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The Scarecrow

The backyard's spooky guardian calls Gnomlins, and when it falls apart even more of them pop out of its straw!

BossSmasher

Health: 5,000
Speed: 0.07 tiles a second
Closet to bed: 137s unopposed
Bite: 200 damage a second
Reaching the bed costs: all
First seen: Level 200

The Scarecrow. It uses its power at 2 seconds and again at 7, against a small defense: low-level shooters, Pillow Walls and a Block Tower.

What it does.

Smasher: it doesn't chew a toy in its way. It winds up for 3s and destroys it outright, whatever its toughness. It can't be swallowed.
Splits: when it is defeated it leaves 3 × Gnomlin.
Summons: 1 × Gnomlin every 15s.

Wide awake.

On its boss nights after the first trip through the house (from level 260)On its story night and on Hard, it wakes up for real when its health bar is down to half: it stops for 1.2 seconds, roars, and from then on uses a stronger version of its power.

The Scarecrow. Brought to half health, it stops, wakes up and roars, then uses the stronger power.

"Gnomlins, two at a time!"

At half health the Scarecrow is wide awake: it calls its Gnomlins two at a time. Keep a toy in your back row!

Power	Asleep	Wide awake
Summoned at a time	1	2
Health on the nights it can wake	×1	×0.8

On the nights it can wake up it has less health to begin with (the last row), tuned so those boss nights are as hard as before.

Its boss nights.

The Scarecrow waits at the end of every chapter set in The Backyard: first at level 200, then every 240 levels. Its health grows with the level.The Scarecrow waits at the end of The Backyard, at level 200 of the story, and again on Hard Mode.

Night	Room	Health (with armor and shield)	Of its base health	Wakes up	Gems (first win)	Coins (first win)
Level 200	The Backyard	53,597	×10.72	–	28	982
Level 200, Hard	The Backyard	107,194	×21.44	–	14	982
Level 440	The Backyard	79,744	×15.95	Yes	50	1,955
Level 680	The Backyard	90,678	×18.14	Yes	50	2,874
Level 920	The Backyard	96,268	×19.25	Yes	50	3,760
Level 1,160	The Backyard	101,955	×20.39	Yes	50	4,622
Level 1,400	The Backyard	106,703	×21.34	Yes	50	5,468
Level 5,000	The Backyard	142,309	×28.46	Yes	50	17,107

Night	Room	Health (with armor and shield)	Of its base health	Wakes up	Coins (first win)	Boss bonus, in coins
Level 200	The Backyard	42,877	×8.58	Yes	982	2,184
Level 200, Hard	The Backyard	85,755	×17.15	Yes	982	1,092 or more

On PC a battle's coins are doubled on top of this. The boss bonus is what the phone game pays in gems, paid in coins at your progress's rate: a Hard win's is worth more the further your story has got.

On Hard a boss has twice its health on the same level's normal night (in the PC game a little less where only the Hard night wakes it up), on top of a harder night.

Beating it.

The game's tip

The Scarecrow bursts into Gnomlins when defeated. Keep a toy in your back row!

Big blasts

Party Popper

Toy Train

Water Balloon

Numbers from the game's own data, version 1.0.0 as of November 13, 2026. Toy and nightmare numbers are the base values: every night scales the nightmares to its level (how). You are reading for the phone game (iPhone, iPad, Android): the switch at the top shows the PC game's numbers.You are reading for the PC game, coming to Steam: the switch at the top goes back to the phone game's numbers.