How to play
Six questions a day. Get as close as you can to each target, and your answers grow a bonsai.
1. A new tree every day
Everyone gets the same six questions each day, and a new day starts at midnight in your own time zone. The tree follows the season, from plum in late winter to maple in November, and its shape is different every day.
2. Answer close to the target
Each question names a category and a target. For example: Name a country. Target: population closest to 50 million. You have twenty-five seconds for each question. Suggestions appear after three letters, and if you misspell a name the game offers what you might have meant.
| Symbol | Tier | Points | What grows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌸 | Bullseye | 95–100 | The branch opens a blossom |
| 🌳 | Close | 70–94 | Strong new branches |
| 🌿 | Warm | 40–69 | Some new growth |
| 🌱 | Cold | 5–39 | A little growth |
| 🍂 | Miss | 0 | Nothing grows, a leaf falls |
The symbols are the ones in your shared result, one per question, in order.
3. Grow your garden
After six answers your tree reaches one of six stages, from Mebae (sprout) to Kin no ki, the rare golden tree for 570 points or more. It joins this month’s garden, a calendar page with one tree for every day you played.
Your streak counts the days in a row you’ve played. Miss one day and a free sun shower (one a week) keeps it going. Break a long streak and your streak bowl is mended with gold when you come back.