Game Terminology

Terms

Alert – Some fairyland wildlife give an alert when they are due, including babies, chicks, endangered, caterpillars, butterflies, hummingbirds plus some others

Back Wall – You have two walls in Fairyland, your ‘Garden Wall’ which is the one visible when looking at your garden, people often leave a message here to show they have watered. And your ‘back wall’ which can be accessed by clicking your name and your fairy name. You can see your Fairyland statistics, such as the wildlife you have spotted and the date you started playing. People will often leave more important messages on your back wall that might get lost on your garden wall. 

Blanket Watering –  A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. This was a term used by some players when there used to be a limit on how often a plant could be watered. You could only water a plant every 15 minutes, the developers then changed this to every 5 minutes, then they changed it again to every 2 minutes. Blanket watering was used to describe a person that was able to water all plants in a garden as soon as they were available to water meaning nobody else could get a sprinkle in as the person blanketing was much quicker. Now there is no time limit on watering a plant so there is no real explanation as to the use of the term. Some people with rules use it to describe another watering too often, but the opinion of what is watering too much will vary from one rule garden to another, some may say watering every second is too much, another may think watering every minute is too much!

Blocking – an option in the game that allows you to block out another person for abuse or harassment, the person will then not be able to enter your garden or you enter their’s, this is not part of the game and should only be used in real cases of harassment.

Bubble – This refers to a baby bubble (babies are one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Catties – caterpillars (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Combos – refers to Mother and Baby Wildlife

Critter – a general word used to describe the wildlife in Fairyland

Double dipping – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. This term used by some players of Fairyland that describes a person who sprinkles and spots something feeding on one plate and then sprinkles again to spot something feeding on the second plate.

Escargold – Refers to snail gold which can be won in the game

Families – refers to Mother and baby combos (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Fly’s – Butterflies (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland) – A confusing term now that there are Flies in Fairyland.

Freezing – A part of the game that allows you to ‘Freeze Time’ in your garden.  You may wish to do this if you will be away from Fairyland for a few days. When you return and unfreeze your Garden, it will be exactly as you left it 🙂 

Front Wall – This refers to the wall where people generally leave messages when they water your garden. You can see this wall when you are looking at your garden. It is also known as your ‘garden wall’. 

Fully Grown / Flowering – When a plant has passed the growing stage but has not yet fruited/ready to harvest

Fruiting – When a plant is ready for harvest

Gate Crasher – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used by some players to describe another player who ignores their garden rules. For example in a virgin only garden, someone who has already spotted that wildlife waters and spots it anyway.

Hit and Run – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used by some players to describe a person who leaves a message but doesn’t actually water.

Lurker – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term given by some players to describe a player that is just watching a garden waiting for the right time to water. 

Mushie – a word used to describe fairyland mushrooms

Peggy – Pegasus (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Pillars – caterpillars (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Pinkies – Pink Diamonds, these can be collected while playing the game

Poacher – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term given by some players to describe a player who spots a critter but doesn’t leave a message.

Seed buddies – A term given by some players to describe the act of reserving certain wildlife with a friend or partner in Fairyland with the sole purpose of being able to swap that wildlife with each other. Commonly used for butterflies and caterpillars, for example Fairy A reserves her Lazy Indigo Caterpillar for Fairy B in return Fairy B reserves her Fluffy Violet Caterpillar for Fairy A.

Shroom – a word used to describe the fairyland mushrooms

Silent Waterer – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used to describe someone who is stalking a garden but not leaving messages each time so there presence may not be clear to others. 

Sneaky Sprinkler – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used to describe someone who is stalking a garden but not leaving messages each time so there presence may not be clear to others. It also used to describe someone who might have a garden open, waiting for the right time to water.

Soaked – When a garden is being watered a lot by one or many players someone might say it is ‘soaked’ in here.

Space Rat – Meteorat  (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Sparklies/Sparklers – This refers to diamonds which can be collected in the game

Splash / Sprinkle / Squirt – Any of these terms could be used to describe when someone has watered your garden.

Snold – Snail Gold (can be won by playing the game)

Stalker – Someone who has been watering a garden for a long time in hope of spotting the wildlife. A stalker may water once every 5 minutes or more or less depending on what wildlife they believe is due to be feeding.

Super Soaker – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used to describe when someone waters often.

Swapping/Exchanging – Some players like to swap gold for diamonds and vice versa, there are restrictions to this so please check carefully before you agree to a swap

Swooping – A player made rule not endorsed by the game developers and not an official game rule. A term used to describe when someone waters and spots something that another person had expected to get. It used to mean when someone watered at the last minute when something was due and got the critter but now it has been adapted and the meaning of ‘a swoop’ is different from one rule garden to the next. If someone asks for no swooping it is best to either clarify what they consider swooping to be or avoid the garden.

Taz / Tazzie – Tasmanian Devil (one of the many types of wildlife you can find in Fairyland)

Twins – When a wildife such as babies or chicks, where usually only one would visit, is programmed to visit both plates, it is a glitch in the game but a good one!

Virgin – someone who has not spotted a certain critter

Water Fight – When more than one person is trying to spot the wildlife that might be due. Each sprinkling as often as they can or want to to try and be the person that spots the wildlife.

Wobble – When an egg is about to hatch

Worm – a name used to describe caterpillars