Glossary of terms
From Petal Crashers Wiki
These are terms of art that are used when discussing Petal Crash play.
- 48/64
- A known bug where the AI may occasionally grow twice in a row with at least 48 blocks on its board, overgrowing itself in the process
- accepting
- Allowing garbage to fall
- ahead on bar
- Also known as plus
- The state of having pushed the battle bar into the opponent's side
- bare chain
- A linear chain composed only of clears of 2 petals at a time
- battle barring
- Also known as barring
- Intentionally playing to win via the battle bar, rather than overgrowth
- behind on bar
- Also known as minus
- The state of having the battle bar pushed into your side
- blocking
- Preventing garbage from falling by clearing, without necessarily countering
- blueprint chain
- A chain which is planned far in advance rather than built on the fly, generally referring to a large opening chain built around the outside of the board
- bouquet
- A large cluster of one color of petals
- bracing
- A block placed to keep other blocks from moving out of position during a chain
- bulky chain
- Also known as fancy chain, power chain
- A chain with a large number of petals compared to its length
- checkerboarding
- When the board is full of petals but few or no adjacent petals are of the same color, which generally occurs when growing many times in succession
- corner cases
- The set of rules for determining the direction a petal moves when pushed from several directions simultaneously
- counterpressure
- The ability to continue sending garbage while digging through your own garbage
- CPM
- Clears per minute
- cut
- Unintentional clears that interrupt a chain in the middle, or when petals are pushed by early links of a chain into a position that interrupts later links, making the chain shorter
- cyclicity
- A property of chains wherein the full chain can be set off from any constituent link
- DAS
- Delayed auto-shift, via which the cursor quickly repeats inputs that are held down for a brief period (only applicable on keyboard or controller)
- digging
- Focusing on clearing garbage
- double push
- Pushing a petal away from, and then back towards, a petal of the same color that it was previously touching in order to clear it
- fuse
- An extension added to a warhead, making a single long, bulky chain
- GPM
- Garbage sent per minute
- head
- The beginning of a chain, generally where one finds the intended trigger
- linear chain
- A chain with no branches
- link
- One clear involved in a chain
- lock-out
- A board state from which overgrowth is inevitable, even if there are valid moves available
- material
- Usable petals
- organic chain
- A chain, usually a sprout or V-split, assembled mostly or completely by spawners—as such it is non-compact and easily interrupted by future spawners, at which point it becomes checkerboarding
- overgrowth
- A board state where all spaces are filled with either petals or garbage, so there are no valid moves, causing the player to lose the game
- PPC
- Points per clear
- rescue
- Winning a game from a deeply unfavorable state, such as a 2-stock deficit with lots of garbage on the board
- rendezvous chain
- Also known as traveling chain
- A chain wherein at least one link is formed by several petals in motion whose trajectories intersect
- reversibility
- A property of chains where both ends of the chain can function as the head
- RUDL
- A mnemonic for the same-distance priority order (right, up, down, left), pronounced either "roodle" or "ruddle"
- skull
- An easter egg AI difficulty where the AI plays as fast and as smart as possible, accessible in Versus Mode by pressing right 5 times while the maximum challenge level is selected
- skull chain
- A chain which contains a lot of hard-to-see links, generally because they traverse across the board several times or involve complicated tempo savers, named for the AI difficulty which generally produces a lot of them
- staggered spawners
- A state where the player has several sets of garbage spawners which are set to spawn in at different times, making it difficult to grow
- synced spawners
- A state where the next set of petal spawners and the next set of garbage spawners will come in at the same time, such that the next grow may fill in more spaces than intended, potentially leading to accidental self-overgrowth
- tank & send
- Accepting garbage that could have been countered in order to ensure your opponent receives garbage as well
- tail
- The last group(s) to be cleared within a chain
- trigger
- The group of petals intended to set off a chain
- warhead
- A short, but very bulky chain, which can become destructive when extended
