Bond Trail

Bond Trail is a free daily Naruto trivia game on narutodle.app: you name one mystery character from six relationship clues (rival, teammate, mentor, family or bond), revealed one at a time, with six tries and a 1–3★ score based on how few clues you needed.

Each clue is a relationship type plus a name, such as Rival: Sasuke Uchiha or Mentor: Jiraiya. There are five types: Rival, Teammate, Mentor, Family and Bond. Bond is the catch-all for every other close tie, from friends and students to a tailed beast and its host.

Only the first clue shows at the start. Each wrong guess, and each skip, opens the next one. You have six tries, and if the sixth one misses, the answer is revealed. Solve it with one or two clues showing for 3★, three or four for 2★, or five or six for 1★.

Bond Trail runs on its own daily sequence, so its answer has nothing to do with Classic, Naruto Riddle or any other mode that day. A fresh round of Naruto trivia opens at 00:00 UTC, which is 21:00 the day before in Brasília. It is free, needs no account, and keeps your progress in your browser.

A round of this Naruto trivia takes a few minutes. The general how to play guide covers the other modes on the site.

1. 1

   Read the first clue

   Open today's trail at narutodle.app/bonds. Clue 1 is showing: a relationship seal, then a portrait and a name. The other five slots stay sealed.

2. 2

   Think about who fits

   Ask who has that relationship with that person; this is where your Naruto trivia pays off. Bond: Naruto Uzumaki fits a big part of the cast. Mentor: Kurenai Yūhi fits only her Team 8 students.

3. 3

   Guess or skip

   Type a name. Autocomplete matches English names, romaji and common aliases. A wrong guess and a skip each use one of your six tries and open the next clue. You cannot enter the same character twice.

4. 4

   Read the new clue

   Each clue is more specific than the one before. Family clues, which often share the answer's surname, always come last.

5. 5

   Finish and share

   Name the character to see your stars, the full trail and a link to their profile; miss six times, or press Reveal answer, and the answer is shown. Copy a spoiler-free result such as Bond Trail #N 3/6 ★★☆, with one square per try: ⬛ wrong guess, ⬜ skip, 🟩 solved.

A worked example. Here is one full trail. The answer is Hinata Hyūga, and her six clues, in order, are:

Clue 1 says little on its own, because Naruto turns up in a lot of dossiers. The player tries Sakura Haruno, which is wrong, and clue 2 opens: Kurenai, Team 8's sensei. The answer is one of her students. The player guesses Shino Aburame, also wrong: he is on the team but is not the answer, and he shows up later as clue 4. Clue 3, Teammate: Kiba Inuzuka, confirms Team 8 and rules out Kiba too, which leaves one name. The player enters Hinata Hyūga with three clues showing and scores 2★. The share line reads Bond Trail #N 3/6 ★★☆ ⬛⬛🟩.

Waiting for clue 5 would have made it easy, since Family: Neji Hyūga all but names the clan. It would also have cut the score to 1★. That is the trade-off in this Naruto trivia game: answer early for more stars, or wait for an easier clue and take fewer.

Every trail runs from generic to specific. To set the order, the game counts how many of the 115 dossiers list each related character. A name that turns up in many dossiers tells you little. A name that turns up in few tells you a lot. Common names go first and rare ones later, so the trail gets sharper with every miss.

Naruto is the clearest case. He is listed in a lot of dossiers, so Bond: Naruto Uzumaki fits a big slice of the cast and often opens a trail. At the other end sits Shukaku. The One-Tail appears in only one dossier, Gaara's, so a Shukaku clue nearly gives the answer away: anyone with basic Naruto trivia knows who his host was. Put it first and the round would be over in one guess, which is why rare names wait.

Family comes last, whatever the count says. Relatives often share a surname, and a surname is close to a direct hint. In the Hinata trail, Neji Hyūga and Hanabi Hyūga are clues 5 and 6. Move either one to the front and anyone who knows their Naruto trivia would solve it in one try. Keeping family at the end means the surname only arrives once a solve is worth 1★.

Each type has its own kanji seal on the scroll: 敵 for Rival, 班 for Teammate, 師 for Mentor, 家 for Family and 絆 for Bond. The seal sits beside the name, so you can read the type at a glance.

The labels also point one way only. Mentor: X always means X taught the answer. When the answer is the teacher, the students appear as Teammate or Bond instead, so no label is ever reversed. Mentor: Jiraiya means the answer trained under Jiraiya, never that the answer trained him. And the answer's own name never appears on its trail, so every name you see is one you can cross off. For Naruto trivia built on people, these two rules keep every clue honest.

These six habits follow from how the trails are built. They all aim at the same target in this Naruto trivia game: naming the answer before the family clues arrive.

• 一

  Guess instead of skipping. A wrong guess and a skip cost the same: one try and one new clue. Only a guess can win, so skip only when no name comes to mind at all.

• 二

  Read the type before the name. Rival: Naruto and Bond: Naruto point at different people. A rival suggests someone who fought him; a bond suggests a friend, a student or an ally. The seal is half the clue.

• 三

  Treat Mentor as a class list. A Mentor clue narrows the answer to that teacher's students. Mentor: Kurenai Yūhi points at Team 8 and Mentor: Kakashi Hatake at Team 7. List the class, then let the next clue pick one name from it.

• 四

  Complete the squad. Teammate clues from one team often leave a single gap. In the Hinata trail, Kurenai plus Kiba left Hinata and Shino, and Shino had already been ruled out by a wrong guess.

• 五

  Think of the war when Kabuto opens. Rival: Kabuto Yakushi opens more trails than you might expect. Kabuto brought many fighters back with Edo Tensei in the Fourth Shinobi World War, so the answer is often one of them: a former Kage, a Mist swordsman or a jinchūriki.

• 六

  Cross off every name on the trail. The answer is never one of its own clues, so each name you see is ruled out. Pair that with the type and the list shrinks fast. If a name escapes you, the character roster has every profile, a handy place to brush up on Naruto trivia between rounds.

Our Narutodle strategy guide covers the other daily modes. For this kind of Naruto trivia, the short version is to guess early and finish before the family clues show up.

Search results for Naruto trivia are full of static quizzes on sites such as FunTrivia and Sporcle: a set of questions written once and left as it is. They work well as a one-off test. The daily modes on narutodle.app change every day and score how you reached the answer, which is where Bond Trail fits in.

The modes mix well. Warm up on attributes in Classic, test your range in the Naruto Grid, hear the cast speak in Quote, and keep Bond Trail for the Naruto trivia that is about people and the ties between them.