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The core strategy of Primrows comes from pattern matching. There are four basic patterns that let you place four of the same flower without any two being in the same row, column, or quadrant, and if you want to aim for high scores, youll want to get familiar with them. Weve given them nicknames to help you recognize them.
The Pinwheel:
The Bolt:
The Mountain:
The Corner:
If youre trying for the elusive Prize Garden, figure out the ways that these patterns can link together with each other. There are several ways to do thisdont forget that you can flip and rotate these patterns, too. Heres an example that uses one pinwheel, one bolt, and two (sideways) mountains:
Making Your Own Luck
Once youve got a grasp on the patterns, you can use them to make decisions about the chance elements of the game. Lets look at an example from Journal Play. Youve just watered your garden, and youve grown these flowers:
There are two basic strategies you can take here. The most obvious one is to look at the three happy one-petal blue flowers and try to complete the pinwheel pattern, pruning like so:
And if youre down to your last water, this is the smartest move you can make. Even though your odds of getting a fourth blue flower are a bit of a long-shot, youre guaranteed at least 30 points because youre not doing anything to risk those happy blue flowers.
However if you have two water left, theres a better move on the board: trimming away three of those sleeping four-petal orange flowers to reveal the already-complete corner pattern.
Its a bigger risk, because you arent guaranteed any points this way. But if you sit down and crunch the numbers, thenas long as youre not on your last waterthis is going to be the higher-scoring strategy in the long run.
There are, of course, endless wrinkles to the specifics of the strategy, especially in a situation where there arent just two clear options to pick from. Trying to calculate the perfect strategy for any given garden quickly becomes a headache, but you can get a pretty high score relying on vibes. Just remember, trying to complete a partial pattern is the safe-and-steady option, and trying to trim away extra flowers from a complete pattern is the high-risk/high-reward option.
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