At the title screen (once unlocked), activate the following effects by entering one of the codes. Note: Your Tree Of Wisdom must be a certain height before some codes can be enabled:
CHEAT FUNCTION - CHEAT CODE
Zombies wear sunglasses - future
Zombies have mustaches - mustache
Daisies appear when zombies die - daisies
Candy rains when zombies die - pinata
Toggles zombie call for brains sound - sukhbir
Zombies dance - dance
Zombies walks slowly - slowboke
Alternate Lawn Mower appearance - trickedout
Gold and Silver trophies:
To get the Gold trophy, get all the trophies in Mini-Games, Puzzle, and Survival modes. For the Silver trophy, complete Adventure mode.
Easy money hints:
-Get the Zen Garden and water the plants until they don't need anything else. Advance the system date ahead and the plants will need water again. Purchase new plants, grow them to full size, then sell them. Repeat this to earn more money. You can also use this technique when you have to get Marigolds in Crazy Dave's shop when they are out of stock.
-Set up your defenses around the slot machine as follows: one row of walnuts on the right side, one or two rows of sunflowers on the left, and fill everything else with pea and snow pea shooters. Protect the lawn mowers as each is worth a Gold Coin at the end of the game; do not let them mow the zombies. Stop collecting sun at about 1,900 sun points. At this point, the garden should be full and acquiring the extra 100 points to win should be easy. Just collect enough sun to offset the slot machine while keeping the slot machine spinning. It will randomly drop one or three gems as long your patience lasts. If the zombies get close to the mowers, end the game. Just collect the sun lying on the field to end the game.
-To make Walnut Bowling more profitable, protect the lawnmowers as each is worth one gold coin ($250). Line up shots off the front runner. After the first zombie is hit, each additional zombie strike earns you coins. Create a front runner where none already exists.Pole vaulting zombies will run fast until they vault over a nut, and the newspaper zombies run fast after getting the paper destroyed by a nut. Let them run a short distance down the lawn before sending a nut their way. You do not need to use nuts. When there are a couple zombies ambling down the lawn without a clear ricochet shot, wait a while to see if more of them will step out to play. They can always be killed once they cross the red line. Use one nut for regular zombies, three for bucket wearing zombies, and two for the others. Also, keep the exploding nuts in reserve and don't use them unless a mob crosses the line or there are not enough nuts or room to clear out a difficult to kill zombie. Use the regular walnuts for the zombies that have not reached the red line. Do not use exploding nuts to kill pole vaulting zombies directly as pole vaulting zombies only jump obstacles in their own lane. A pole vaulting zombie who has not vaulted yet will safely jump over explosions or nuts in their own lane. Find a neighbor in the next lane and time the nut to hit when the pole vaulting zombie gets close to the neighbor.
New seed selection hint:
Exit the game and restart if you do not like the cards from Crazy Dave. The cards will change randomly.
Increasing plant growth:
Disable full screen mode and go to your zen garden. After feeding the plants, it usually takes thirty minutes to feed them again. To feed them all, change the system time to an earlier value, thus increasing their growth.
Easy completion of "Dr. Zomboss":
When Dr. Zomboss comes down to throw an ice ball or fire ball, use Freeze Shrooms to freeze him. This gives your pults time to get some damage on Dr. Zomboss himself. Jalapenos also inflict damage to him when he is down to toss a fire or ice ball. The more damage you inflict on Dr. Zomboss, the faster and easier it is to end this level. Save at least one Freeze Shroom and one Jalapeno for whatever he tosses.
Easy completion of "Last Stand":
Make sure you have at least eight slots of seed before starting. Select the following plants: Repeaters, Gatling Peas, Tall Nuts, Tangle Kelps, Lily Pads, Torchwoods, Coffee Beans, and Magnet-Shrooms, Afterward, set the following layout: put two Repeaters from the back columns on every row (except the pool), only one Repeater on the back columns on every pool row (use Lily Pads first), then change the Repeaters on the pool to become Gatling Peas. Put Torchwoods in front of the Repeaters and Gatling Peas (on the pool use Lily Pads first), then give the space a column and plant the Magnet-Shrooms on the lawn only. Wake them up with Coffee Beans and, front of the Magnet-Shrooms on the lawn, plant the Tall Nuts. Note: Plant the Tangle Kelps on the last time. The layout should appear as follows.
R R T <> M N
R R T <> M N
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G T K K K K
G T K K K K
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R R T <> M N
R R T <> M N
R = Repeaters
G = Gatling Peas
T = Torchwoods
K = Tangle Kelps
M = Magnet-Shrooms that have been awakened
N = Tall-Nuts
-Select the following plants (at least eight slots required): Pumpkin, Lilypad, Magnet-Shroom, Gold Magnet, Marigold, Doom-Shroom, Coffee Bean, and Wall-Nut. Fill the remaining slots with plants of your choice. Use the following layout for an easy victory. First, put Pumpkins on the first three Marigolds starting from the Wall-Nut, except the Marigold on the pool. Make sure not to put any Pumpkins on the pool. Start the game. If you have enough sun power, put a Doom-Shroom in to replace with the thing in the two Gold Magnets, then awaken the Doom-Shroom with a Coffee Bean.
M M M M M M M M W
M M M M M M M M W
M M M M G M M M W
M M M M G M M M W
M M M M M M M M W
M M M M M M M M W
M = Marigold
P = Pumpkin
L = Lily Pad
W = Wall-Nut
A = Magnet-Shroom
G = Gold Magnet
D = Doom-Shroom
C = Coffee Bean
-Follow the proceeding formation to make things easy. Note: Upgrade Repeaters to Gatling Peas when you have sufficient sun power.
MP RMS T
MP RMS T
MP RMS T
MP RMS T
MP RMS T
MP RMS T
MP = Melon-Pult
R = Repeater
MS = Magnet-Shroom
T = Tall-Nut
Finding the imitator in Suburban Almanac:
Click the top left of the almanac to see the imitator.
Earning sun in Zombie mini-games:
Kill flowers to earn sun in the zombie mini-games. First, put the best zombie for the situation in the lane you want it to go in, making sure that there are sunflowers planted in that lane. Collect the sun when the zombie eats the flower and buy more items.
Creating a fort:
Use the following plant formation with the following items to create a fort:
0: Sunflowers or upgraded flowers
1: A shooter plant
2: Repeater/upgraded
3: Three shooter plant (three lanes)
4: Fire Plant (fire tree that turns bullets to fire balls that pass through it)
5: Cattail
6: Squash (or Wallnut/Tallnut)
7: Small mushrooms
8: Chomper
9: Scardey Shroom
X: Free space
In the morning:
0 1 2 3 4 6 8
0 1 2 3 4 6 8
0 1 2 3 4 6 8
0 1 2 3 4 6 8
0 1 2 3 4 6 8
At night:
0 2 3 4 9 X 7 7 7 6
0 2 3 4 9 X 7 7 7 6
0 2 3 4 9 X 7 7 7 6
0 2 3 4 9 X 7 7 7 6
0 2 3 4 9 X 7 7 7 6
Final Boss strategy:
The final Boss launches massive fire balls and ice balls at your plants that crush everything in their path except for zombies (basically, all plants in that row). use Chili Peppers to destroy the ice ball and Ice Shrooms (with a Coffee Bean) to destroy the fire balls.
Pole Vaulters hint:
When Pole Vaulters are present, pick a Walnut and a Chomper and make sure you can dig up plants and plenty of sun.. Put down a Walnut and then a Chomper behind the Walnut. The Pole Vaulter will hop over the Walnut and straight into the Chomper. Then, dig up the Chomper and he is no more.
Getting light in fog hint:
When there is fog and you need light (and don't have a lantern), use the torch wood if you have the sun to see the space in front of it.
Bungees hint:
Use Chompers, Squash, Ice Shroom, Jalapeno to kill Bungees. Umbrella Plants also work.
Hidden achievement objects:
The achievements are shown as an underground list. Scroll through the list and keep going down to see a bunch of hidden objects including a zombie, the bookworm from Bookworm, jewels from Bejeweled, a unicorn fossil, and even Chinese zombies staring back down the hole.
Trophies:
Bronze trophies
20 Below Zero - Immobilize 20 full-sized zombies with a single Ice-shroom.
Blind Faith - Complete an extremely foggy level with using Planterns or Blovers.
Chill Out - Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, you've one level to destroy 3 bobsleds, its Jalapeno time!
Close Shave - Survive the zombie onslaught after all lawnmowers have been used
Crash of the Titan - Defeat your first Gargantaur
Defcorn 5 - Build 5 Cob Cannons in a single level.
Diamond Beghouler - Upgrade all your plants in Beghouled
Don't Pea in the Pool - Complete a daytime pool level without using Pea-shooters
Enlightened - Collect all Zen Garden, Mushroom Garden and Aquarium Garden plants
Explodonator - Blast 10 zombies at once with a Cherry Bomb!
Flower Power - Keep 10 Twin Sunflowers alive in a single level.
Good Morning - Complete a daytime level by planting only Mushrooms and Coffee Beans.
Greenfingers - Grow 10 Zen Garden plants to full size
Last Mown Standing - Defeat the last zombie in a level with a lawn mower.
Lawn Mower Man - Kill 10 zombies with a single lawn mower.
Melon-y Lane - Plant a Winter Melon on every lane.
Monster Mash - Crush 5 zombies with a single Squash.
Nom Nom Nom - Stop the horde using only the Sunflower, Wall-Nut, and Chomper on any level
Penny Pincher - Pick up 30 coins in a row on a single level without letting any disappear.
Popcorn Party - Defeat 2 Gargantuars with Corn Cob missiles in a single level.
Pyromaniac - Complete a level using only explosive plants to kill zombies.
Smarty Branches - Grow the Tree of Wisdom to at least 100 feet
Soil Your Plants - Plant your first 10 peashooters
Sol Invictus - Complete Last Stand with 2,000 sun remaining
Sproing! Sproing! - Complete Pogo Party without using Tall-Nuts or Magnet-shrooms.
SPUDOW! - Blow up a zombie using a Potato Mine.
Sunny Days - Accumulate 8,000 sun during a single level.
Wall-Not Attack - Complete ZomBotany without using Wall-nuts, Tall-nuts or Pumpkins.
Silver trophies
Alive and Planting - Survive 40 waves of pure zombie ferocity
Chili Free - Complete Column Like You See'em without using Jalapenos
Grounded - Defeat a normal roof level without using any Catapult plants.
Home Lawn Security - Complete Adventure Mode
Lucky Spin - Get 3 diamonds in Slot Machine
Master of Morticulture - Collect all 49 plants in the game
No Fungus Among Us - Complete a nighttime level without planting any Mushrooms.
Pool's Closed - Complete a pool level without using water plants.
Roll Some Heads - Bowl over 5 zombies with a single Wall-nut.
Shooting Star - Complete Seeing Stars before the first Flag Zombie appears
Shopaholic - Go trunk driving and spend at least $25,000 on Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies
Zombologist - Discover the Yeti zombie.
Gold trophies
Beyond the Grave - Beat all 20 mini games
Second Life - Complete Adventure mode a second time.
Platinum trophy
The Complete Zombie - Earn all Bronze, Silver, and Gold trophies.
