# XKCD 1663 Garden **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195 "2016-04-04T19:50:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/1 "2016-04-04T19:50:51Z")
[New XKCD](http://xkcd.com/1663/)is some sort of game. I don’t get it. You can position three lights, change the direction, beam width and colour as you like … and then what? Nothing happens for a while, then it crashes. It shows the message “Loading” and doesn’t seem to go beyond that. one time a little tree appeared. Nothing else happened. Then it crashed. And the mouseover text is “Relax.” Anyone figure it out? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/2 "2016-04-04T19:55:38Z")
Lucky you, all I get is the “Loading” message. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/3 "2016-04-04T19:56:31Z")
It loaded for me once this morning but nothing else happened. Ever since its been stuck. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/4 "2016-04-04T20:01:37Z")
Got the lights burning, but nothing’s growing. Maybe it’s in real time? ETA Now there’s a deer and a woman on it. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/5 "2016-04-04T20:03:51Z")
From [XKCD Explained](http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1663): > [@](#): > > This is this year’s April fools’ comic in celebration of April Fools’ Day. Due to technical problems (or to make fools of his fans?) the comic did not go live until Sunday evening (after midnight) so there was no Friday release, and this may be the Monday release instead of the planned comic (as to not take attention from this.) So in this way there were only two comics last week, the first time since xkcd went live on [xkcd.com](http://xkcd.com). > > If you leave the lights on and wait (or relax) then the plants in your garden start to grow slowly. The plants appear one at a time slowly, but only a few of them actually grow. There is a large tree that does, but most other plants just appear. Some of the plants sway in the breeze. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/6 "2016-04-04T20:04:45Z")
I had luck. I got two birdbaths, two deer, a rabbit, a bunch of turtles, 3-4 bushes, and two trees that swayed in the breeze. Then it crashed. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/7 "2016-04-04T20:05:28Z")
I’ve had it running for about 7-8 minutes now. I have a tree swaying in the wind, and what might be a turtle next to it. If it is a turtle, it’s pretty big in relation to the tree (or the tree is small). You can click on the items that appear, but I think the only thing you can with them is delete them. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/8 "2016-04-04T20:59:45Z")
I’ve had it running for a little while now. I’ve got a cat and a desk with a chair. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/9 "2016-04-04T21:06:52Z")
What with the mention of April Fool’s, I was convinced it was a prank, as it took a LONG time for anything at all to happen. I tried it in two different browsers running at the same time. After about half an hour all I had in the Safari window was two turtles. I had a turtle and a couple of sprouts going in Chrome, but when I came back to it after a while I found two of the lights gone and only one tree, no turtle. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/10 "2016-04-04T22:06:33Z")
Other people have probably figured this out but you can adjust the color of the light from blue to red by clicking on the lamp and moving the dial. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/11 "2016-04-04T23:03:44Z")
After starting over and letting it run for an hour and a half, I’ve got two Mars probes and a cactus all overlapping, a third Mars probe by itself, a turtle, and something that looks like a lamppost with no light on it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/12 "2016-04-04T23:29:47Z")
I have a medium sized tree with full leaves, a large tree with no leaves, some small stems with no leaves or flowers, a cat, two rabbits, a woman, and what appears to be three park benches. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/13 "2016-04-05T00:04:08Z")
I now have a second woman, a bird, a balloon, and an octopus. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/14 "2016-04-05T01:38:29Z")
I have two trees…and a gallows. wtf? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/15 "2016-04-05T02:06:40Z")
[…this is mine at the moment:](http://bigmark.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Garden/G0000MbGLL8BCuLg/I0000X3fpodK8tUo/C0000bkBPxuqEblQ) new things literally getting added everytime I revisit. Interestingly enough: I accidentally grabbed the tab this was on and removed it from the rest of the Chrome tabs, and everything disappeared. (But the lights stayed in the same place.) I placed it back with the other tabs and everything reappeared again. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/16 "2016-04-05T02:28:11Z")
Possibly the idea is to have red, green, and blue lights (for white light) overlapping the largest possible area? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/17 "2016-04-05T02:29:50Z")
I had a cactus with a turtle on top of it, a desk, a cat, some grass, then crashola. Haven’t got back to it. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/18 "2016-04-05T03:38:26Z")
Seriously, what the fuck is with all the gallowses? The first one turned into a cross, and then started growing branches and leaves. Now there’s another gallows. Am I the only one getting gallowses? Is this a message? Have I offended Randall somehow? [xkcd: Garden](http://xkcd.com/1663/#c65421c0-facb-11e5-8001-42010a8e0018) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/19 "2016-04-05T03:46:00Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Possibly the idea is to have red, green, and blue lights (for white light) overlapping the largest possible area? You can also adjust the beam from wide to narrow. I wonder if different things grow in different light. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195/20 "2016-04-05T03:52:43Z")
I got a bird, but then I clicked on it and made it go away. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1663-garden/751195.md?page=2)