Ants come out of the nest and walk. You cannot steer one. All you
can do is give one of them a job, and the jobs are the whole game.
Get enough of them home before the time runs out.
👆 Giving a job
Pick a job from the row at the bottom — the number on it is how
many you have left. 🌱 Sprout: tap the ground to put a marker there. The next ant
that walks onto it takes the job. Tap it again to take it back. 🧭 Scout: tap an ant to give it the job straight away, or tap the
ground for a marker. 🏆 Ace: tap the exact ant. A ring shows which one; let go to give
the job, slide away to cancel.
🧠 The answer is a PLACE
You are never fast enough to react. Work out where the job needs to
happen and be waiting there. On 🌱 Sprout the next step is shown
on the ground as a faint marker.
🧗 Two jobs stick
Climb and Glide change an ant for good, and a marker
for either keeps giving it to every ant that passes while you have some
left. The other jobs are tasks: the ant does it, then walks on.
✋ Stop and 💨 Puff
A Stopper holds the crowd for as long as you like. The only way to move
it is Puff: it counts down from 5, then clears the soil round it,
and the others carry it off. 💥 does that to every ant at once, which is
how you end a nest early.
🌊 Water, sap and arrows
Water sweeps an ant away unless it can 🏊 Swim, or you lay a
🪵 Platform over it. Sap holds fast any ant that touches it. Stop an ant short of it and
💨 Puff it clear. Arrowed soil only gives to a Tunnel or a Slope going the way the
arrows point. 🗼 Stack piles up a wall that turns the crowd, and the stacker walks
on afterwards — unlike a Stopper. 🦘 Jump leaps a short gap; a Jump
marker works for every ant that reaches it.
🪂 A long fall
An ant that falls a long way is lost — it walks home dazed, and it
does not count. Nothing dies in this game. A Glider floats down any drop.
🟫 Soil and ⬛ rock
Brown soil gives to every digging job. Grey rock never does. Half of every
puzzle is noticing which is which.
🗺️ Finding your ants
The camera follows the leading ants and jumps to one about to fall too far.
Drag to look round, pinch to zoom, and 🎯 to follow again. An
arrow at the edge of the screen points at ants you cannot see; tap it to
go there. The map in the corner shows the whole nest.
🕳️ Endless Nest
One nest that keeps going. Every section you get an ant through adds to
your jobs. Ants left far behind are lost, so bring the colony with you.
🙂 Levels
🌱 Sprout: short nests, markers, the next step shown, and ⏪ rewind. 🧭 Scout: longer nests that can climb, and ants you can tap. 🏆 Ace: wide nests, tight budgets, and only the exact ant.
Every nest is new and every one has been played through before you see
it, so each one can be finished.