Treptes Pet Garden: the star battle puzzle with cute animals
A logic puzzle with cute animals, in the family of star battle puzzles and the classic queens puzzle. Every puzzle can be solved with logic alone, and every hint explains the reasoning.
How to play
The board is split into colored gardens. Put one animal in every row, every column and every garden. Two animals never touch, not even diagonally. Start with the small gardens, and the rest follows step by step.
How to play:
- The first tap on a cell marks it with an X (no animal here).
- The second tap puts an animal there and fills in an X on every cell where no other animal can go: its neighbors, its row, its column and its garden.
- The third tap empties the cell (the X’s filled in for it go away too).
- You can also empty a cell by holding it, or with a right click on a computer.
What makes it different
- Hints that teach. A hint shows the next logical step in stages and names the technique. Techniques you discover are collected in your profile.
- A puzzle for your level. Three quick questions and two placement puzzles set your starting rating. After that, your rating moves with every game you finish.
- Daily Challenge. One shared puzzle a day, at the right difficulty for you, with streaks and a calendar of the days you solved.
- Worlds full of animals. The farm for everyone; with Premium, three more worlds with forest, wild and sea animals, a different world for every puzzle.
- Ads that respect the game. Never during a puzzle, never on pause, and the first new game of the day is always ad-free.
Difficulty levels
Each level has its own board size and needs a deeper kind of logic. Every puzzle has exactly one solution, and you never have to guess.
- Easy
- 6×6. Last spots and gardens that lie in one row or column.
- Medium
- 8×8. Blocking: a cell that would leave a garden without room stays empty.
- Hard
- 10×10. Groups of gardens that fill as many rows or columns.
- Genius
- 10×10 with two animals in every row, column and garden. Still pure logic, never a guess.
Frequently asked questions
Is Treptes Pet Garden free?
Yes. Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles, the Daily Challenge, your rating, medals and statistics are free. Premium adds the Genius level, three more animal worlds, unlimited hints and no ads.
Do I need an account?
No. You can play straight away and your progress is saved in your browser. With a free Treptes account, your progress follows you on all your devices, the same account as in our other games.
Can every puzzle be solved without guessing?
Yes. Every puzzle is checked when it is created: it has exactly one solution, and it must be solvable step by step with techniques our hints can explain.
What is the Daily Challenge?
One new puzzle every day, at a difficulty that matches your level. Solve it every day to build a streak.
How do hints work?
If an animal or an X is in the wrong place, the hint points to it first. Otherwise it shows you the next logical step in stages: where to look, why, and finally the animal to place or the cells to cross out, with the name of the technique.
How does the rating work?
Your rating shows your level, from Newcomer to Master. Your first puzzles set where you start. After that, every finished game moves it up or down by at most 25 points: a puzzle that is hard for your level earns more, an easy one less. The first 10 games are for calibration and are scored double.
Mistakes and hints lower what you earn, speed adds or takes off a little, and a solve with no mistakes and no hints never lowers your rating. Starting a new game while another one is unfinished counts as abandoning it.