Gold trophy:
To unlock the Gold trophy, collect all the trophies in Mini-Games, Puzzle, and Survival modes.
Silver trophy:
To unlock the Silver trophy, complete Adventure mode.
Easy money:
Get
the Zen Garden. Water the plants until they do not need anything else.
Advance the system date ahead. The plants will need water again. Buy new
plants, grow them to full size, then sell them. Repeat this to earn
more money. You can also use this technique when you have to get
Marigolds in Crazy Dave’s shop when they are out of stock.
Set
up your defenses around the slot machine. Try for one row of walnuts on
the right side, one or two rows of sunflowers on the left, and fill
everything else with pea and snow pea shooters. Protect the lawn mowers.
Each is worth a Gold Coin at the end of the game; do not let them mow
the zombies. Stop collecting sun at about 1,900 sun points. At this
point, the garden should be full; getting the extra 100 points to win
should be easy. Just collect enough sun to offset the slot machine. Keep
the slot machine spinning. It will randomly drop one or three gems as
long your patience lasts. If the zombies get close to the mowers, end
the game. Just collect the sun lying on the field to end the game.
Use
the following trick to make Walnut Bowling more profitable. Protect the
lawnmowers. Each mower is worth one gold coin ($250). Line up shots off
the front runner. After the first zombie is hit, each additional zombie
strike generates coins. Create a front runner where none already
exists.Pole vaulting zombies will run fast until they vault over a nut,
and the newspaper zombie runs fast after getting the paper destroyed by a
nut. Let them run a short distance down the lawn before sending a nut
their way. You do not need to use nuts. When there are a few zombies
ambling down the lawn without a clear ricochet shot, wait some time to
see if more of them will step out to play. They can always be killed
once they cross the red line. Remember how many nuts it takes to kill a
zombie. This is important when they cross the red line. Use one nut for
regular zombies, three for bucket wearing zombies, and two for the
others. Keep the exploding nuts in reserve. Try not to use them unless a
mob crosses the line or there are not enough nuts or room to clear out a
difficult to kill zombie. Use the regular walnuts for the zombies that
have not reached the red line. Do not use exploding nuts to kill pole
vaulting zombies directly. Pole vaulting zombies only jump obstacles in
their own lane. A pole vaulting zombie who has not vaulted yet will
safely jump over explosions or nuts in their own lane. Find a neighbor
in the next lane and time the nut to hit when the pole vaulting zombie
gets close to the neighbor.
New seed selection:
If you do not like the cards from Crazy Dave, exit the game and restart. The cards will change randomly.
Increase plant growth:
Disable
full screen mode. Go to your zen garden. After feeding the plants, it
will normally take thirty minutes to feed them again. To feed them all,
change the system time to an earlier value. This will increase their
growth.
“Dr. Zomboss”: Easy completion:
When Dr.
Zomboss comes down to throw an ice ball or fire ball, you can use Freeze
Shrooms to freeze him. This allows your various pults time to get some
damage on Dr. Zomboss himself. Jalapenos will also cause damage to him
when he is down to toss a fire or ice ball. The more damage you can do
to Dr. Zomboss, the faster and easier it is to end this level. Save at
least one Freeze Shroom and one Jalapeno for whatever he tosses.
“Last Stand”: Easy completion:
You
must have at least eight slots of seed before starting. Choose the
following plants: Repeaters, Gatling Peas, Tall Nuts, Tangle Kelps, Lily
Pads, Torchwoods, Coffee Beans, and Magnet-Shrooms, After you pick them
up, set up the following layout. Put two Repeaters from the back
columns on every row (except the pool). Put only one Repeater on the
back columns on every pool row (use Lily Pads first). Change the
Repeaters on the pool to become Gatling Peas Put Torchwoods in front of
the Repeaters and Gatling Peas (on the pool use Lily Pads first). Then,
give the space a column and plant the Magnet-Shrooms on the lawn only.
Wake them up with Coffee Beans. In front of the Magnet-Shrooms on the
lawn, plant the Tall Nuts. Note: Plant the Tangle Kelps on the last
time. The layout should appear as follows.
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