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- For the mini-game in Plants vs. Zombies, see Beghouled.
Beghouled (pronounced as "Bigooled") is a Brain Buster in Plants vs. Zombies 2 exclusive to Modern Day. It is based on the mini-game from Plants vs. Zombies with the same name. It is playable on Day 8, Day 13, Day 22, and Day 27. There also used to be an Epic Quest based on this Brain Buster, called Beghouled Blitz, and a 2016 Piñata Party event dedicated to Beghouled called Beghouled Beyond, which ran from July 26 to August 10.
Origins[]
"Beghouled" is a play on words of Bejeweled, another game made by PopCap, and a song sung by Taylor Swift from her album Midnights, and "ghoul", referring to the zombies one must fight off. Crazy Dave even indirectly mentions the former.
Overview[]
Gameplay remains essentially similar to that of the first game: the lawn will be filled with plants, and the player can swap adjacent plants to form a match of at least three to make them to disappear and gather sun. When matched, the plants will disappear and replacements will drop down from the top of the screen; making longer matches, creating multiple matches with one swap (known as a combo) or creating additional matches from dropped plants (known as a cascade) will award greatly increased amount of sun for each individual match compared to a standard match. When a plant is eaten, a crater will be formed which prevents further plants from filling that tile. The sun gathered from matches can be used to upgrade the types of plants present on the field (as well as any other plant of the same type dropping down) instead of the normal ones. The goal of the mini-game is to reach the specified number of matches while preventing the zombies from making it across the lawn. More and stronger zombies will spawn as time goes on. There are also notable changes in the mini-game:
- Creating longer matches (four or more) will cause the moved plant to perform its Plant Food effect. It can still be moved and will not disappear if used to create another match as long as the Plant Food effect is still active (unless all plants in the match are in their effect; this can be most easily observed with Puff-shroom). Notably, boosted Wall-nut, Tall-nut and Endurian cannot be removed normally as long as their armor is on, and will only disappear if matched together (doing this will also yield an increased amount of sun).
- The player will receive a unique set of Power Ups, which consists of Power Zap and two special ones: Power Shovel allows the player to remove a plant or fill in a crater, while Power Shuffle will reset the entire board, otherwise only done if there is no longer any possible match on the field. The former is also the only way to remove craters in the mini-game, as the action can no longer be bought with sun. However, in Chinese version, Power Shovel and Power Shuffle are not available, and Power Zap has been replaced by Tactical Cuke.
- Some plants have received branching upgrade paths which are mutually exclusive, which means that once a path is picked, the other is unavailable for the rest of the level.
Prices[]
Note that not every plant upgrade is available in a level.
Modern Day[]
Base | Upgrade 1 | Upgrade 2 |
---|---|---|
(2000 sun) | (3000 sun) | |
(2000 sun) | (4000 sun) | |
(2500 sun) | (5000 sun) | |
(2000 sun) | ||
(1000 sun) | ||
(1000 sun) | ||
(2000 sun) | ||
(500 sun) | ||
(2000 sun) | (4500 sun) |
Beghouled Blitz[]
Aloe, Salut![]
Base | Upgrade 1 | Upgrade 2 |
---|---|---|
(2000 sun) | (4000 sun) | |
(2000 sun) | ||
(1000 sun) | (1000 sun) | |
(1000 sun) | ||
(2000 sun) | ||
Time Twister[]
Base | Upgrade 1 | Upgrade 2 |
---|---|---|
(2000 sun) | (3000 sun) | |
(1500 sun) | ||
(1000 sun) | ||
(1000 sun) | ||
(1500 sun) | ||
(3000 sun) | ||
(2000 sun) | ||
(2000 sun) | ||
(3000 sun) |
Beghouled Beyond[]
Penny's Pursuit[]
Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)[]
Ancient Egypt[]
Plant | Price (in sun) |
---|---|
Peashooter | N/A |
Cabbage-pult | N/A |
Iceberg Lettuce | N/A |
Wall-nut | N/A |
Bloomerang | N/A |
Pirate Seas[]
Plant | Price (in sun) |
---|---|
Dandelion | N/A |
Pomegranate-pult | N/A |
Spring Bean | N/A |
Coconut Cannon | N/A |
Spikerock | N/A |
Other[]
Plant | Price (in sun) | Other Information |
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Reset | 50 | Reset the board (like Power Shuffle) |
Wheelbarrow | 75 | Filled in a crater (like Power Shovel) |
Potato Mine | 25 | Plantable variant. Only appeared in Ancient Egypt 8-4 and Pirate Seas 10-4 |
Wall-nut | 50 | Plantable variant. Only appeaed in Ancient Egypt 8-4 and Pirate Seas 10-4 |
Power Ups[]
Power Shuffle[]
Description: Use Power Shuffle in Beghouled to shuffle plants for more matches!
Cost: 200 coins
Duration: N/A
Power Shovel[]
Description: Use Power Shovel in Beghouled to remove plants and fill in craters!
Cost: 100 coins
Duration: N/A
Power Zap[]
Description: Hold your finger down on a zombie to electrocute it!
Cost: 800 coins
Duration: four seconds
Tactical Cuke (China only)[]
Description: Explodes dealing 7200 damage to all zombies on the screen.
Cost: 15 diamonds + 10 x the number you used
Duration: Instant
Walkthroughs[]
Plants vs. Zombies 2[]
Modern Day[]
Beghouled Blitz (Archived content)[]
Aloe, Salut! (Archived content)[]
Time Twister (Archived content)[]
Beghouled Beyond (Archived content)[]
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)[]
Modern Day[]
Plants vs. Zombies Online (China only) (Archived content)[]
Ancient Egypt[]
Pirate Seas[]
Trivia[]
- If the player has one of the plants boosted in the Zen Garden and makes a match with them, they will not perform the boost (unless it's by normal Beghouled gameplay).
- When the level ends, the player will still keep the boost until they use it in a level.
- If the plant with a boost is able to be upgraded, upgrading said plant will not make them lose their boost.
- The level starts with the text "Ready...Set...SWAP!" instead of "Ready...Set...PLANT!", unlike the first game.
- If the player manages to max out their plants before playing Day 8 of Modern Day, the player may encounter a glitch that makes the upgrades unusable as they are locked. It only happens on Adventure Mode fortunately.
- In Chinese version of this Brain Buster, all Beghouled exclusive Power Ups and Power Zap are unavailable. Instead, the only Power Up that player can use is Tactical Cuke.
V · T · E |
Recurring | Special Delivery · Locked and Loaded · Save Our Seeds · Last Stand † |
World exclusive | Cannons Away · Not OK Corral · Sun Bombs · Dark Alchemy · Bulb Bowling* · Beghouled |
China exclusive | Mummy Memory · Powder Keg · Bronze Matrix · All by Oneself · Zomboss Test Lab · Fright Theater · Tit for Tat · Oak Archery · Gluttonous Hungry Guacodile · Vasebreaker · Plant Maze · Dodo Adventure · It's Raining Seeds · One Gun Guard · Air Raid · Across the Lawn · Dark Stormy Night · Unsodded · Whack-a-Zombie · Statue-shuffling* · Ninjimp Adventures |
†: Strategy page *: Unconfirmed name |