Flow Vines

The game

Flow Vines is a botanical puzzle drawn like a page out of an old herbarium: cream parchment, ink-stippled leaves, watercolour blooms. One arrow-key press grows every vine one cell that way at once — so every move is a negotiation between all the plants on the plate. Guide each coloured vine to its own numbered bloom without any stem crossing another, through twelve hand-checked puzzle boxes. Each specimen carries a mock Latin name (Rosa madderi, Cyanus indica…) and gets a red “Specimen Identified” stamp when its plate is mounted.

How to play

• Arrow keys (or W/A/S/D) grow every vine one cell in that direction simultaneously; on phones, swipe the plate instead.
• Each coloured bud must reach the ghost flower with the matching Roman numeral — when it arrives it blooms and stops growing.
• A vine may not cross a stem, its own or another’s, or leave the plate; a blocked press splashes ink and grows nothing.
• Clear all vines to earn the plate stamp and press on to the next of twelve plates; the herbarium closes when all are mounted.
• The plate counts productive presses and keeps your best per plate.
• Z or Backspace undoes the last press, R regrows the plate from scratch, P or Escape pauses, M mutes the plant-quiet chimes.