The umbrella allows you to float through the air and reach areas inaccessible to platform or ladder.

Items scattered about the board give Granny special powers for thirty seconds at a time. Other plant life in the game includes special man-eating flowers and ladder-vines, which you can grow by picking up a watering can. They’re very difficult to spot until you pass them, and make for another scoring opportunity for those who wish to see their names at the top of the daily or all-time Internet scoreboards. As you step through a level, hidden flowers sometimes sprout in your path, scoring you bonus points. Once all the cats are saved, a gate to the next level appears in the form of a flower with a swirling colored wormhole at its middle. But if you fall into the clutches of an enemy or off the screen, all undelivered cats will reset to their earlier locations, so there is some risk in going for the big points. The more cats in your herd, the more points you’ll score when you safely bring them off the stage. Cat owners will recognize herding cats as an impossible situation, but the game is much more fun to play if you suspend your disbelief for a minute. When crossed, the cats follow you as you navigate the level and lead them to the goal.

Granny in paradise