A garden at dusk seen from above: grass, ferns, white flowers and red mushrooms, with small lanterns glowing among them.

lantern grove

A cozy logic puzzle game for your phone

Find the hidden lanterns. The garden will wait.

  • Every garden has exactly one solution
  • Lots of gardens to explore, plus one daily garden for everyone
  • No account to make, and you can play without a connection
  • Coming soon to the App Store
  • Coming soon on Google Play
See how to play
Meadowsweet Clearing, a daily garden: a seven by seven board of coral, teal, amber and pink areas, with two lanterns found and patches marked with an X.

A look around the garden

  • Foxglove Hollow, a six by six board with two lanterns found and many patches marked with an X.
    Foxglove Hollow, two lanterns in
  • Deepwood Gully with a tip open at the bottom of the screen, saying this row’s lantern is somewhere in the glow.
    A tip narrows a row down to a small glow
  • The tutorial’s first step on a small four by four garden, with one glowing cell to double-tap.
    A short tutorial teaches the rules
  • The daily garden Mooncap Arc, a seven by seven board of coral, teal, pink and amber areas among red mushrooms, with two lanterns found.
    The daily garden, a bigger seven by seven
  • The win screen: three glowing lanterns above a kitten wearing a leaf, and the words Every lantern is glowing.
    Every lantern lit, and your avatar is delighted

How to play

  1. One little light in each

    Every row, column and coloured area holds exactly one lantern, and lanterns never touch, not even diagonally.

  2. Mark what can’t be

    Tap to mark a patch of grass with an X, or drag to mark several. It’s how you keep track of your thinking, and marks are free.

  3. Search where it must be

    Double-tap to search a patch. A wrong search costs one of your three lights, so search when you’re sure. If you get stuck, a tip points you towards the next step and a hint lights a lantern for you.

Read the full rules

Why you’ll like it

Logic, never luck

Every garden has exactly one solution, so there’s always a way to think your way there. The boards get bigger and trickier as you go.

A little you, no account

There’s no account to make. The game gives you a playful name and a woodland avatar, and you can change both. Your progress stays on your phone.

Contains ads

Lantern Grove shows a short ad when you ask for an extra hint or tip, and now and then between gardens. There are no banners, and no ads on the home screen or while you’re solving.

Guides

Short reads for a quiet moment, from the very first rule to the patterns that crack a stubborn garden.

All guides

Wander into the meadow

Every garden has its own name and look, from eight garden families of moss, stone, fern, mushroom and more. The boards get bigger as you go.

  • The Moonlit Meadow
  • Foxglove Hollow
  • The Starlight Sanctuary
  • Fern Garden
  • Mushroom Grove
  • Flower Clearing
  • Stone Garden
  • Mossy Clearing
The home screen: the Lantern Grove title above a garden, with rows to enter the garden and light today’s garden.

Light today’s garden

There’s one daily garden, the same for everyone, and a new one each day at midnight UTC. Solve it day after day to build a streak.

More about the daily garden

The Weekly Gardens leaderboard, with the player sixth on a list of gardeners with small woodland avatars and points. This is an example board.

A weekly board, no account

First wins and daily gardens earn points on a leaderboard that starts fresh every week. There’s no account to make: the game gives you a playful name and a woodland avatar, and you can change both. Other players can see them on the board.

Example board. The names and points are made up.