How to Play

Everything the daily feedback grid means, worked through with a real example — not a general Pokédex tutorial, but specifically how PokéGuess evaluates your guesses.

The Basics

Every day, PokéGuess selects one Pokémon from a curated pool — the same one for everyone playing that day. You have six tries to name it. Type a Pokémon's name into the guess box (autocomplete will help with spelling) and submit it to see how it compares to the answer.

Reading the Feedback Grid

Each guess produces a row of seven results, one per attribute: Type 1, Type 2, Generation, Evolution Stage, Height, Weight, and Color. Every cell is colored:

Green — an exact match.
Yellow — close, by a rule specific to that attribute (see below).
Gray — no meaningful connection.

The exact "close" rule differs by attribute:

Type 1 / Type 2 — yellow if your guessed type matches the answer's other type slot (right type, wrong slot).
Generation — yellow if the answer's generation is exactly one away from your guess.
Evolution Stage — yellow if the answer is one evolution step away from your guess.
Height / Weight — yellow if the answer is within 20% of your guess.
Color — yellow if the answer's color is in the same family as your guess (warm, cool, or neutral — see the Attributes reference).

Worked example

Guessing Bulbasaur when the answer is Charizard produces:

Type 1: gray (Bulbasaur is Grass, Charizard is Fire/Flying — no overlap)
Type 2: gray (Poison vs. Flying — no overlap)
Generation: green (both are Generation 1)
Evolution Stage: gray (Bulbasaur is stage 1, Charizard is stage 3 — two steps apart)
Height: gray, with ▲ (0.7m vs. 1.7m — more than 20% off, and the answer is taller)
Weight: gray, with ▲ (6.9kg vs. 90.5kg — the answer is much heavier)
Color: gray (Green vs. Red — different families)

Even an almost-entirely-gray row like that one is informative: it tells you the answer probably isn't grass/poison, is a similar era, but is a notably larger, later-stage, differently colored Pokémon.

The Arrows

On the Height and Weight cells specifically, an arrow appears whenever the cell isn't an exact match: ▲ means the real answer is taller or heavier than your guess, and ▼ means it's shorter or lighter. The arrow shows up on both yellow and gray cells, so even a "no match" height or weight still tells you which direction to move your next guess.

Optional Clues

If you're stuck, tap "Reveal a clue" beneath the mystery silhouette. Up to three clues are available, each more specific than the last: a broad generation range, then a physical trait, then the answer's exact primary type. Clues never use up one of your six guesses — but if you use any, your shared result notes how many, so the difference between an unaided solve and an assisted one stays visible. Full details are on the Strategy page.

Streaks

Solving consecutive days' puzzles builds a streak, shown with a small flame counter. Missing a day or losing a puzzle resets it. Your streak, best streak, and total games played are all stored locally in your browser — see the Privacy page for exactly what's saved and where.