The Cave
Deep inside a cave there is no daylight, and the temperature barely changes all year. Animals that spend their whole lives there often lose their eyes and their color over many generations, like the olm and the southern cave crayfish.
The Cave world starts in the tunnels just under the fields and drops into flooded passages and crystal chambers, where the bats roost.
In the game: depths one to ten on the cave map bring four creatures and an elite, the Southern Cave Crayfish, then all five again in costume. The boss, the Common Vampire Bat, waits at the end.
Meet the cave creatures
- [Amazonian Giant Centipede render] Amazonian Giant Centipede Scolopendra gigantea In some caves it hangs from the ceiling and catches bats in flight. Costume: Wizard Centipede
- [European Mole render] European Mole Talpa europaea It can dig many metres of tunnel in a single day. Costume: Sir Mole
- [Olm render] Olm Proteus anguinus It is blind; its tiny eyes are hidden under its skin. Costume: Olm Queen
- [Herald Moth render] Herald Moth Scoliopteryx libatrix It spends the winter resting in caves, often beaded with tiny water droplets. Costume: Dapper Moth
- [Southern Cave Crayfish render] Southern Cave Crayfish Orconectes australis It is white and has no eyes; it finds its way by touch and smell. EliteCostume: Viking Crayfish
- [Common Vampire Bat render] Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus It shares blood meals with roost-mates who went hungry. Boss
How the Cave plays
- Health
- Lantern. You start each fight with 40; running out means lantern out.
- Winning a fight
- Defeated
- Bonus meter
- Rockslide
- Special tiles
- Gem (5-letter words), Glowshroom (6), Pickaxe (7+)
- Hazards
- Slimy tiles, Stuck tiles
- Theme words
- Words like GEM and ROCK score ×1.5