Grow Comeback Order: Dumbbell, Heart, Crowd, Hair
Dumbbell, heart, crowd, the HAIR flask, armor, then sword. Two 2018 write-ups list that Grow Comeback order. Heart first also cleared on the live build.
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The order
Jay Is Games commenter SuperSoda and the Zelda.zone guide list the same six clicks. SuperSoda writes People, "HAIR"-flask, and Armour. Zelda.zone writes Crowd, Hair, and Armor.
- Dumbbell (bottom left)
- Heart (top middle)
- Crowd (bottom right)
- HAIR flask (bottom middle)
- Armor (top left)
- Sword (top right)
Heart, then the dumbbell, with the same last four, also cleared on the live build we opened on November 10, 2026.
▶ Try eight items nextGROW Comeback is the short Eyezmaze puzzle about a retired hero and a purple monster. Six panels sit under the scene. You click each one once. The order above is the one two 2018 write-ups share, and it is the one that cleared when we played the current page at eyezmaze.com.
We built Island Evolution on the same kind of choice: one click places one thing, and later clicks decide how far the earlier ones grow. The orders we checked in our own rule table are on the order solver.
What is the Grow Comeback order?
Dumbbell, heart, crowd, the green bottle labeled HAIR, armor, then sword. SuperSoda posted that list on the Jay Is Games review on July 18, 2018. Zelda.zone posted the same six clicks on July 23, 2018.
| Step | SuperSoda, July 18, 2018 | Zelda.zone, July 23, 2018 | On the current page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dumbbell | Dumbell | Red dumbbell, bottom left |
| 2 | Heart | Heart | Pink heart, top middle |
| 3 | People | Crowd | Three people, bottom right |
| 4 | "HAIR"-flask | Hair | Green bottle labeled HAIR, bottom middle |
| 5 | Armour | Armor | Gray armor, top left |
| 6 | Sword | Sword | Sword, top right |
Those are names for the same six icons. On November 10, 2026 the panels were in the slots in that table. The game flips the panels face-up in a random sequence at the start of a run. The slots themselves stay put.
What if you click the heart first?
That order also cleared on the build we checked. The last four clicks stay crowd, HAIR flask, armor, sword. Only the dumbbell and the heart trade places.
RamenTheStarSailor wrote it on the Eyezmaze post on June 25, 2018: heart, weights, friends, hair growth, armour, and sword. A comment on the Mahee.com copy of the game lists the same six, with dumbbell for weights and "hair water" for the flask.
We ran both orders on the live page. Each one left the same readout: the dumbbell, the HAIR flask, the armor, the sword, and the crowd at MAX, and the heart one level short of MAX. The game still took the clear.
What is Grow Comeback?
A six-panel browser puzzle by On Nakayama, posted on eyezmaze.com on June 20, 2018. You click panels in an order you choose, and a retired hero grows until he can face the monster again.
The game page says it had been a long time since the last game, that the difficulty is easier, and that there is no secret ending, "but you may find the certain someone, the plumber." The how-to-play text on that page says you finish when every panel's level is max, and that the panels affect each other as they grow.
Wikipedia lists GROW Comeback under the MiniGROW games for June 2018 and cites that Eyezmaze page, dated June 20, 2018. The same article lists GROW Cinderella in October 2016, before it, and GROW Thanks in November 2018, after it. The full list is on what GROW games are.
SuzukaK's review is dated July 18, 2018. It says you have to develop all six traits, credits a crowdfunding campaign after GROW Nano 4, and mentions a concept from something the review calls Grow figure. Five days later, Zelda.zone called the build HTML5. The page we opened in November 2026 still runs in the browser.
TV Tropes summarizes the setup in a few beats. In the intro the hero saves a child from a monster. Time passes, he loses the gear and the hair and puts on weight, and the puzzle is getting him ready for one more fight. The opening screen we saw is a large purple monster facing a small yellow figure.
How is Grow Comeback different from GROW Cube?
Cube has ten items and dates from September 2005. Comeback has six and was posted on June 20, 2018. Cube grows a floating cube. Comeback grows one hero.
| GROW Cube | GROW Comeback | |
|---|---|---|
| Posted | September 2005 | June 20, 2018 |
| Panels | 10 | 6 |
| What you grow | A cube | A retired hero |
| Orders | 3,628,800 | 720 |
Six factorial is 720. Ten factorial is 3,628,800. Jay Is Games dated GROW Cube to September 17, 2005, and its walkthrough lists ten items. The clicks, and how to read the level numbers beside them, are on the GROW Cube order page.
Island Evolution sits between those two sizes. Eight items make 40,320 orders, and three of those orders score 27. The evolution chart is on the page, so the dependencies are readable before you commit. On Comeback you learn a link by watching which panel moved.
Six clicks, then a longer board Comeback is 720 orders. The island is 40,320, with the chart already open. Free in the browser.
▶ See how a run worksWhy is the heart short of MAX?
On a clear, the heart is still one level short when the panels flip. The other five already read MAX. The ending is what brings the heart up.
TV Tropes describes the same beat. The tiles turn over while the heart is still short of MAX, and the run looks failed. Then a supporter, the child from the intro, tries the monster, loses, and that attempt is what pushes the heart to the top.
The official how-to-play line says the game is complete when every panel is at max. If you hit retry the moment the heart looks unfinished, you throw out the clear. Wait through the ending and read the panels again.
Hair-first lists missed the clear when we tried them on November 10, 2026, including the extra orders on the Zelda.zone page and the hair-first comments under the Jay Is Games review. Those lists stay on the pages that posted them. The Eyezmaze page says there is no secret ending, and it invites you to find the plumber. A plumber sequence needs two agreeing sources. This page stops at the two clears above.
Where can you play Grow Comeback?
On the Eyezmaze game page, which was still up on November 10, 2026. Zelda.zone described the July 2018 build as HTML5, and the page we opened still plays in the browser.
Older GROW games had a different trip through the end of Flash. Which of them got an HTML5 rebuild, and which did not, is in what survived after Flash. The rest of Nakayama's site, outside this one puzzle, is on the Eyezmaze games list.
What should you write down after a miss?
The six end levels, and the order you clicked. Change one slot on the next run. A panel that never moved needed something earlier. A panel that climbed and then stopped ran out of turns.
- Write the six clicks and the six end levels before you restart.
- If the heart is the only panel short of MAX, watch the ending before you call it a miss.
- If several panels are short, move one of them earlier and run it again.
- Keep the last four of a clear candidate (crowd, HAIR flask, armor, sword) and test the dumbbell and the heart in both opening orders.
The same one-change habit is written out for the whole genre in the strategy guide. On our island the dependencies are already in the evolution chart, the short version is in the hints section, and the game FAQ covers the scoring.
A board with the chart open Eight items, three perfect orders, score out of 27. Nothing to install.
▶ Play a fresh orderWhere do these facts come from?
- Eyezmaze, GROW Comeback (Browser Game), posted June 20, 2018, for the date, the line that the difficulty is easier, the line that there is no secret ending but you may find the plumber, and the how-to-play text.
- RamenTheStarSailor's comment on the older Eyezmaze GROW Comeback post, June 25, 2018, for heart, weights, friends, hair growth, armour, and sword.
- Jay Is Games review of GROW Comeback by SuzukaK, July 18, 2018, for the six traits, the crowdfunding line after GROW Nano 4, and the Grow figure line.
- SuperSoda's comment on that Jay Is Games page, July 18, 2018, for dumbbell, heart, people, the HAIR flask, armour, and sword.
- Zelda.zone, Grow Comeback Guide and Walkthrough, July 23, 2018, for the same six clicks as the normal ending, and for the note that the build was HTML5.
- A comment on the Mahee.com Grow Comeback page, for heart, dumbbell, people, hair water, armor, and sword.
- Wikipedia, GROW (series), for the June 2018 listing, the June 20, 2018 citation, GROW Cinderella in October 2016, GROW Thanks in November 2018, and GROW Cube in September 2005.
- TV Tropes, VideoGame/Grow, for the six items, the retired hero and the child in the intro, and the heart reaching its top during the ending.
- Jay Is Games review of GROW Cube, September 17, 2005, for the ten items. Ten factorial is 3,628,800. Six factorial is 720.
- The GROW Comeback game script, growCameBack.js, on eyezmaze.com, for the heart cap of 6 and the hair-tonic label on the HAIR bottle.
- Our November 10, 2026 pass through the live GROW Comeback build at eyezmaze.com, for the panel slots, the shared readout on the two clears (heart at 5, the other five at MAX), and the hair-first lists that missed the clear.
