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FluffendersScreenshot Saturday

Six snapshots from the meadow and the woods

· The Turbo Pudding team · 4 min read

Moonberry Meadow, Rolly Bowling night: on a bright green lawn of square tiles crossed by a red dashed line on the left, Rollys, hedgehogs curled into spiky balls with sleepy smiling faces, roll toward the Grumps, a golden one in the middle and a brown one lower down; purple Grumplets with dark tufts and droopy red eyes stand in the rows, two of them wearing brown acorn caps, one Grumplet is already fast asleep with a little zzz above its head, and a third Rolly has just bonked the acorn-capped Grump in the middle row

Fluffenders has twenty nights, ten in Moonberry Meadow and ten in the Whispering Woods. Every night the Grumps, grumpy fuzzballs who can’t sleep a wink, march on the burrow under the Moonberry Tree, and the Fluffs tuck them in with bubbles, sneezes and cuddles. For this Screenshot Saturday, we picked six nights and took one snapshot in each.

The picture at the top is Night 5, Rolly Bowling. There’s no stardust to spend on this night. Instead, Rollys, little hedgehogs curled up into spiky balls, arrive one by one, and you roll them from behind the red line. A Rolly that bonks a Grump bounces off at an angle into the next row and keeps going, so one good roll can catch two Grumps, and the game counts it: “2×.” About one Rolly in eight is golden, and “A golden Rolly goes BOOM!”, sending every Grump close by, in its own row and the rows above and below, to sleep. Acorn caps are tougher. A plain Rolly knocks the cap clean off, and the Grump underneath stays awake, just without its hat.

Night 1: First Night

The first night is a single lane. There’s one card, the Bubbun, a bunny with a bubble wand, and 150 stardust to start, enough for one Bubbun at 100. More stardust falls from the sky, and Granny Hoot, the owl who shows you the ropes, explains: “Tap the falling stardust to collect it!” A Bubbun blows a sleepy bubble about every second and a half, and a Grumplet needs fourteen of them before it drifts off on its own little cloud.

Moonberry Meadow at night, with only the middle lane of the lawn lit and the rows above and below in darker green: three white Bubbuns, bunnies with pink inner ears and yellow bubble wands, stand in a row on the left, the third one blowing a stream of shiny bubbles; a glowing smiling star of stardust floats over the first bunny, a hedgehog peeks in from the left edge, a purple Grumplet sleeps on a white cloud in the middle with a little zzz above its head, and a second, wide-awake Grumplet with a frown and droopy red eyes stands behind it on the right
Searched “easy tower defense for kids.” Night one: one lane.

Night 6: Boing Boing

Night 6 brings the Pogo Grump, who “bounces right over the first Fluff in its way.” Until that jump, it moves almost twice as fast as a regular Grump. Once it lands, it slows down to the usual pace. So a Woolly up front makes a fine thing to jump over: the jump gets spent on the sheep, and the Pogo Grump lands slow. Later, in the woods, there’s a Fluff no pogo can clear, Stumpy Beaver, a stump too tall to jump.

Moonberry Meadow: a frowning purple Pogo Grump balances on an orange spring right on top of Woolly, a round white sheep with a dark face, in the middle of the bright green lawn; a single bubble floats toward them, and on the left a column of gray Twinkle Mice with pink ears hold little star lanterns next to a column of white Bubbuns with yellow bubble wands
Typed “why did the grump jump over the sheep.” Pogo.

Night 7: Pillow Fight

The Pillow Grump hides behind a pink pillow stitched with a heart and a little z. Bubbles stop on it, and it takes about eight to pop it. And then, as the game warns, “the Grump gets very cross and very fast,” turning pink and walking about twice as fast as before. This is also the night the Frostkit, a white fox kit in a blue scarf, joins the team. “Snowflakes slow the Grumps down!”, which is exactly what a cross Grump needs.

Moonberry Meadow: on the left, a column of hedgehogs by the burrow, a column of gray Twinkle Mice with star lanterns and two columns of white Bubbuns with bubble wands, with the Frostkit, a fluffy white fox kit in a blue striped scarf, standing in the middle row; on the right, a frosty pale blue Grump has just lost its pink pillow, which flies off with its stitched heart and z, a Pillow Grump below still hides behind its pillow, a plain Grumplet walks beside it, and at the top a cross pink Grump with no pillow left glares at the bunnies
People also ask: can a pillow be a shield? Briefly.

Night 12: Firefly Glade

In the Whispering Woods, the trees close in overhead, and only half as much stardust falls from the sky. The answer is Lumi, a cheap little firefly who glows a bit of stardust, then more once she grows up. Night 12 also brings the Bark Shield Grump, who holds up a bark plank that stops bubbles and acorns. Granny Hoot’s advice: “That plank stops bubbles! Sneeze or gulp it!” Gulpy Frog goes for the second option. It reaches about a square and a half ahead, plank or no plank, and gulps the Grump into a sleepy bubble. Then it needs a long nap.

The Whispering Woods, on a darker blue-green lawn: Gulpy Frog, a round green frog with a leaf on its head, shoots out a long pink tongue at a frowning purple Bark Shield Grump hiding behind a tall wooden plank with a little sprout on top; two more Bark Shield Grumps stand on the right, an acorn flies toward one of them, and on the left a column of blue Lumi Fireflies with glowing yellow tails, two white Bubbuns and an orange squirrel holding an acorn wait in their squares
Search: “frog game tongue.” This one skips the plank.

Night 17: Tunnel Trouble

The Digger Grump wears a yellow hard hat and doesn’t bother with the front door. It digs in from the far edge of the lawn, faster than a Grump can walk, and nothing can touch it underground. Then it pops up three squares from the burrow, well past the front of your lawn. Granny Hoot has a tip: “Try Prickles or Moles.” Prickles Hedgehog lies flat on the grass, never gets nibbled and pokes every Grump that walks over it. Put one right where a Digger comes up, and it gets a sharp hello the moment it climbs out.

The Whispering Woods: a purple Digger Grump in a yellow hard hat with a lamp climbs out of the ground with a little shovel, dirt flying around it, right on top of Prickles, a lilac hedgehog lying flat with its spines up and a tiny mushroom on its back; just behind them a brown Pinecone Owlet with a pinecone cap on its head squeezes its eyes shut as a pinecone flies up, Woolly the sheep stands above, and on the left blue Lumi Fireflies with glowing tails, white Bubbuns and smiling stars of stardust line the first columns, with hedgehogs by the burrow at the edge
Search history: “lawn game,” then “who dug that hole.”

The first two nights of Fluffenders are free to play in your browser at fluffenders.com. The full game, all twenty nights, is $4.99, paid once. More about the game is on its Fluffenders page.

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