Naruto 20 Questions

Naruto 20 Questions is a free daily deduction game on narutodle.app: a board of 24 Naruto characters hides one answer, and you ask up to 20 yes/no questions about village, clan, rank, traits and jutsu to rule characters out and name the hidden shinobi.

There is one Naruto 20 Questions board a day, the same for every player. It goes live at 00:00 UTC (21:00 the day before in Brasília) and is independent of Classic, Silhouette, Riddle and every other mode, so solving one never spoils another.

The questions come from a fixed menu of 52. Forty-nine are built from the site's character data: village, clan, ninja rank, traits such as Akatsuki or jinchūriki, kekkei genkai, chakra nature, jutsu type, gender, and whether a character has any kekkei genkai at all. The other three are story questions: debuted in Part I, dead by the end of Shippūden, and has a known clan name.

Everyone on a Naruto 20 Questions board is a well-known character with a full dossier on the site, such as Gaara; tailed beasts and summons are left out, because most questions do not apply to them. The other 23 are picked by how similar they are to the answer, so every board has a theme, and lazy opening questions cut less than you would hope.

The rules of Naruto 20 Questions fit on a single scroll, and the general how to play guide covers the other modes on the site.

1. 1

   Study the board

   Open today's Naruto 20 Questions at narutodle.app/20-questions. Twenty-four portraits fill the board, one of them is the answer, and the counter reads 0 / 20 questions.

2. 2

   Ask a yes/no question

   Pick a question from the tray under the board. Questions are grouped as Village, Clan, Rank, Traits, Kekkei genkai, Chakra, Jutsu and Story. The answer, Yes or No, appears at once and goes into the interrogation log.

3. 3

   Watch the board shrink

   Every character the answer rules out is greyed out and stamped ✗ for you, so there is nothing to cross off by hand. Questions that no longer split the characters still standing leave the tray.

4. 4

   Accuse a suspect

   Tap a portrait and confirm to accuse that character. You can accuse at any time. A wrong accusation greys the character out and counts as one question; a right one ends the game at no cost.

5. 5

   Collect your stars

   Find the answer within 20 questions to win. Five questions or fewer earns 3★, six to eight earns 2★ and nine or more earns 1★. Share a spoiler-free result, then check the countdown to the next board.

Each answer differs from every other character on its board in at least one yes/no fact, so careful play in Naruto 20 Questions always reaches it. What varies is how many questions it takes, and that is what the strategy section below is about.

The Naruto 20 Questions menu has eight groups. Forty-nine questions come from the same condition library as the Naruto Grid; the three story questions were written for this game.

Village and rank questions follow the site's snapshot at the end of Naruto: Shippūden. Kakashi counts as a Kage and Sasuke as a Rogue Ninja, and a rogue ninja such as Kisame still counts for the village he left.

Traits carry the most story. Edo Tensei marks anyone brought back by the Impure World Reincarnation, and Jinchūriki anyone who ever hosted a tailed beast. Late in a round of Naruto 20 Questions, one trait question can split two characters who look alike on paper, as “Jinchūriki?” does for Gaara and the Third Kazekage in the example below.

For kekkei genkai questions, our kekkei genkai list names the holders of every bloodline ability in the dataset. Chakra natures are the broadest group, and one character can answer Yes to several; in the example, two chakra questions make the first cuts.

The three story questions cut across villages and clans. “Debuted in Part I?” splits by era (our guide to Naruto arcs in order shows who appeared where), “Dead by the end of Shippūden?” splits by fate, and “Has a known clan name?” separates clan members from shinobi known by a single name.

The best question in Naruto 20 Questions comes closest to splitting the characters still standing in half; on 24 characters, 12–12 is ideal. Here is a real game on Gaara's board, played that way.

Each question roughly halves the board: 24 to 13, then 7, 3, 2 and finally 1. Five questions earns 3★. The order matters too. The broad chakra questions came first, the village question cut the field to three Sand shinobi, and the narrow trait questions came last, when only a few names remained.

• 一

  Aim for a 50/50 split. Before you tap, estimate how many characters would answer Yes. The closer to half of those standing, the better: on a fresh board of 24, a question that leaves 12 or 13 on each side is about as good as it gets.

• 二

  Skip questions that single out one face. No single question isolates the answer, so on a full board a question that fits only one character always leaves you with the other 23. Keep it for the endgame, when it might split the last two or three.

• 三

  Open broad, finish narrow. Chakra natures and villages cover many characters and tend to split a fresh board well. Clans, kekkei genkai and titles such as Hokage cover few: weak openers, strong finishers.

• 四

  Use story questions on themed boards. Because the other 23 are chosen for their similarity to the answer, a board can lean on one village or clan. When the obvious groups stop splitting it, the story questions cut across them by era, fate and clan name.

• 五

  Trust the snapshot, not the sequel. Ranks and fates in Naruto 20 Questions are frozen at the end of Shippūden: Kakashi is a Kage, Sasuke a Rogue Ninja, and nothing from Boruto applies. Unsure about someone? The character roster has every profile.

• 六

  Accuse at two or three. A wrong accusation costs one question; a right one costs nothing. With two names left, accusing costs at most one question, the same as asking. With three, it costs at most two, which is also the worst case for asking. Accusing at three names in the Gaara game would still have finished on 3★.

That is the whole Naruto 20 Questions method: halve while the board is big, go narrow when it is small, and accuse when it costs no more than asking.

Classic Narutodle and Naruto 20 Questions both hide one character, but the information flows the other way. In Classic you name a suspect and the game grades nine of its attributes. In Naruto 20 Questions you pick the attribute and the game answers for the whole board, so you name nobody until you are ready. The Naruto Grid has no hidden answer at all: you supply nine characters yourself.

If Classic is your daily habit, Naruto 20 Questions works the same attribute knowledge from the other side. You decide which fact is worth asking about instead of reading feedback on a guess. Players who prefer sorting to deducing can try Shinobi Squads.