

These sale bundles are always much better deals than the in-app store, but even these vary in quality. The offer will pop up in the garden and then be available via a “sale” icon for a limited time (usually about an hour). We do not recommend buying directly from the shop, however.While playing, you’ll randomly be offered sales on bundles of coins-we usually get an offer once or twice a week. While the game can be played without making any purchases, coins accrue slowly from in-game activities and buying some extra can help out a lot on hard levels. At this time, New Acres’ only available in-app purchases are for consumable packs of coins. If you want to buy coins, wait for a sale.

It’s sort of like Battleship: you should be able to see a gnome, know what direction it’s facing, and even figure out its size by looking at just a few dark green tiles near each other. You can see the white of gnomes through the thin areas of the darker green tiles when trying to find them (on a replay or otherwise), match lighter green tiles once then peek to see if they’re underneath. The lighter green tiles require two matches to be cleared, but they turn into the darker green after the first match. There are two levels of grass in the game: the lighter green, extra thick tiles and the darker green, thin tiles. And remember, you can see gnomes through thin grass.However, on our next attempt of this level there was no gnome in this spot and there was one instead in the bottom-right corner. In the image above, level 91, you can see a small gnome in the upper-left corner. So don’t put all your efforts into clearing the same grass as last time-rediscover the gnomes first by clearing strategic sections of the board to figure out where they’ve gone to. There is almost always more grass than there are gnomes, and the gnomes can potentially be found under any section of the grass. If you fail a match-3 level that requires you to uncover gnomes hidden in grass, the next time you replay the level, the gnomes will not necessarily be in the same location. Gnomes move around the match-3 levels.If you open the news feed and exit, the orange dots should go away.) (However, there is currently a bug where everything will be orange-dotted when you first open the game. You don’t need to keep up-to-date on the feed to continue upgrading the garden.If you see an orange dot, it means there is a new message from one of the characters on the social media feed. All of this is just for fun and to give you more information on the cast of characters-if you don’t care about the NPCs you can ignore the social media part and just check the current garden tasks on the “To Do” portion of Austin’s tablet menu. His friends/family/neighbors will respond to and like posts in the in-game newsfeed, add Austin as a friend, post their own updates, etc. Austin will often post news or pictures to his social media feed within the main menu. The “social media” aspects are just for fun.Technically you don’t have to fix the garden at all-you could just play match-3 levels, earn stars, but then never use those stars to help Austin rebuild the estate, but where’s the fun in that? Although you can spend stars as soon as you get them since you’ll always have a task on deck, you can also save them up and complete a lot of tasks all in a row for a faster sense of progress. Stars are only earned by completing the match-3 levels-one star per completed level.

In order to complete garden tasks like installing benches, fixing the treehouse, etc., you’ll need to spend stars.
