Naruto Emoji Riddle turns a shinobi into a row of emojis and asks you to decode it. A fox, a swirl and a bowl of ramen. A toad, a pen and a flask of sake. A snake, a test tube and a microscope. Each emoji points at something fans know by heart, whether it is a signature jutsu, a summon, a nickname or a running joke, and your job is to work out which Naruto character the set describes.

There is one riddle a day for each era, and everyone gets the same one. The pool sticks to the recognisable characters of the era you pick, and many characters have several different emoji sets, so meeting the same character twice does not mean seeing the same clues. It is the most light-hearted of the daily games, and one of the quickest to play on a phone.

Each riddle has five emojis, and the first two are visible when you start. Type at least two letters of a character's name, choose from the suggestions and submit.

You have six attempts. Every wrong guess reveals one more emoji, so after three misses the full set of five is on screen and you still have three attempts left to use it. Wrong names stay listed below so you never guess the same character twice.

Solving the riddle reveals the character and records your streak. If you give up or use all six attempts, the answer is shown. Signed-in players who solve it are ranked on the daily leaderboard by attempts and time, and a new riddle appears at midnight UTC.

Read every emoji twice: once as a literal object and once as a pun. A cherry blossom is Sakura's name, a deer is the Nara clan's herd, a toad points to Jiraiya or the Toad Sages, and a desert landscape means the Hidden Sand. Sets often mix a name pun with a technique or a trait, so look for the one emoji that could only mean a single person.

Colours and numbers carry more meaning than they seem. A green heart or square usually points at Might Guy or Rock Lee, yellow at Minato, the Yellow Flash, and lavender at Hinata. A number like 8 is a strong nudge toward the Eight Gates. An eye emoji, on the other hand, can stand for the Sharingan, the Byakugan or the Rinnegan, so it needs a second clue before it settles anything.

With six attempts and only five emojis, an informed wrong guess is not a disaster: it costs one attempt but buys a new clue. If the first two emojis leave you split between two characters, guess the likelier one rather than waiting, and keep your last attempts for when all five clues are visible.