Welcome to the meadow
Find your way into the Grove.
A growing pile of games, just sitting here — you might as well look around. I hear there's a magpie who pays in gold just for giving one a try.
A growing pile of games, just sitting here — you might as well look around. I hear there's a magpie who pays in gold just for giving one a try.
If we need to be at school anyway, might as well make it a bit fun, right?
Screen time, but for good reasons.
Every game in the grove is built to teach or reinforce something real — how to type without looking, how to size up a swarm at a glance, how to find the pattern hiding in a row of shapes. No, this isn't going to be as fun as scrolling (doom or otherwise) — but it also won't harvest your data to sell to advertisers, so there's a benefit. The fun is in the learning, and besides, the only way to begin is by beginning. I hear she pays out the score in gold, too — and only counts the trying.
About how many?
Lanternflies are everywhere. It's best not to count them. Glance, trust your eye, slide to your best guess — then reveal the real number. This sharpens your visual estimation, which'll come in handy next time you need to size up your candy hoard. Give it a try — or don't, it's entirely up to you. This is just one bite of Swarm Scout.
Liked that? Play the full Swarm Scout → · or enter the Grove to keep your Witcoin.
The free ones.
Three you can play right now — no sign-in, no account, your score just stays on this machine. There are more waiting inside the Grove once you sign in. Start wherever. Or nowhere. Genuinely up to you.
Learn to type by feeding the shrimp. Home row up to whole sentences, at whatever pace you want.
Type the word on each pest before it reaches the tank. Same typing, more chaos.
Guess the swarm, then check yourself. Estimation — for your future candy-counting needs.
Free play is just for fun — your score stays on this device and isn't saved to your Witcoin. Sign in inside the Grove to keep track.
Witcoin.
The magpie pays in Witcoin, and she's picky about it: she counts showing up, finishing what you start, and beating your own best. Not speed. Not beating anybody else. Sign in and it follows you around the Grove. Spending it on something good is still a work in progress — I'll be honest, the store's not built yet. But the gold's real, and it's already counting.
Your garden.
Sign in and you get a garden — a quiet picture of what you've been tending across the Grove. Plots grow when you keep showing up and beat your own best. It never ranks you against anyone; it's just yours. Water a bare plot whenever you feel like it. Or let it sit — it'll wait.
Either's fine. The free games are right up there. The rest — your Witcoin, your garden, the whole Grove — is one sign-in away.
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