Sarmio Vines

Every sheet in Sarmio Vines was laid out flat before it was tangled. That single fact is what makes the puzzle fair, and it is worth knowing before your first camp. **Why every tangle can be undone** Each sheet starts as a drawing in which no two vine stems cross. The game then picks up the free seed pods and scatters them, leaving the stems attached. Nothing is cut or added, so the uncrossed drawing still exists — your job is to find it again, or any other arrangement where the stems lie clear of each other. **What you actually do** Drag a seed pod. Its stems stretch and follow. Where two stems cross, a knot mark appears and the stems turn dry and thorny; when they come apart, the leaves return. A stem that runs straight through someone else's pod counts as a knot too, and that pod gets a ring around it. The counter at the top shows how many knots are left. At zero, the sheet blooms and goes into your field journal as a pressed specimen. **Why some pods are taped down** From the fourth camp on, a few pods are held to the paper with tape and cannot be moved. They are part of the original flat drawing, so they work as fixed reference points: build the rest of the sheet around them rather than fighting them. **How the stars are worked out** Par for a sheet equals the number of pods you are allowed to move — in principle, each one needs to be placed only once. Finish at or under par for three stars, a little over for two, anything else for one. Short taps that do not move a pod are not counted. **A method that tends to work** 1. Look for the pod with the most dry stems attached and move it first. 2. Pull pods towards the edge of the sheet, then bring them back in one by one. 3. Treat the taped pods as the frame of the picture. 4. If you are stuck, a seed hint marks where one pod sat in the flat drawing. **The expedition** - 36 camps on one trail across three regions: Fynbos, Karoo and Highveld, 12 camps each. - Sheets grow from 4 pods to 16, with more stems and more taped pods further along. - Karoo opens at 20 stars and Highveld at 48. - A daily camp with a fresh sheet each day, a streak and a best-streak record. - Seed hints: you start with three; a first three-star finish on a camp or a completed daily camp adds one more. - The field journal collects a pressed specimen for every camp you finish. **Settings** Sound, haptics and a reduce-motion switch that stills drifting leaves, shakes and petal bursts. Progress lives in the game's own storage on the phone; nothing is sent anywhere.

1.0 — the full trail of 36 camps, the daily camp and the field journal.