Whack a Zombie



"It's just like huntin' squirbos."

--Crazy Dave

Whack a Zombie is a Mini-game based on Adventure Mode level 2-5, a Bonus Level. The player uses a mallet to whack zombies that rise from Graves all over the right half of the lawn.

Strategy
Use your mallet to whack zombies to get coins and Sun with which you can plant Ice-shrooms (Cherry Bombs in the Adventure Mode and iPhone version), Potato Mines, and Grave Busters. Use the Grave Busters to destroy the Graves furthest towards your house, working backwards towards the edge of the lawn. Use your Ice-shrooms\ Cherry Bombs wisely, as their recharge time stops them from being used more than twice. It is usually also a good idea to plant Potato Mines in front of the Lawn Mowers to stop single zombies. As in Wall-nut Bowling, Zombiesthumb|right|300px|Video of a good game of Whack a Zombie. take one hit, Conehead Zombies two, and Buckethead Zombiesthree. Since the zombies walk faster and faster as the level progresses, you will probably need an Ice-shroom right before the final wave. Also, when the level is complete you can, until you run out of sun, plant Grave Busters upon the remaining graves to earn coins.

Gold Farming
This strategy is simple: use Grave Busters to remove as many graves as you can. If you have enough Sun at the end of the level, don't grab the money bag yet. Eat as many graves as you can, then collect the coins.

Trivia

 * Every time a zombie is killed by the mallet, a small POW! appears where the zombie once was.
 * This POW! also appears in Air Raid when one of the objects Dr. Zomboss throws is shot.
 * It is impossible to remove all of the graves before the final wave of the level, because some time or another a new grave will rise up (and multiple graves can rise up at the same time). But some players who get lucky (with or without cheating) can remove all the graves.Whackpool.jpg
 * If you type the code "dance" it will make the zombies go slower than usual in this Mini-game.
 * However, new zombies will dance fast.
 * This is the only night-time mini-game the plays the "Loonboon" track. However, editing saved data can make a Whack a Zombie on day, pool, fog, roof and roof night. However, your cursor will be invisible.
 * You cannot collect the achievement, "Photosensitive," in the DS and DSi versions of Whack a Zombie.
 * You can use multiple mallets in the iPad version (but not in iPod Touch/iPhone and DS versions), because of non-multitouch or multitouch software.
 * The Achievement, No Fungus Among Us can't be unlocked after you beat this level.
 * This is the first Mini-game where you only have three seed packets on your seed tray, along with Beghouled and Beghouled Twist.
 * This mini-game is present in Android version, but is much shorter than the version on other devices.
 * This and Homerun Derby are the only Mini-games in which a single zombie type can have multiple speeds. The Zombies can walk with speeds ranging from their normal speed to speeds faster than a Football Zombie or an Imp (i,Zombie version)
 * It is rumored that the DS, iPod Touch and iPad versions of this minigame are much easier than any other versions. This may be due to the fact that tapping a touch screen is much faster than having to drag a cursor across the game screen.
 * The difficulty of this game in the Xbox and PS3 versions is harder, due to the fact that the player needs to drag the frame to the zombie, then click on a button to kill a zombie. (Since there is effectively a maximum speed at which you can drag the frame from one lane to the opposite lane on the lawn).
 * If you're not playing the Xbox or PS3 versions, you can spend your remaining sun on Grave Busters, just to get the coins. You can keep spending until you have no sun left.
 * You can also find Zen Garden plants here.
 * This refers the game Whack a Mole.
 * If you modified the saved data from Dr. Zomboss's Revenge to Whack a Zombie, the Zombot will be attackable, and will disappear only in one hit.
 * Dr. Zomboss will also disappear.
 * The zombies's speed progress as the level progress.