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Lying Lawn · A practical starting point

Lying Lawn: actual running game, showing the board and controls
The game’s own board and controls. The points below refer to these mechanics.

The rule to keep in mind

Lying Lawn is a one-stroke route puzzle on a 3D garden. Your mower starts on the flag tile and every move goes to a neighbouring tile. Mown grass can never be crossed again, and you clear the lawn by cutting every real tile. Bumping into a birdbath, rock, stump or hedge is free. The catch is that not everything that looks like grass is grass: some tiles are plastic fake turf that jams the mower, a KEEP OFF stake might be standing on a tile you must mow, and the garden gnome’s SAFE sign is usually a lie.

Start with the constraint

Start from the corners and edges you can only reach one way — they decide the route.

Make one useful change

Count the tiles around a blocker before you pass it; dead ends usually hide behind birdbaths.

Keep a way back

The three fake-turf tells are the same on every lawn, so learn them on Lawn 4 and trust your eyes.

A KEEP OFF stake is not a blocker. If the tile under it is real grass, it still has to be mown.

Controls and a safe pause

Move with WASD or the arrow keys. R retries, Enter or Space continues after a clear, Esc opens the stage list, M toggles sound. Tap a tile next to the mower or swipe in a direction. Use the on-screen Retry, Next, Stages and Sound buttons.

Open the game’s menu to pause and find its save tools. This game has no export tool; keep browser data to retain its progress. If a step feels unclear, return to the rule and the current goal rather than rushing.

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