GAME INSTRUCTIONS
What is the goal of the game?
Farm Story is an online Match 3 puzzle game set on a farm. The main objective is to swap the positions of harvested crops on the grid to align three or more identical items, clear them from the board, and complete the specific fruit and vegetable collection goals across all 25 levels.Recommended age and educational level
This game is recommended for children aged 6 and up (Elementary School) as well as adults and seniors. By age 6, players have developed the capacity for visual pattern recognition and basic sequence planning. It serves as a great tool for students to practice visual focus and counting, and for older players looking to keep their cognitive skills sharp and active.How to play: single-player or multiplayer
It is designed as a single-player game. However, it can easily be adapted into a cooperative group challenge in the classroom or at home, where players observe the screen together to analyze the grid and discuss the best moves before making a turn.What do you learn from this game? Learning and skills
- Selective attention and visual perception: scanning the grid efficiently to locate potential matches.
- Spatial reasoning and planning: predicting how new crops will drop after clearing a combination.
- Strategic thinking: prioritizing objective-specific crops over random matches.
- Basic math skills: tracking remaining moves and counting collected target items.
Tips to get the most out of this game
Always examine the full grid before your first move to target the required crops immediately. For an unplugged offline activity, teachers or parents can print grid templates for kids to draw crop patterns, or record move counts to calculate accuracy percentages on paper.Video