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.
👆 Playing
Pick a job from the row at the bottom — the number on it is how
many you have left. Then tap the ant you want to do it. That is the whole control.
A job you have run out of is greyed out.
🧠 The answer is a PLACE
This is the one idea the game turns on. You are never fast enough to
react — you have to work out where the job needs to happen and be
waiting there when an ant arrives.
On 🌱 Sprout the first step is marked on the ground for you, so you
can see what "the answer is a place" means before you have to find one.
🧗 Two jobs stick, six do not
Climb and Glide change the ant for good — that ant
climbs, or floats, for the rest of the nest.
The other six are tasks: the ant does them and then goes back to walking
(or runs out of ground).
🪂 A long fall
An ant that falls a long way is dazed and walks home — it is fine,
but it does not count. Nothing dies in this game.
Give it 🪂 Glide first and it floats down instead, however far.
🟫 Soil and ⬛ rock
Brown soil can be dug through by any of the digging jobs. Dark rock never
can. Half of every puzzle is noticing which is which.
🙂 Levels
🌱 Sprout: two short nests, one job each, and the first step
marked. 🧭 Scout: falls too long to survive and gaps too wide to walk. 🏆 Ace: deep pits and rock slabs, and more ants than jobs.
A level sets the switches in ⚙️ Settings; change any and you are
playing your own mix.