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Zombie Trap is the twentieth and final mini-game in the Nintendo DSiWare version of Plants vs. Zombies. To win the level, the player must trap at least 35 zombies in up to seven cages by using brains as bait.

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Overview[]

The objective is to use the stylus to drag a brain across the screen to attract incoming zombies. When zombies are attracted to the red rectangle in the center of the lawn, you can tap the cage at the upper right of the screen, signaling a group of ravens at the top screen to drop a cage down to the zombies. When you trapped the zombies, the ravens fly into the cage and beat the zombies to death. If you trap at least five zombies in the cage, their brain amount and number of cages increase by one. You will start with three brains and seven cages. You need to trap and kill at least 35 zombies to win.

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Plants vs Zombies DS Zombie Trap

When Zombie Trap is selected on the mini-games menu, Crazy Dave will tell the player their record for the greatest number of zombies the player caught with one cage.

Strategies[]

It is recommended to have a some clearance/space between the brain and the zombies attracting towards it for you to be able to have enough time to tap the cage and trap the zombies inside of it, making quick reflexes not necessary as this mini-game relies more of the strategic placement of brain attracting the zombies and the timing to catch the zombies inside the cage. It is not necessary to hold the brain when trapping the zombies inside the cage, so you can simply leave the brain untouched by the touch screen while trapping zombies inside the cage provided that the zombies will not eat the brain.

While it is possible to kill zombies in-between the cage on the red rectangle, it however does not count towards the number of caught zombies inside the cage and therefore does not help in increasing their brain amount and number of cages. The in-game message will even display a message reminding players to trap zombies inside the cage and not on the red rectangle.

Left-handed players have the advantage in this mini-game as they can simply use their dominant hand to control the brain and simply use their right thumb/index finger to tap the cage on the top-right side of the touch screen. Although, the difficultly of pulling this off may vary from the size and weight of the DSi/3DS/2DS to how capable the player is when holding their system that way.

Bungee Zombies sometimes drop zombies right in front of your house, but fortunately, they can still attract them with the brains before they go inside.

Related achievement[]

Attention Deficit
Attention Deficit
Earn a trophy in each Mini-game.

Trivia[]

  • Gargantuar and Imp are separated, meaning that the Imp appears without the Gargantuar needing to throw it.
    • The Gargantuars do not have Imps on their back and appear on their second degrade when they appear on the lawn.
      • This is likely because the Gargantuars would count as two zombies of they had Imps on their backs
  • It is the only level where zombies appear in their degraded form.
  • It is the only level in which Bungee Zombies can drop zombies on the leftmost column.
  • It is one of two levels without any plants in Plants vs. Zombies. The other one is Zombiquarium.
  • It can be used for successful gold farming. If the player is still missing some mini-game trophies and can replay the level, the last zombie will drop the Gold Sunflower Trophy and five diamonds. The player will not get the trophy, but the diamonds will be saved.
  • It is the only mingame to be exclusive to the DSIWare version of Plants vs. Zombies.
  • This mini-game is no longer playable to new users because the DSIWare version of the game has now been discontinued, however users with the game already installed can still play it, so long as it has not been deleted since.
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