JayisGames.com is now available ad-free!
Jay is Games recommends Cheat Happens with 8,000+ games and 35,000+ trainers!

Grow Nano 4


  • Currently 4.5/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Rating: 4.5/5 (232 votes)
Comments (34) | Views (61,763)

DoraGrow Nano 4What do you get when you mix cake with eyeballs, hearts, and fanged box monsters? Grow Nano 4, of course! On of Eyezmaze brings you this itty-bitty installment in the popular Grow series of puzzle games about adding stuff to other stuff, like Top Chef by way of a Beatles music video narrated by Hunter S Thompson and drawn by the world's most adorable children's book illustrator. Just click on the icons and try to figure out the correct order to use them in; the goal is to literally grow a very special little creature, which will only happen if you can figure out when to use what so everything has a chance to "level up" properly. It's the age old question; what came first, the cake or the creepily fixated eyeball-mounted-on-a-hunk-of-rock? Scientists need to know!

With only four ingredients, Grow Nano 4 isn't the biggest entry in the series, but since it was made just to highlight a weird and wonderful beastie created by a fan of the games, we can forgive it. Besides, just because it's short doesn't mean it's easy; like all Eyezmaze titles, you'll have to think outside the box (literally this time) if you want to figure out the correct order of ingredients. It's more than a welcome surprise, and should serve to tide you over until the next hefty Grow game arrives. Until then, it's clear that On knows just the recipe we need for fun!

Play Grow Nano 4

Still want more Grow? Play the entire Grow series of games (in order of release)...

Walkthrough Guide


(Please allow page to fully load for spoiler tags to be functional.)

I seem to have done it straight away...

if you'd like a walkthough:

  1. cake

  2. box

  3. heart

  4. eye

nice little timewaster though!

34 Comments

I seem to have done it straight away...

if you'd like a walkthough:

  1. cake

  2. box

  3. heart

  4. eye

nice little timewaster though!

Reply
smjjames May 2, 2011 12:28 PM

It is definitely neat for sure.

Also, I was able to do it pretty quickly without a walkthrough.

Reply

HOW DID I WIN WITHOUT A WALKTHROUGH? omo I need one for the 3 item installments! D:

Reply

I'm actually quite proud of myself for getting all the things on max on my first go :')

Reply
Patreon Crew SonicLover May 2, 2011 1:17 PM

I never did understand how these games worked. Apparently every failure contains hints for success, but I can't make sense of them.

Here's my first run...

Click the box. It appears in the middle of the base.

Click the heart. It appears orbiting in the air above the base.
The box levels up into a ? box, which appears to be a mouth-in-the-box.

Click the cake. It appears beneath the ? box.
The heart levels up and generates three other hearts, which spin in place in various areas.

Click the eye. It appears on the base, with four lights under it: blue-black-black-black-blue-black-black-black. Not at all sure if that's important.
The cake levels up and doubles in size.

Final tally: heart lv. 4, cake lv. 2, eye lv. 1, box lv. 2.

I'm not certain how any of that is supposed to hint at the correct pattern. Could someone more "into" the series give me a bit of explanation?

Reply
Patreon Crew SonicLover May 2, 2011 1:40 PM

Second try.

Since the eye was so low-level on my first run, I decided to add it first. It appeared with the same light combination as before.

Box second. Nothing happened.

Heart third. Box leveled up like before, but still nothing with the eye.

Cake last. Hearts leveled up like before; nothing else.

Levels at the end: heart 4, cake 1, eye 1, box 2.

Reply

Got it my first try without a walkthrough! Nevermind that there are only four parts :P

SonicLover, usually the animations aren't intended to be hints. What you should keep your eye on is which items raise the levels of the other items, and then prioritize them based on those chain reactions. Typically, that makes most Grow games a little trial-and-error based, but there is logic behind it. For example:

Since your eye lvl is only 1, you can infer that it's a late item to be used, as no other item raised its level.

It seems you may be overthinking it a little :)

Reply
Patreon Crew SonicLover May 2, 2011 2:02 PM

Well, I haven't noticed any chain-reactions yet... so for my third try, I'll take the sequence from my second try (which had the eye first) and apply it in the reverse order. Maybe something will react to something else.

Cake first. It appears.

Heart second. It appears, cake levels up. Nothing else happens.

Box third. Both cake and heart level up.

Eye last. Cake and box level up. Can't tell if anything affects anything else.

Final levels: heart 4, cake 4, eye 1, box 2.

Clearly I need to experiment more. For my next try I think I'll try cake, box, heart, eye.

Reply
Patreon Crew SonicLover May 2, 2011 2:04 PM

...Wow. Apparently cake-box-heart-eye was the correct solution all along! I guess the fact that the cake took a lot of levels was worth observing after all.

Reply
Littleghost May 2, 2011 2:20 PM

Wow, second try. That never happens. Must be the easiest Grow yet.

Reply
Patreon Crew SonicLover May 2, 2011 2:33 PM

With 4 items, there are 24 (4*3*2*1) possible permutations. The probability of getting the winning solution on your first try is 1/24.

Reply
SkylerF May 2, 2011 3:33 PM

9th try, working through the permutations.

Cute little game.

Reply
Anonymous May 2, 2011 3:33 PM

Whoa, I too got it on the first try. That never happens with these Grow games. I...somehow...feel cheated...hrmm.

Reply
nerdypants May 2, 2011 3:37 PM

Oooh, a new Grow game! Short and easy, but still really fun.

@SonicLover:
I had trouble understanding these games at first, too. What I do is write down the order I put things in, and then the levels of each item at the end. That usually helps me see which items need to go where in order to get them to max. It's kind of a lot of work, but it's so satisfying when you finally figure it out!

Reply

Second try, and I usually suck at these!

Reply
Isu the Mule May 2, 2011 8:19 PM

I'm disappointed in this game. Usually there are a variety of ways each element act together, but in this case there was only one.

Reply
Briguy May 2, 2011 8:42 PM

I agree with Isu the Mule above. There didn't seem to be any experimentation. You either win or you're wrong, without anything in between.

Reply

@Isu: This is no different than the previous Grow Nano games. The Nano is the indication that this isn't as complex as ones from the main Grow series, and that it doesn't have more than a single solution.

Got what I was expecting from this - an extremely brief but enjoyable diversion.

Reply
Angelade May 2, 2011 10:46 PM

Oh yay, I actually maxed out all levels on my second run! :D I feel so accomplished...

Reply
Shudog May 3, 2011 2:13 AM

I've explained the logic in a different Grow post, but it is not trial-and-error. There is a structure to it.

Basically

each element has a set time to, well, grow. If it takes 3 moves for an element to mature, activating it with 2 moves to go will mean it won't kick in. That's a Level Up. If it matures into something which then interacts with something else for another Level Up, that means both elements have to be ready to go *at the same time*.
That means you have to pay attention to *when* elements do their thing, and what they might potentially interact with.

Reply
Rosemary May 3, 2011 1:11 PM

Every time I follow the link, I get redirected to the Eyezmaze front page for some reason, so I can't play the game. D:

[Looks like there may be an issue with the Eyezmaze site right now. You might want to try again later. Or, as an alternative and temporary fix, try this link in Firefox, it worked for me: http://bit.ly/iiIMP4 -Jay]

Reply
sgtdroopy May 3, 2011 1:42 PM

Where can I buy that adorable statue? o.o

Reply

Hmm I got the "win" combination but there is still a question-marked picture above the game itself. Seems to me there is still something else we can see besides the win bit.

Reply

So i figured that since there were only 4 choices, there would only be 24 possible combinations... I made a list in a spreadsheet and started working from the top down, then about halfway through I switched and started going from the bottom up. On my TWENTY-FOURTH attempt I finally got it right.... geeez.

Reply

I finished in second attempt, too. Probably more pure luck than practice, although the clues of what levels I reached the first time did help a bit.

I love eyemaze's "GROW" webtoys... so was disappointed at this one's brevity. Maybe it is an appetizer for something larger next course?

Reply

By the way... the photo image of the statue made a very nice "prize" for finishing!

Reply

yup i figureed it out
1. cake
2. box
3. heart
4. eye

Reply

MY STATUE!!! :p

Reply

So cute...

Reply
Soul Candy October 24, 2011 5:01 PM

the real question is
where do i get it!!! so cute

Reply

Second try! :D

Reply
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawn3vq3233TZvheTiet0zbMkY2jNm1PGgRo May 21, 2012 3:45 PM

What happened to eyezmaze??? no update for a long time

Reply

ON occasionally adds easter eggs�mini-animations and hatchlings�to his blog. Currently there is a "progress report" up that is slowly, but steadily, growing nearer to completion (or maybe that's my hopes-fueled anticipation playing tricks on my eyes?)

Reply
gamerGurl October 13, 2013 9:05 PM

Strategy is for silly people,

I use random guesses! XD

Reply

^ Scroll Up | Homepage >

Leave a comment [top of page]

Please consider creating a Casual Gameplay account if you're a regular visitor here, as it will allow us to create an even better experience for you. Sign-up here!
  • PLEASE UNDERSTAND SITE POLICIES BEFORE POSTING COMMENTS
  • You may use limited HTML tags for style:
    (a href, b, br/, strong, em, ul, ol, li, code, spoiler)
    HTML tags begin with a less-than sign: < and end with a greater-than sign: >. Always. No exceptions.
  • To post spoilers, please use spoiler tags: <spoiler> example </spoiler>
    If you need help understanding spoiler tags, read the spoiler help.
  • Please Preview your comment before posting, especially when using spoilers!
  • No link dropping, no domains as names; do not spam, and do not advertise! (rel="nofollow" in use)
chrpa Jayisgames needs your help to continue providing quality content. Click for details Welcome to the Roundup 66 - Retro with four games! After you find the ten monkeys in the chapter, look in the inventory. You will find a...  ...
chrpa Jayisgames needs your help to continue providing quality content. Click for details Welcome to the Roundup 65 with three games! As mentioned in the previous roundups, only odd-numbered episodes are featured since even-numbered are for Robin Vencel's patrons (the...  ...
chrpa Jayisgames needs your help to continue providing quality content. Click for details Hi! Weekday Escape and Weekday Puzzle are here! First we have two new cans from tomoLaSiDo and then two small rooms from isotronic. That's all for this...  ...
6,365 Views
0 Comments
chrpa Jayisgames needs your help to continue providing quality content. Click for details Welcome to Mobile Monday! We have another beautiful game from Nicolet and it's a winter game as it should be. Tasuku Yahiro have released another of their...  ...

HELP Jayisgames.com

Recent Comments

 

Display 5 more comments
Limit to the last 5 comments

Game of the week


Dark Romance: Vampire Origins Collector's Edition

Your Favorite Games edit

add
Save links to your favorite games here. Use the Favorites editor.

Monthly Archives