# New game from the people who brought you "GROW". **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372 "2004-03-20T08:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/1 "2004-03-20T08:12:57Z")
[I give you “Vanilla”.](http://www.eyezmaze.com/vanilla/) The best I have gotten so far is 31.7 ft. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/2 "2004-03-20T13:39:57Z")
I like that it lets you rest between ‘spurts’. 34.9 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/3 "2004-03-20T13:57:59Z")
53.0 and I’m calling it a night. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/4 "2004-03-20T15:01:26Z")
13.5 …So, what in the hells are you supposed to do, anyway?? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/5 "2004-03-20T17:58:04Z")
Uh, call me a dolt, but I don’t get it. I got the part about clicking on the planter thing to grow the bush, and clicking on the bush to grow an extension…but is there a point? Or strategy? Or something that I should be doing to get my bush higher than 8.5 feet? Happy ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/6 "2004-03-20T18:52:59Z")
5.5 feet. WTF? I don’t get it either. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/7 "2004-03-20T20:16:14Z")
Yeah, when it starts to topple, you have to click on the underside of the direction of the toppling to straighten it back up again. If that makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Really](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Noone\_Really](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Really)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/8 "2004-03-20T20:17:57Z")
You have to stop the plant from touching the sides. If you click off the centre of the plant, that part will move away from where you clicked. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/9 "2004-03-20T20:33:40Z")
A measly 11.8 feet… _sigh_ My plant grows all wonky. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/10 "2004-03-20T22:34:31Z")
Okay, after clicking like a madman, I’ve found the actual “how to play” solution. Click on the flashing parts - they’ll flash in order of the pot, then the lowest bush, then the next, all the way up. If you let it sit for too long, the “flash” will fall back down to the pot and you’ll have to start that clickfest over. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/11 "2004-03-20T22:42:38Z")
21.6 ill be back for more tomorrow… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-from-the-people-who-brought-you-grow/235372/12 "2004-03-21T00:13:00Z")
36.4 Nice game - it gets trickier as it goes to more than can be seen without scrolling. Somebody tell me what GROW is all about - it looks like there’s a ‘correct’ sequence of adding the items, is that it?