Plants vs. Zombies 2/Glitches

The following is a list of all the found glitches in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Feel free to add one if you discover one that is not written here.

Hidden Imp Glitch
Sometimes when the Gargantuar throws his Imp, and the Lightning Reed/Power Zap or the Cherry Bomb/Jalapeno kills him and turns him into ashes, you should still see a burnt Imp with the Gargantuar.

Gravestone On The Lava


Lost City Texture Glitch
When starting level 11 on Lost City, rapidly go to the Almanac. When you come back, there is a chance that the tiles will be black, other than the Gold Tiles.

Pushed Burnt Zombie Glitch
You need a Cherry Bomb, a Coconut Cannon, and Plant Food. Use Plant Food on Coconut Cannon then use Cherry Bomb just before the Coconut Cannon's big explosive coconut touches the zombies. When timed it right, the zombies may still be pushed away by the said coconut while they're still burnt by Cherry Bomb.

Wrong Gem Glitch
When The Travel Log normally gives you 12 gems or nevertheless, it will sometimes give you free ones, or less like 8.

Double Death Glitch
Sometimes once a zombie eats a Chili Bean,its head falls off because it could get zapped by a Lightning Reed once more.

Travel Log rank glitch
For those who managed to complete all levels then update the game to 3.5.1, the players should complete all the current quests as well, thus winning rewards and ranking up currently to 34 instantly. But the rank level sometimes somehow changes to any rank number (usually more than the current 34) after visiting the Travel Log several times instead of 34 like the said players. However, the next time you visit Travel Log will change back to rank 34. Chances for this glitch is random.

Guacodile Glitch
This glitch is unknown. What happens is, if you plant a Guacodile in the water of Big Wave Beach, it will sometimes spit seeds, where it normally doesn't in the water.

Rotobaga Texture Glitch
This glitch is unknown.

You Can't Quit
This glitch can occasionally occur where players can't quit Endless Zone. When attempting to quit, the game returns the player to the plant selection screen. This glitch also causes the card selection page to be skipped. It is similar to the Zen Garden glitch, since it changes the zombies that appear. To fix it, quit the app from the plant selection page (where you would "retire" from Endless) and make sure the game restarts to the main menu.

Unfrozen but still chilled
Go to Day 3 of Frostbite Caves. You need a frozen Cave Conehead Zombie (since you always start with two, one at the front won't be difficult for the players), Peashooter or better yet Repeater, and Hurrikale. First you must plant a Peashooter or Repeater to destroy the frozen Cave Conehead Zombie's ice block. Right before he's finally unfrozen, immediately plant a Hurrikale. He should still be pushed away a bit and chilled by the Hurrikale despite being unfrozen.

Restarted Vasebreaker Progress
This glitch can be triggered after updating the game into version 3.4.4. It would restart the Vasebreaker progress due to adding new Vasebreaker levels. If the player finished Egyptian Challenge Pack, it can be restarted. However, every Vasebreaker Power up is unlocked if the player finished the Vasebreaker before updating.

No Escape from Level 1 in the Endless Zone
Sometimes when you die in an Endless Zone, it will send you back to the beginning with all your plants. If you win the first level, it will automatically send you back to the beginning of a new first level with new zombies, and you will keep whatever lawnmowers you still had, but not your Plant Food. If you lose the first level, you will get all your lawnmowers back in a new first level. If you save and exit, the number in front of the Endless Zone will be as high as if you had not died. When you press Retire in any endless zone while you are on the choose your seeds screen, the marigold loading screen will show up but will send you back to the choose your seeds screen with the new generated zombies.

Frozen Disappearing Puff-shroom
To do this glitch,you must:
 * Plant a Puff-shroom and don't feed it Plant Food.
 * Once the Puff-shroom is fading away, a Hunter Zombie or the freezing winds could freeze the Puff-shroom even when it hid inside.

The zombies didn't eat your plant
If an endangered plant is destroyed by a Gargantuar, Fisherman Zombie, etc., the death screen will still say "The zombies ate your plant." No death screen has been made for these specific circumstances.

Release!
You need a Dandelion for this. Go to Frostbite Caves and go to a level with chilling winds and/or Hunter Zombies. When either freeze Dandelion in ice, use a Hurrikale (most preferably) on the lane with the frozen Dandelion. When you unfreeze the Dandelion after using Hurrikale, the seeds blow off!

Still Alive
When finishing Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC, make sure that there is at least one ice block left. When Zomboss is defeated and while he is doing the defeat animation, make a plant remove the ice block, and when the Zombot is dead, the zombie in the ice block appears, and eats your plants. When it reaches your house, nothing happens.

Speed-up Reward and Dialogue
After you defeat the last zombie on the lawn, the prize is there. Before you collect the prize, press the Turbo Button. Collect the reward and it will speed up.

Music Glitch
When you go to the almanac and exit and come back, the almanac and world music will play at the same time.

Days Glitch
Rarely, in Frostbite Caves, or any other time period, a few levels will turn green, The list of completed levels will even say that you did not complete those levels yet, the plants by those levels will be also locked. The glitch can fix itself if you quit the app a couple times.

Corpse Statue Glitch
If you use a Stunion on a zombie right before it dies, it will become stunned, however the gas cloud is not visible, making it some sort of corpse statue.

Plant on Ice Block Glitch
When you battling Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC and you have boosted plant (Chard Guard, Pepper-pult, etc). If Zombot create an ice block (before fully created), quickly put a boosted plant in front of Zombot (or ice block if there is one or more ice block). Now your plant is on ice block. (It works with Plant Food, but needs more coins.)

Fire Peashooter Plant Food Glitch
When you give plant food to Fire Peashooter before the Pinata ends, the fire and its sound effect is still there when you open the Pinatas.

Unlimited Reward Glitch
When in the Zen Garden, the ability to earn free coins will not disappear.
 * The player can use this to get lots of coins, but it is a very time-consuming task.

Ghost Imp Cannon glitch
This glitch requires:


 * A level with Imp Cannon (Preferably Dead Man's Booty)
 * Iceberg Lettuce

When two Imp Cannons stack on each other, place an Iceberg Lettuce on them. This will cause the plants in that row to shoot at the ghost, now invincible and invisible Imp Cannon to no end. You can try all you want. You can get rid of it with a Plant Food on a Citron.

Instants don't need a lily pad


Go to Big wave beach (any level)

Plant any instant use plant on a lily pad just when a Gargantuar is about to crush the lily pad. You will see the instant plant on water and not die.

Shovel and Plant Crash
When you shovel a plant and quickly plant another in the same space sometimes the game crashes.

Note: This happens in the 3.2.1 row soft release, and was only confirmed on Days 10 and 11 of Frostbite Caves. It this possible this glitch occur because the game doesn't have enough time to remove the ice-data about the tile in which these actions happen.

Frozen plants Glitch

 * 1) Go to a level of Frostbite Caves with a frozen plant. (For example, Day 2)
 * 2) Pick Ghost Pepper as one of your plants.
 * 3) Use the Ghost Pepper to unfreeze the plant.
 * 4) The ghosts that Ghost Pepper uses to attack will surround the plant, even if the Ghost Pepper has exploded.
 * 5) Note: When you dig up the plant on that tile, the ghosts will still surround the area.

Citron freeze glitch
When a Citron is on the lawn before the level actually starts, and it becomes fully charged, it freezes in the position it's in on its seed packet, with a little bit of light surrounding it. This glitch can occur in a Last Stand level before "Let's Rock!" is pressed, and in Far Future - Day 15, where some Citrons are endangered, before the level is started.

Wrong Lane
In The Daily Treasure Yeti event (level 2 Pirate Seas's), a Conehead Zombie will appear in the most bottom lane of the screen. The Conehead will just fall into the water and die. Killing him will not give a special reward. This also works on Pirate Seas Day 8 of the international version, but chances of this happening are unknown.

Not gone yet
(This only works in the Chinese version)

When killing a Level 2 or 3 zombie, there is a slight chance that the electricity surrounding them might stay there even if the zombie is dead; in other words, the electricity is on the tile where the zombie was killed. This was done by using a Blover against a Level 2 Seagull Zombie and Swashbuckler Zombie in place.

Puff-shroom is just blind
(Note: This only works in the Chinese version)

When a Puff-shroom is still attacking a dead zombie after killing it, the spore will not disappear instead it will fly out of the lawn. This also works with the level 2 and 3 upgrade of Iceberg Lettuce.

White digits
If there are a large amount of free Power-ups in use, particularly with 5 digits, the letters will turn white, becoming almost unreadable. This is usually obtained with Hacking.

Invisible Power Tiles
Upon exiting and entering a level, any and all Power Tiles that existed before, not after, resetting the level will visually disappear, but will work as intended. This first occured in the 3.1 update and was fixed in the 3.3 update.

Double boosted plant
This glitch only appears when you pick a boosted plant and pick it on multiple levels.


 * 1) Pick a boosted plant
 * 2) Go to a level
 * 3) Save and exit and go to another level with the boosted plant
 * 4) Close the game instantly
 * 5) Open the game and beat both levels and go to another level
 * 6) The boosted plant will still be there and still boosted

Note:This glitch will only work on Android.

Mirror Background glitch
Note: This glitch doesn't work on iOS devices

This glitch is triggered when a strange square drops from a zombie and collected.

If this glitch happens, your background is going to get very strange, showing a reflection of the object in the middle of the screen.

It is unknown what triggers a zombie to drop this square, and the occurrence of this glitch is very rare.

Force Field glitch 2
This glitch is similar to the Floating wall glitch. If you plant an Infi-nut right in front of the Fisherman Zombie, it pulls the plant as usual but this time if it had the plant food upgrade, the force field stays.

The game won't let you escape
It only works in the Chinese version.

If a Vigorous Broccoli is grabbing a zombie and a Archmage Zombie causes it to sleep, the zombie will stay in place until the Vigorous Broccoli wakes up.

No Rewards Instead Crash
Since the 3.0.1 update this bug appeared on the game.

Basically when you finish a level killing a Treasure Yeti, the game will crash. It also happens in the Chinese version, on the 1.3.0 update, whenever you finish a event.

No HUD Glitch
It is unknown the occurrence of this glitch.

When this glitch happens, all the HUD elements disappear, even the buttons in menus and events. Also the lunch box from the Treasure Yeti will appear as a sun instead.

Zombies Spawned in Wrong Boss Battle Stage
''Note: This was tested on the 3.0.1 version of the iOS version of the game, on iPad, and on the first playthrough. It is unknown whether this occurs in other versions or other playthrough.''


 * 1) Play Big Wave Beach - Day 32. (or any other boss fight level, exept Frostbite Caves - Day 30)
 * 2) Survive until the start of third stage (like, the Zombot's health bar is less than 1/3 of starting health).
 * 3) Then the glitch: sometimes the Zombot Sharktronic Sub (or any other Zombot from particular level) will start the stage by spawning zombies, and sometimes zombies that are exclusive to other stage(s) get spawned (e.g. Deep Sea Gargantuar) which could ruin the level and cause the player to fail or force the player to restart if the issue is serious enough.

I Need More Sunscreen Glitch

 * 1) Kill a Deep Sea Gargantuar via either using Lightning Reed, Power Zap or any plant that can burn it.
 * 2) Now when it dies it will leave a sun instead of a burnt Gargantuar.

This glitch happens because the sprite needed for the animation was not added in the game, when the game is missing a sprite, it is replaced by a sun instead.

Plant on Surfboard Glitch
You must do this:


 * 1) Plant anything, except Lily Pad or instant-use plants in front of the Surfer.
 * 2) Wait for a Fisherman Zombie pull your plant.

Now, your plant is on the surfboard!

And if there's another Surfer Zombie using his surfboard to kill that plant, the plant won't die.

Replanted Lily Pad Glitch
To do this glitch, you must:


 * 1) Plant a Lily pad (or skip this part if you see pre-planted Lily Pad).
 * 2) Save and exit.
 * 3) Enter the same level. And then ,Plant Lily Pad on Lily Pad.

Your sun will be spent, but no effect will happen. Just Replanted Lily Pad.

Tangle Kelp Glitch
Note: This glitch was tested on Android, iPhone, and iPad.

When Tangle Kelp is grabbing Zombie, exit before the Zombie is killed by Tangle Kelp. After that, enter the same level. The glitch will do the following:


 * The zombies that were grabbed by Tangle Kelp will be immobilized and immortal, but the zombies don't move.

After you finish the Final wave, you will be stuck with the immobilized zombies (meaning that the level will never end). This is because the zombies where grabbed by Tangle Kelp act like the background. So it was never touched by any projectiles. The only way to fix this is restart or use a Plant Food on a Tangle Kelp.

No Chomper or Ghost Pepper

 * 1) Play a Piñata Party with a premium plant that is before Chomper in the almanac.
 * 2) After beating the party, the ad for the premium plant being on sale will be seen.  Tap the ad to enter the store.
 * 3) All premium plants except the later ones are there.

Explorer Zombie eating Spring Bean Glitch

 * 1) Pick a level with Explorer Zombie in Ancient Egypt.
 * 2) Pick Spring Bean and Iceberg Lettuce.
 * 3) As soon as explorer comes, freeze it, then ignite torch.
 * 4) Now plant spring bean in front of it so it can eat infinite times.

The explorer will keep eating spring bean and try to restore his torch.

Diamond Exit Glitch
Occasionally if you click "Save and exit" it will make the diamond noise.

Note, this was done on level 16 of "Big Wave Beach", and this also can be done on an Endless Zone

Floating wall
When an Infi-nut is upgraded with plant food, and a grave grows out of the ground, the Infi-nut gets tossed, but the shield stays there.

My Peashooter is Gone
This glitch works on some other levels when a plant is already on the lawn; for example, Far Future - Day 1.
 * 1) Open Wild West Day- 1 for the first time.
 * 2) After they tell you to move the minecart where the Peashooter is, go to the Zen Garden.
 * 3) When you come back the Peashooter is gone.

Final Wave Glitch
''Note: This glitch was tested on Android and iPad. It may not happen on other devices.''
 * 1) Sometimes when playing a level, the zombie on the progress bar will not move and it will say final wave. After that it will start moving.

Last Stand sound effect Glitch

 * 1) Open any Last Stand level. This glitch works on the Last Stand setup, or when playing.
 * 2) Listen carefully as you press the pause button.
 * 3) If you did not hear it, press the pause button again on the top right. But do not press "resume".
 * 4) The glitch is that when the pause button is pressed, it will make the sound effect when pressing "Lets Rock!" and the normal record scratching.

The sound glitch (only the Let's Rock sound effect) can also be heard when the player drags something (like a plant or Plant Food) and put it back.

Cannot move Glitch
Sometimes, when the player loads up the game, he or she cannot move. The player can just restart the game.

Hypno-shroom Can Be eaten Twice Glitch

 * 1) Plant a Hypno-shroom.
 * 2) Wait until a zombie comes to it.
 * 3) When the Zombie takes a bite, quickly put Plant Food on the Hypno-shroom.
 * 4) The Zombie will be hypnotized, and the Hypno-shroom will still be there.
 * Now, when another zombie bites it, it will turn into a Gargantuar.

Spikerock Costume is invisible Glitch

 * 1) Plant a Spikerock with its costume (the shades).
 * 2) Wait until a zombie steps on it.
 * 3) Look closely at the Spikerock.
 * 4) Notice the costume is not visible.

This animation glitch also happens with other plants when they do certain actions, like attack for example.

This can happen with the Spikeweed only with its Plant Food ability.

Proof: Plant a Spikerock when a zombie is not standing on it. The shades are there. When a zombie steps on the Spikerock, you should realize the shades are not there.

Wizard Zombie hand eating animation Glitch

 * 1) Attack Wizard Zombie until it reaches its first degrade.Wizardoutarm.png
 * 2) The Wizard Zombie can only eat hypnotized zombies and Infi-nuts' force field (Plant Food ability)
 * 3) When the Wizard Zombie has lost its visible arm and starts eating the force field or a hypnotized zombie, the player can see that the arm is gone, but once it raises its arm to eat, you can see the hand even though the arm is gone. As of now this glitch has been fixed.
 * 4) This also happens with the Flag Zombie. A floating hand can be seen although it has lost its arm, and this glitch has not been fixed with this zombie.

Plant on the Water Glitch
Note: This must be done in Pirate Seas.


 * 1) At the final wave select a plant.
 * 2) When you complete the level do not collect the reward, instead plant the plant on water.
 * 3) The plant will be on water!

This only works in the international version, as of 3.00.1 it makes a splash sound.

Zombie Shadow Glitch
There is a glitch that the zapped zombie shadows will not go away until the game is finished.

Note: The chances of this happening are very low, because of predicting when a Lightning Reed zaps a zombie and a Spring Bean bounces back a zombie. If attempting to do this, you likely won't get it on your first try.


 * 1) Start Pirate Seas - Day 19.
 * 2) Choose Lightning Reed and Spring Bean.
 * 3) Plant the Spring Bean near water.
 * 4) Zap a zombie while it is on the Spring Bean. The Spring Bean will bounce the zapped zombie to the water, but for some reason, the zombie will not get into the water. Instead, it leaves a boneless black shadow.

Dialogue Reset Glitch
Occasionally, if playing on a mobile device, accidentally quitting the game mid-level or if the Zen Garden Sunflower tutorial is triggered it will reset initial level dialogue if a level has it.
 * This specific glitch depends on the device used as well as what causes the accidental shut down. There is no known way to do this intentionally and the chances of this happening are unknown.
 * This glitch applies only until the level has been completed for the first time, and multiple occurrences to the same level are rare.
 * This only partially applies to endless zones. So long as you press quit, Crazy Dave's dialogue will always reset until you start playing for the first time.

Losing the boost
There is a glitch where Plant Food Boosts can be lost.


 * This glitch occurs in the same way as the Dialogue Reset glitch. An accidental shutdown of the game will reset the level, deleting selected boosts in the process.


 * This will occur to any level, seeds or conveyor, new or previously completed, main, endless or Pinata Party.


 * As mentioned on Dark Ages Night 20 and Big Wave Beach - Day 32, this does not apply to the Magnet-shroom or Lily Pad while fighting the Zombot Dark Dragon or the Zombot Sharktronic Sub. The Magnet-shroom is permanently boosted to the Dark Ages - Night 20 level, so this glitch will not affect a boosted Magnet-shroom in the Zen Garden. The Lily Pad is always boosted in the Zombot Sharktronic Sub fight, so the glitch will not affect a boosted Lily Pad in the Zen Garden.

Not in Almanac Glitch
(Note: This glitch was found on a Wi-Fi device. It is unknown if this occurs on 3G/4G devices.)

There is an occasional glitch in the Almanac where previously-encountered zombies are removed. Here's how it happens: This glitch may not apply to all devices, but if it does occur, it can be fixed. You must be online to resolve the issue. This glitch is more severe with the Zombot Dark Dragon. It will be removed every time the app is closed, even if completed while online.
 * 1) Encounter new zombies while the device is offline.
 * 2) Enable Wi-Fi and re-enter the game. Zombies encountered offline are no longer there.
 * If it's one or more of the Zombots, you will need to re-defeat the missing Zombot(s).
 * If it's any other zombie, simply play any level after their initial encounter. This applies to multiple zombies at once, even to those not in the level chosen.
 * Occasionally, a Pinata Party or Endless Zone can resolve the issue as well.

No Achievement Glitch
''This one is very similar to "Not In Almanac" glitch, and also must be done on wi-fi devices. It was tested only on Android.''

To obtain this, basically do the same thing as above but with an achievement for beating a level. You won't get the achievement until redone for Gargantuar levels. To obtain those like "Nut Un-Common", beat the level before the one needed to be beaten. Also, another account may solve the problem.

Multiple plantings Glitch
''Note: This glitch was found in the Android version of the game. It may not work on other devices.''

This glitch can be performed if the device has extreme lag or if the player is using a mouse that double clicks automatically. This glitch occurs in any level. The player will select any plant they choose to plant. While the lag is still persistent, try to place the plant in another location. Repeat if necessary. Due to the lag, the game takes time to process the code in which the player is able to plant multiple plants of the same type without waiting for the recharge time (on regular levels) or wait for a new seed packet to arrive (conveyor belt). Do note that this glitch will spend sun if it is not in a conveyor belt level, the amount of sun spent will be the sun cost of the plant times how many duplicates of the plants you have planted. This glitch can be useful in high level in Terror From Tomorrow like 130 and up, which can have extreme lag which is a situation in which where this glitch can take place. If this glitch is attempted in Bulb Bowling, it crashes the game.
 * Power Lily
 * Jalapeno
 * Cherry Bomb
 * Squash
 * Tile Turnip
 * Other plants with an instant kill ability
 * Any plants with a plant boosted seed packet (The deadly ones like Laser Bean, etc.)

Mower Launch saves your Lawnmower Glitch
This must be done on an Endless Zone. Make a lawnmower go away manually by tapping and holding. You can see that the lawnmower is present in the next level.

You need the Mower Launch upgrade to do this glitch, and it may not work all the time.

Multiple Plant Food Glitch
''Note: This glitch was found in the Android version of the game. It may not work on other devices.''

This glitch works similarly to the Multiple Plantings glitch. Whenever the lag starts and persists, select the Plant Food (if one is available). Try to give it on as many plants as possible. When the lag subsides, the plants that have contact with the plant food will begin to take effect. Do note that this glitch will spend plant food if you have more than 1 plant food and can be used more than the amount of the actual plant food you have. This is more useful if you only have one plant food. This glitch can be useful in conjuction with plants planted on Power Tiles.

More than one World Key Glitch
You will have two or more World Keys even though you unlocked all worlds.

Beat Far Future - Day 8.
 * 1) Beat Wild West - Day 8.
 * 2) Unlock the Far Future
 * 3) The World Key will not turn to zero, but rather stay one.
 * 1) You will have two World Keys!

This specific glitch does not apply all the time and sometimes is does not happens in the same world.

The same glitch happens in the Travel Log update.

Squash lands on a Grave Glitch
This glitch only works on Piñata parties filled with graves. If you use Plant Food on a squash, and a Tomb Raiser Zombie creates a grave on the space the squash was on, the squash will land on the grave.

Citrons, Spikeweed and Chomper still attacking Zombots
After defeating the Zombot Tomorrow-tron or Zombot Plank Walker, pick up the trophy or money bag and go through the dialogue. After the dialogue, all charged Citrons or Spikeweeds under or within range of Zomboss will attack. This does not work with other plants. Chomper will also bite Zombots after they are defeated.

Change zombies with the Zen Garden
Note: It only works on Endless Zones.

This can be used to get your high Score!
 * 1) Go to any Endless Zone.
 * 2) Enter the Zen Garden.
 * 3) Exit it.
 * 4) And now the zombies will be changed.

Bernie the Bee Glitch
There is also a glitch where Bernie the Bee sleeps between the third and fourth Zen Garden pots or over the pipe or sometimes it sleeps inverted or backwards.

Tile Turnip duplication Glitch
This is a glitch where Tile Turnips, while spinning in the ground, can be planted on with another Tile Turnip, even while spinning. This can only be done on Last Stand.
 * 1) On a Last Stand level, plant a Tile Turnip.
 * 2) Then quickly, plant another Tile Turnip on the same space (using Plant Food or an Imitater to avoid the cooldown) before the first Tile Turnip turns into a power tile.
 * 3) You can see that you planted two at the same spot, but it will take 250 sun off you.
 * 4) This can also happen if you plant an Imitater Tile Turnip and then a normal one.

Squash on Spikeweed/Spikerock Glitch
Note: This only works on Kung-Fu World Day 9, 15 and Last Stand levels.


 * 1) Place a Spikeweed/Spikerock at the second-most front lane.
 * 2) When the black hole arrives, place a squash infront of the Spikeweed.
 * 3) Now the Squash is on the Spikeweed/Spikerock.

Plants on Rail Glitch
Note: This only works in the Chinese version.
 * 1) Go to a level on Kung-Fu World with minecarts and Qigong Zombies at the same time.
 * 2) Plant any plant on a minecart (and make sure that Qigong Zombie is in the same lane)
 * 3) When a Qigong Zombie starts to pull plants, quickly move the minecart with the plants.
 * 4) You can see that the plants did not follow the minecart, but is pulled by Qigong Zombie and is on a rail.
 * But, if you move a minecart on the plant on the rail, the plant will be back on the minecart.

Note: This also works in the Blade-Wielding Hero battle (Kung-Fu World - Day 30) but wait for it to raise its sword and strike the lawn, causing a shockwave to topple down two plants pushing the front plant two squares away.

Grave Buster busting nothing Glitch
Note: This must be done in Ancient Egypt, Dark Ages or a Pinata Party level if there is the presence of graves and a Grave Buster .


 * 1) Plant a Grave Buster on a grave.
 * 2) Destroy the grave quickly (such as planting an instant kill near the grave, or using Plant Food on an offensive plant near the grave).
 * 3) Your Grave Buster is now busting nothing!

This is not really a glitch, but nothing was programmed into the game when the grave was destroyed but the Grave Buster still sounds like it is removing the grave.

Backwards Prospector Zombie with dynamite Glitch
This is how to get your Prospector Zombie to be backwards and still have its dynamite!


 * 1) Let a Prospector Zombie detonate its dynamite.
 * 2) Use an ice plant on it as it detonates.
 * 3) Its dynamite will be extinguished on its belt while it is backwards.

Spawned cropped zombies Glitch
Wait for Gunpowder Devil, Blade-Wielding Hero or Zombot Dark Dragon to spawn zombies. Certain zombies will be cut off. This glitch only occurs in the Chinese version of the game.

Ignoring the brains Glitch
To do this glitch you have to have in the level:
 * A Zombie Bull;
 * Only one plant on at least one row in the back tiles.
 * At least one lawn mower missing on said row.



When the Zombie Bull launches its rider over the one plant, the Zombie Bull Rider will fly onto the house's property. Once it gets up, the "The Zombies Ate Your Brains!" screen will appear, but the imp will just walk off of the screen instead of doing its eating animation.

Killed zombies eating brains Glitch
If a zombie gets to the player's house, but gets killed in the process, the player will still die, despite the zombie that killed him or her dying as well.

Do not plant here Glitch
Note: This only works in the Chinese version.


 * 1) Go to any level with Pirate Captain Zombie.
 * 2) Wait until its parrot steals a plant.
 * 3) Dig it up while the parrot is flying away.
 * 4) Now you will not be able to plant in the tile in where the plant was before.

Iceberg Lettuce freezes nothing Glitch
Note: This was done on an Ancient Egypt level occurring on July 11, 2014 on an iPod Touch. It may not work on other worlds, levels, or Android devices.


 * 1) Wait for a zombie to be in the tile where a grave/tombstone is and make the zombie almost pass the grave/tombstone.
 * 2) Plant an Iceberg Lettuce on the title in front of the grave/tombstone.
 * 3) The Iceberg Lettuce will try to freeze the zombie, but instead it will disappear.

The Iceberg Lettuce will also disappear when a zombie dies right before the plant tries to freeze it.

No Star Glitch
Note: This must be done on a Pirate Seas level when the objective is: "Don't let the zombies trample the flowers", and it only works in the Chinese version.


 * 1) Use the Coconut Cannon on a Swashbuckler Zombie while it is near the lawn.
 * 2) When The coin bag appears in the screen, tap it.
 * 3) It says in the Screen "You missed the Star" message instead of "You got a STAR!"

Swashbuckler Zombie tramples the flowers Glitch
Note: This only works in the Chinese version.


 * 1) Open a Pirate Seas level when it says "Don't let the zombies trample the flowers".
 * 2) Plant a Wall-nut, Tall-nut, or White Radish near the water.
 * 3) Make the Swashbuckler Zombie land on the Lawn.
 * 4) He will be on the lawn and the message says on top "Don't let the zombies trample the flowers!"

Magnifying Grass crash
This only works in the Chinese version.


 * 1) Go to Far Future and select Day 7.
 * 2) If the icon from Magnifying Grass appears enter the level.
 * 3) Touch start level and the game will crash.

Stolen Tile Turnip Gitch
(As of 2.7.1, it can still be planted. But when stolen its sun cost decreases.) Note: This glitch was only tested on an iOS device.


 * 1) Go to any level with a Pirate Captain Zombie.
 * 2) Wait until its parrot tries to steal a plant.
 * 3) Once the parrot is about to steal the plant, plant a Tile Turnip on the tile where the parrot is.
 * 4) The parrot will steal the Tile Turnip.

It will get glitched and it won't recharge or can't be placed.

Costumes and no costumes

 * 1) Open any level
 * 2) Choose a plant without a costume
 * 3) Plant this plant in a level (Do not finish the level)
 * 4) Get this plant's costume then go back to the level
 * 5) Plant this plant again

You will find there are some plants with costumes and some without.

This is Similar to the Spikerock Costume Glitch.

The Yeti lost its lunchbox Glitch
Note: This glitch occurred in the International version.

When you are fighting a Treasure Yeti, if you kill it with a boosted Sun Bean, the yeti will drop nothing. This may not work with other plants.

Double treasure drop
There is a glitch where you can kill the Treasure Yeti twice in one level, without the Treasure Yeti appearing twice.

Requirements:
 * A boosted Citron
 * A Last Stand level with a Treasure Yeti on it.
 * 1) Pick the boosted Citron in the last stand level, and then other plants that can fill the other slots.
 * 2) Plant the boosted Citron on the lane or nearest place where the Yeti is.
 * 3) The zombies and the Yeti will get flung away with the plasma, so then the Treausre Yeti drops the lunchbox!
 * 4) Play the level again and kill the Treasure Yeti again, Treausre Yeti drops another lunchbox!

Dark Ages Tombstones spawn at the extreme right Glitch
There is a glitch in Dark Ages where gravestones spawn at the right end of the device's screen. The frequency of this glitch is unknown.

Flying plants
This must be done on Pirate Seas.
 * 1) Let a Zombie Parrot steal a plant.
 * 2) Plant a Blover when it is flying up.
 * 3) The Parrot will leave the plant on the screen.
 * 4) After sometime, the plant flies up by itself.

I won't give your reward Glitch
The frequency of this glitch is very rare. It is done on both Android and iOS devices.

Sometimes when playing normal levels, the game doesn't give the player the plant as the reward, so the player cannot get the plant.

Switch minecart plants
This can only be done on the Chinese version
 * 1) Have the Blade-Wielding Hero move a plant to the minecart tracks.
 * 2) Drag the minecarts down.
 * 3) If done correctly, there will be two plants on the minecart.
 * 4) Drag the minecart back to the original place and the plants have swapped.

Power Lily and Wizard Zombie Glitch
When a Wizard Zombie turns a Power Lily into a sheep, The Power Lily will give a plant food and become a sheep. When the Wizard Zombie is killed, the Power Lily will turn back and give another Plant Food.

Flying Imp ate your brains Glitch
When a Barrel Roller Zombie's Barrel is destroyed while it is bounced back by Spring Bean, the Imps will fly forward towards the left end corner, and the player will lose.

Invincible Imp Glitch
There is a glitch when a Zombie Bull is killed first after launching Zombie Bull Rider, sometimes the Zombie Bull Rider becomes invincible and will not get damaged while eating a Tall-nut. It can be fixed by digging up the Tall-nut or just by waiting for it to be eaten.

Airborne Imp Glitch
This happens when an Imp is launched and gets buttered.


 * 1) Have a Kernel-pult in a lane with a Gargantuar, Zombie Bull, or Imp Cannon.
 * 2) When the Imp is thrown, the Kernel-pult launches butter on the Imp and the Imp will stay in midair.

Sheep on Tombstone Glitch
This glitch happens when a Grave Buster turns into a sheep while it is removing a grave. This is how to carry it out.
 * 1) Choose a level where Grave Buster and Wizard Zombie can meet, such as Dark Ages - Night 13.
 * 2) Try to make sure there are no other plants on the lawn.
 * 3) When the Wizard Zombie appears, plant the Grave Buster on one of the graves.
 * 4) The Wizard Zombie will turn the Grave Buster into a sheep and it will be on the grave.

Hitting a zombie behind in the selection Glitch
This can be done on Wild West - Day 4.


 * 1) Open Wild West - Day 4.
 * 2) Plant the first Peashooter at whatever lane the zombie is in.
 * 3) When the zombie falls down, the Peashooter will shoot 1 to 2 extra peas. One pea will pass the dead body completely.
 * 4) When the pea is still going forward, the zombies in the next wave will show.
 * 5) The pea will hit a zombie in the selection!

Fainted buttered zombie Glitch
This can be done on any level where Chili Bean and Kernel-pult are chosen.


 * 1) Plant a Chili Bean near a zombie.
 * 2) If timed correctly, a Kernel-pult could butter the zombie while it is eating it or right after it just ate it.
 * 3) Sometimes after the butter wears off, the zombie will stay alive and continue to move on instead of fainting and dying.

Prospector Zombie loses head Glitch
If you kill a Prospector Zombie right as the dynamite blows up, when the zombie lands, its head will pop off.
 * It's just a visual glitch. Right before the Prospector Zombie jumps, and you kill it, it shows the animation after it lands and its head falls of backward and dies.

Background swap Glitch
This background glitch can occur rarely, but can happen by exiting levels and such. Backgrounds show the night background (which is supposed to be in Dark Ages), and the day one in Dark Ages (which is supposed to be in other worlds).

Zombot Plank Walker and Spikeweed
Dr. Zomboss will spawn zombies right in front of your house. This was tested on Android and iPod Touch device.


 * 1) Glitchz.png Pirate Seas - Day 25.
 * 2) Place a Spikeweed in front or near your house.
 * 3) Wait until Dr. Zomboss is on the same lane as the Spikeweed.
 * 4) Place Plant Food on that Spikeweed.
 * 5) Dr. Zomboss will stay there and spawn zombies!

Note: The frequency of this glitch is ALWAYS, so it's not recommended to test it when you want to beat the level.

Flying Imp Cannon glitch

 * 1) Go to Dead Man's Booty. (Or a Pirate Seas level that features it.)
 * 2) When you hear an Imp Cannon, save and quit.
 * 3) Go back to the level.
 * 4) The Imp Cannon will fly up in the air and eat your brains. However, this may not always happen. Only occurs in Piñata Party.

Floating Imp Head Glitch
Note: This is in the Chinese version only, and It only appears in the Android version.


 * 1) Go to any Wild West level (Or any daily event challenge with the Wild West).
 * 2) Make sure the Zombie Bull Rider has been flung.
 * 3) A few seconds later, the Zombie Bull Rider's head will be on the Zombie Bull and will be on the lawn!

Small laser Glitch

 * 1) Go onto any level of far future with a Gargantuar Prime.
 * 2) Choose Iceberg Lettuce as one of your plants.
 * 3) When the Gargantuar Prime shoots its laser, immediately plant the Iceberg Lettuce on it.
 * 4) Only half of the laser is sticking out from the Gargantuar Prime.

Double boost Glitch

 * 1) Plant any Sprout
 * 2) After bring the boost, play any level and do not finish it.
 * 3) Save and exit the level.
 * 4) Plant the exact plant which is used. dig if it's not.
 * 5) Wait until you get the boost for it.
 * 6) Now You have double boost for that plant.

Plant Background not being loaded Glitch
Note: The rarity of this glitch is unknown.

Sometimes, in the seed selection screen, the background of the plants (for example, Peashooter uses the Player's House background and the Winter Melon uses the Wild West background) will become a pink square with a big black X under the plant, meaning the texture was not loaded it also happens when the device screen is turned on and off while the game is loading.

Hidden sprout Glitch

 * 1) Go to any level.
 * 2) When a huge wave of zombies appear, use a Power Toss.
 * 3) Try and kill every zombie on the lawn.
 * 4) Sometimes, a sprout will drop from a zombie.
 * 5) The sprout has a chance of being hidden on the right side of the screen.
 * 6) The only way to get the sprout is to finish the level.

It also works without power toss, but kill it quickly before they reach a tile.

No Seed Packet Glitch

 * 1) Go to any world map with plants you don't have.
 * 2) Tap on the seed packet of a plant.
 * 3) Tap "view on almanac"
 * 4) You can now read about it without seeing the seed packet.

It also seems to have an empty slot that can't be filled at the end.

Note: This glitch was "added" in the 2.7 update.

Freeze imp
For some odd reason, the butter from Kernel-pult does not appear on the Imp's head when and after it gets frozen.

Floating Skeleton Glitch
Requirements:
 * Spring Bean or Power Toss
 * Lightning Reed or Power Zap

NOTE: Power Zap and Power Toss won't work together

On any level with water in the Pirate Seas, bounce a zombie into the water. A split second before this, a zombie has to be zapped. If done correctly, a floating sprite of the zapped zombie will appear where the zombie would've landed.

Unplantable space glitch
This extremely dangerous glitch occurs when a Wizard Zombie transforms a plant into a sheep. If the Wizard is killed, and a zombie eats the plant right when it's been transformed back, (or the player digs it up) you won't be able to plant on the space the plant was on. This is likely caused by the game not having enough time to register that a sheep is no longer on the space. This glitch can be fixed by killing any other Wizards in screen.
 * This glitch was done on Dark Ages - Night 16. It is unknown if it works on other levels.

Flashback Glitch

 * 1) Plant two Tile Turnips on the same spot
 * 2) Do the same as before.
 * 3) The cost will go from 1000 to 500.
 * 4) You can do this as many times as you want and it will always halve.

Death Screen Glitch
Occasionally, after the zombies eat your brain and you press the "Retry" button, the death screen (including the brain, the "Exit to map" button, the "Retry" button and the Zen Garden button) will remain, once you restart the level.

Zombie sounds while viewing world map
When using the "Save and Exit" button to go to the world map, sometimes zombie growls can be heard.

Imp noises when paused

 * 1) Play a Level with many Imps in it.
 * 2) Pause the game.
 * 3) Exit the level and go back.
 * 4) When you return, do not resume.
 * 5) If you listen closely, the Imps will make noises.

So how did I die?
To do this you have to kill a zombie just before it enters your house. The result will be an empty death screen.

Disjointed Surfer arm
There is a glitch that if you plant a Kernel-pult in front of a Surfer Zombie and it butters it at the right timing, the Surfer Zombie's elbow seems to have split.

Jetpack Zombies fainted
This works in both versions (Chinese and international).


 * 1) Choose a level with Jetpack Zombies.
 * 2) Plant an Infi-nut and put Plant Food on it.
 * 3) Let the Jetpack Zombies eat the Force Field and wait some zombies too to help eating.
 * 4) While they eat it put a Chili Bean on a Jetpack Zombie's place.
 * 5) When they eat it, the Jetpack Zombie will eat the Chili Bean and it will faint.

Imp Outside The Lawn
This happens when Gargantuar is outside the lawn in Pirate Seas and fires an Imp.


 * 1) Put Plant Food on Spring Bean when Gargantuar reach 9th column on upmost or downmost lane in Pirate Seas.
 * 2) Gargantuar will land on the zombie ship. Use Cherry Bomb on him before it falls into water.
 * 3) It will fire an Imp onto 3rd column. Imp will walk forward normally causing troubles to player.

No Bone for You
The glitch is only possible in Ancient Egypt by playing a level where there are Tomb Raiser Zombies.


 * 1) Wait for them to appear.
 * 2) When it is throwing its bone, quickly plant anything on that square.
 * 3) The bone will disappear, but no Grave will appear.

Frozen Plant Glitch
Here's how it works:


 * 1) Go to a level with Octo Zombie.
 * 2) Quickly right before its octopus lands on a plant, feed it Plant Food.
 * 3) Your plant food will be spent, but not take effect because the octopus is preventing it.
 * 4) When the octopus is defeated, the plant's Plant Food ability will take effect.
 * 5) After it is done, the plant's animation will freeze and do nothing. It cannot be defeated, because it is still in its Plant Food state and is invincible. It is unknown how the glitch can be fixed.

This was tested on the January 17, 2014 Pinata Party with the Pea Pod.

Piñata Party crash Glitch
When playing a certain Piñata Party, there is a chance that the game crashes upon placing a plant. Once reopening the app, it will say that you have lost the Piñata Party and have to pay to play again from the beginning.

Frozen Chard Guard with Leaf Out Of Ice Glitch


This glitch occurs when a Chard Guard is frozen either by the frosty wind affect, the Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC ice trunk attack, and the Hunter Zombie's snowballs. When a Chard Guard repels any zombie, but then gets frozen, you will see a frozen Chard Guard and one of its leaves out of the ice block. The leaf, however, doesn't move.

Frozen Laser Bean Glitch

 * If a Laser Bean gets frozen in Frostbite Caves while shooting, its laser will also be frozen. This laser will not do any damage; this only happens because the laser is technically part of the plant, not a projectile. After being unfrozen, it will continue to shoot and deal damage as normal.

Frozen Yeti Imp Glitch

 * Occasionally, in Icebound Battleground and other levels with Troglobites, the level will not end even when all the zombies are dead. This is because there are frozen Yeti Imps not on the lawn that have not been pushed by the Troglobite because the Troglobite has been killed, or because there was an ice floe in the way. Since the frozen Yeti Imps are not technically on the lawn, they can not die at the end of the level like normal frozen zombies and can not be attacked by plants because plants can not attack zombies that are not on the lawn. This causes the level to never end.

On the Tombstone Glitch
Use a boosted Bonk Choy in any level which has Tomb Raiser Zombie. If you're lucky when placing Bonk Choy, the Tomb Raiser Zombie will create a tombstone at that Bonk Choy when it is using its boost animation. This also works with the Repeater.

Banana Launcher glitch
This glitch will happen only in Frostbite Caves, and it needs freezing wind or Hunter Zombie.
 * Drag the Banana Launcher to aim.
 * Wait until the Banana Launcher is frozen.
 * Then release your finger. The banana should fall from sky, but Banana Launcher will not play it's animation (because it's frozen). The banana won't do anything.
 * Unfreeze the Banana Launcher. It will play it's shooting animation, and stop with a green body and smiled face. However, it will never give new bananas to shoot. You can fix it by giving Plant Food to the Banana Laucher.

Zen Garden Growing Period Glitch
Sometimes, the time for waiting for plants to grow is insanely long.
 * This may be caused by changing the date.

Zapped Chicken on Potato Mine Glitch


To do this glitch, you must be on any level with Zombie Chickens and Potato Mines together. When a Zombie Chicken reaches a Potato Mine and then it gets zapped by a Lightning Reed or Power Zap, the Potato Mine will explode and will kill nothing if there are no nearby zombies on its path.

Double Seagulls
This glitch must have 3 criteria in order to occur: When you kill those zombies with the Blover, occasionally, there will be double the amount of seagulls flying off than there were zombies killed.
 * 1) You must be playing a Pirate Seas level with Seagull Zombies.
 * 2) The said zombies must be the bottom lane above water.
 * 3) The Blover is one of your chosen plants.

This glitch does not seem to occur in any other lane, even if you're killing them in multiple lanes at once. Also, it tends not to occur above 3 zombies, which results in 6 seagulls total.

List of fixed glitches

 * Giving a Twin Sunflower Plant Food after exiting and entering a level gave 600 sun instead of 250 before the 2.7 update.
 * Exiting and entering a level could also make Spikerocks have an extremely high amount of health, though it could degrade and die normally eventually. This was also fixed in the 2.7 update.
 * In Endless Zones, the fourth card could be obtained for free by selecting a revealed card and then selecting the fourth card and then accepting the same revealed card, but it gave the player the fourth card. This was also fixed in the 2.7 update.
 * The cropped spawned zombies glitch above previously affected zombies coming out of Dark Ages tombstones.
 * Entering the Zen Garden in an Endless Zone could previously give all possible plants, such as Grave Busters and E.M.Peaches, even if they would be absolutely useless in that world.
 * There was a glitch where the Blover's recharge speed was much longer than intended.
 * Plant Food was unable to refresh a seed packet in the 2.7 update.
 * In the 3.0 update, Banana Launcher could be used when some level is complete and when choosing plants for Big Wave Beach Day 23.
 * In the 3.0 update, Banana Launcher could be used when it gets sucked in by the Zombot Sharktonic Sub.
 * In the 3.4 update, Fume-shroom could attack in a 1x5 area instead of 1x4 and deal splash damage in the lanes above and below. Its Plant Food ability remained the same.
 * In the 3.4 update, zombies' sound effects or the music cannot be heard, although pausing and unpausing the game fixed this.