Little Hives: Mines

Little Hives is the classic mines puzzle moved into a garden. Every square is a bush, and some bushes hide a beehive. Prune every bush that has none, and leave the bees in peace. No board ever needs a guess. Every hive can be worked out from the numbers. HOW IT PLAYS • Tap a bush to prune it. Hold to plant a flag where you think a hive is. • Where a bush was, the lawn shows how many hives are in the eight squares around it. • The first cut is always safe and always opens a clearing. • Tap a number that has all its flags to prune everything else around it. A GARDENER WHO KNOWS THE HEDGE The gardener is a hedgehog with hedge shears. Stuck? Ask, for one jar of honey: it points at a square that is certain, shows the numbers that prove it and says why. It never looks inside a bush for you, and if one of your flags is wrong it says that first. AS BIG AS YOUR SCREEN Three levels: Beginner,…