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LullalotlScreenshot Saturday

Six snapshots from Moonlit Hollow

· The Turbo Pudding team · 4 min read

A round night pond with a dark green bank, cattails and little flowers, where two pale blue ice floes float near the top and a third glows with a bright white ripple near the bottom, while four friends sit on lily pads: Prism, an orange fox kit with dragonfly wings, at the top, a sparkling green Pip on the left, Echo, a lilac critter with an orange shell, on the right, and Twinkle, a yellow mouse with antennae, at the bottom right, with Lulla, the pink axolotl, smiling on the bank below

Moonlit Hollow has ten ponds, and in every one of them Lulla has the same job. She’s a little pink axolotl who can’t sing, but her tail makes ripples, and the ripples wake the friends who can. Every song makes Glow, and when a pond has enough Glow, its Moon wakes up.

For this Screenshot Saturday, we visited six of those ponds and took a snapshot in each, right as a ripple went out. The one at the top is from Frost Mirror, the eighth pond, where Glim, the firefly granny, warns: “Ice! Ripples bounce right back.” A ripple that reaches an ice floe gets passed on, a little weaker, but the ice itself doesn’t sing. Prism, the fox kit with dragonfly wings, sits in the middle, and its ripple is a rainbow: everyone it touches sings triple.

Lily Cradle: where it starts

The first pond is the gentlest. Glim greets Lulla with a hint: “Psst, little one. Your tail makes ripples. Try it!” Here every lotus bud hatches a Pip, a green bunny with a leaf on top. A Pip sings when a ripple touches it and sends out a ripple of its own, so one tap can wake the whole pond if the Pips sit close enough. When the Moon wakes, Pip can’t contain itself: “I can SING again! Again! Again!”

A round night pond with a dark green bank, cattails and little purple, yellow and white flowers, where three Pips, green bunnies with long ears and a leaf on top, sit on lily pads in a triangle and sing with sparkles around them, a wide white ripple ring spreading between them, while Lulla, a pink axolotl with pink frilly gills and a big smile, sits on the bank at the bottom
Searched “cozy idle game pond.” Three Pips, all singing at once.

Bubble Bend: someone big

In the second pond, Glim hears something: “Someone big is snoring under the bubbles.” The big voice here belongs to Bloop, a round blue critter with a fish tail and a little fountain on its head. Bloop has a big voice, so its ripples reach much further than a Pip’s. When the Moon wakes, Bloop is pleased: “Mmm... that was a good, deep song.”

Two green Pips and two Bloops, round blue critters with fish tails, sit on four lily pads in a dark blue pond, the Bloops splashing tiny fountains of water over their heads as they sing, a big white ripple ring circling all four, with cattails on the green bank and Lulla, the pink axolotl, smiling at the bottom edge
Typed “cute blue fish game.” This one has a fountain on top.

Pebble Steps: go around

The fourth pond has two big stones, and they matter. Glim explains: “Stones stop ripples. Go around them, dear.” A friend hiding behind a stone won’t hear a ripple from the other side, so where everyone sits really counts here.

This pond belongs to Twinkle, a yellow mouse with two glowing antennae. Twinkle lights the way: every friend after it in a chain sings sweeter. When the Moon wakes, Twinkle can hardly believe it: “I... I made the dark a little lighter? Oh my.”

A night pond with two round gray stones, one near the top and one in the middle on the right, and four friends on lily pads between them: Twinkle, a yellow mouse with two glowing antennae, in the center, a green Pip on the left, a teal Leap splashing on the right and a blue Bloop at the bottom, with white ripple rings spreading around them and Lulla, the pink axolotl, on the bank below
Search: “idle game where rocks block things.” Found two, very stubborn.

Snoozy Shallows: lilies that nap

The sixth pond is the sleepiest one. Glim sighs: “Even the lilies are too sleepy to open.” Two of the friends sit on night lilies, with pink-and-white petals around the pad. For about two and a half seconds of every twelve, a night lily closes and the friend on it dozes, so it’s worth waiting for the petals to open.

In the middle sits Dozy, a peach kitten shaped like a loaf, in a purple nightcap. Dozy counts its songs, and after five ripples it yawns a giant wave three times the size. When the Moon finally wakes, Dozy asks: “*Yaaawn*... did I miss anything?”

Five friends in a dark blue pond: in the middle Dozy, a peach loaf-shaped kitten in a purple nightcap with a row of little dots over its head, sits on a lily pad inside a double ripple ring; on the left Echo, a lilac cat-eared critter with an orange shell, and at the top right a teal Leap both sit on night lilies with pink-and-white petals, a green Pip sparkles on the right and a glowing yellow Twinkle sings below, with Lulla, the pink axolotl, on the bank
People also ask: do flowers nap? In this pond, yes.

Dandelion Drift: going with the flow

The seventh pond has a current, and Glim has advice: “The current is strong. Let it carry the song.” The water carries ripples and anything in flight along with it.

That includes seeds. Puff is a fluffy cream chick with a crown of dandelion seeds. When a ripple reaches Puff, it sneezes, and three seeds fly off and start three new ripples. You can guess what Puff says when the Moon wakes: “Ah-choo! Sorry! Happy ah-choo!” In the snapshot, Dozy is two songs into its five, and the dots over its nightcap keep count.

A night pond with faint lines of current on the water and four friends on lily pads: Puff, a round cream chick with a little orange beak and a ring of white dandelion seeds around its head, at the top left; Echo, lilac with an orange shell, singing at the top right; a blue Bloop on the left; and Dozy, the peach kitten in a purple nightcap, in the middle with five little dots over its head, two of them lit yellow, inside a white ripple ring, with Lulla, the pink axolotl, smiling on the bank
Search history: “dandelion chick,” then “why does it keep sneezing.”

Lullalotl has ten ponds in Moonlit Hollow, and the first two are free to play in your browser at lullalotl.com. The full game, all ten ponds, is $4.99, paid once. More about the game is on its Lullalotl page.

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