Gardener — free browser game

Gardener is an original garden-management game; a small but intense browser simulation in which you manage a six-plot garden with a single click. Your goal is to water and ripen the plants right on time and rack up as high a score as possible — but each plant's visible thirst bar keeps dropping, and after five plants dry out the garden ends. Click an empty plot to plant a seed; the orange thirst bar beneath the plot then falls over time. As the bar drops you tap the plot again to water it: after the first watering a sprout grows, and after the second the plant matures and a fruit icon appears on it. Tapping a plot with fruit earns points according to what you harvest — 5 for a weed, 15 for an apple, and 50 for the rare golden flower; the moment you harvest, the plot becomes empty again and the cycle restarts. Strategy tip: the thirst rate differs from plot to plot, so watch how fast each bar falls and give priority to the one drying out fastest; also, rather than opening all six plots at once, plant them three at a time in stages so you can keep the watering rounds turning over without overlapping. Because it blends logic and patience, it suits children as a logic game and adults as a short break-time simulation. The R key or the 'Restart' button opens a new garden.