Get help with Scarecrow Lane, the lane-defence orchard puzzle.
Scarecrow Lane is an iOS and Android game: birds drift down five lanes toward your orchard and you place scarecrows (2 seeds) and wind chimes (3 seeds) on the grid to turn them back. It has 120 levels in eight orchards, a Daily Lane with a streak, an endless Evergreen mode and an Almanac of 30 pages (scarecrow outfits, bird field notes and orchard varieties) bought with free coins you earn by playing. It is free to play with ads, has no accounts, and works offline. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
Yes. Scarecrow Lane is free to play, with ads served by Google AdMob: a banner on the home screen and below the orchard field, and a full-screen ad after some finished levels. You can earn ad-free play each month by watching short videos, or go ad-free every month with an optional monthly subscription.
Seeds grow back by themselves. Pick a scarecrow or a chime in the tray, then tap an empty tile. A scarecrow startles each bird that reaches it (crows need two startles, herons five) and loses a bit of straw each time; tap a worn one to mend it for a seed. Chimes slow every bird nearby. Keep fruit on the orchard trees until the last bird has gone: five fruit is three stars. Later orchards add gusts that push birds sideways, hay bales that block tiles, thin straw in frosty weather and magpies that steal a scarecrow. There are no timers on you and no lives.
Open Orchard Pass from the home screen or Settings and watch short rewarded videos. A progress line shows how many videos you have watched this month and the date it resets. Reaching 100 turns ads off until that date. Watching is always your choice.
The Orchard Pass subscription is US$2.99 per month (local price shown in the store). It renews automatically every month until you cancel, and it removes ads for as long as it is active.
iPhone and iPad: Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Scarecrow Lane > Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play > Profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Scarecrow Lane > Cancel subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Open Orchard Pass in the app and tap Restore purchases. You need to be signed in to the same Apple ID (iPhone and iPad) or Google account (Android) that subscribed.
Yes. The game plays fully offline; only ads and subscription checks need a connection.
The app has no accounts and no servers of ours, and your progress stays on your device. It shows ads served by Google AdMob, which may use your advertising ID. Where the law requires it the app shows Google’s consent form, and on iPhone and iPad it asks permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. See the Privacy Policy.
Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement on iPhone and iPad, and the Google Play Terms of Service on Android.
Progress is stored on your device, so it does not carry over to a new device or after an uninstall.
Email bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com and tell us your device, the app version and what happened.