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Pokémon Items: how to recognize and remember them

The Item quiz shows you the sprite of a mystery item and gives you six tries to name it. Potions, Poké Balls, berries, evolution stones, held items: nine generations of games have filled the bag with hundreds of items, and many of them look remarkably alike. Recognizing a sprite at first glance is a genuine trainer skill, and it is exactly what this quiz trains.

This guide walks through the main item families and their visual logic (ball color codes, berry shapes, series repeated across types), then breaks down the quiz mechanics: the five clue columns, the description hint and a first-guess strategy. Once the method is clear, head to the Item quiz to put it into practice.

The principle: one sprite, six tries

Every day, a mystery item is drawn from a pool of 479 items. Its sprite is displayed in full color from the start of the round: that is your main clue. You then type a name into the search field, which covers more than 500 items and works in French and English at the same time, and submit your guess.

Each guess fills a row of the comparison board and you get six tries in total. Unlike the Silhouette quiz, nothing is hidden or blurred: the whole difficulty comes from how many items have near-identical sprites. A reddish gem could be a Fire Gem, a Mega Stone or a Tera Shard, and the clues board is what will settle it.

The main item families

The quiz sorts items into the bag's five pockets: Poké Balls, Medicine, Berries, Battle and Misc. Under each pocket, the Category column narrows things down to the exact sub-family. Here are the families to know:

  • Healing items: the Potion and its upgrades, status cures, the Revive, plus Vitamins like HP Up that boost training.
  • Balls: standard balls (Poké Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, Master Ball) and special balls with targeted uses.
  • Berries: from the healing Oran Berry to cooking berries, about sixty small fruits in the pool.
  • Held items: Leftovers, Bright Powder and the whole strategic kit entrusted to Pokémon in battle.
  • Evolution stones: Sun Stone, Thunder Stone and their cousins, which trigger evolutions.
  • Type series: Plates (Flame Plate), Gems (Fire Gem), Memories (Fighting Memory), Tera Shards and Mega Stones, one item repeated for every type.

One notable absence: TMs, iconic as they are in the games, are not part of the quiz pool. No point guessing them.

Recognizing an item sprite

Each family has its visual template, and each variant its color code. Balls are the best example: the top half announces the model. Red for the Poké Ball, blue for the Great Ball, black with yellow bands for the Ultra Ball, purple with an M for the Master Ball, pure white for the Premier Ball.

Berries borrow fruit shapes: the Oran Berry is a small blue ball, the Pecha Berry looks like a pink peach. Potions are flasks whose look scales up with their power. As for the type series, they repeat one template (a tablet for Plates, a round gem for Gems) in one color per type: learn the family template first, then the color will give you the variant.

The five clue columns

On every try, your item is compared to the mystery on five columns: Pocket (the bag compartment), Category (the exact sub-family), Hold (can a Pokémon hold it), Battle (usable in battle or not) and Price (the shop purchase price). A green cell means the value matches the mystery item, a gray cell means it does not.

The Price column has two subtleties: a yellow cell means a price in the same bracket as the mystery, and an arrow tells you whether to aim higher or lower. Items that cannot be bought in shops show Free.

If you are stuck, a button reveals the mystery item's description, with its name masked by asterisks (type names stay visible, which helps a lot for Plates or Gems). This hint has a cost: it cancels the round's try and speed bonuses.

Strategy: open well, then eliminate

Open with an iconic item whose profile you know by heart, like Master Ball, Potion or Leftovers: from the very first try, you pin down the pocket, the category, the Hold and Battle columns and a price bracket. Then cross-check with the sprite: if the Berries pocket lights up green, the field shrinks to about sixty candidates and the fruit's shape does the rest.

Watch out for trap names. Tiered families like Potion, Super Potion, Hyper Potion and Max Potion share the same template, and the Price column is what separates the tiers; Revive and Max Revive play the same trick. In the type series, Flame Plate, Fire Gem and Fire Memory look alike on paper: the Pocket and Category columns tell them apart instantly on the board.

Game modes and scoring

The Item quiz is played in Common mode (one item a day, the same for everyone, renewed at midnight Paris time) and Replay mode (a personal daily round, for signed-in players). The score rewards using few tries, with a speed bonus on top, and winning day after day builds your streak.

The mystery item also appears in the three-minute Sprint, in the Daily Challenge and in PVP multiplayer. Reaching a streak of seven on the Item quiz unlocks the Flareon avatar.

Frequently asked questions

How many tries do I get to find the item?
Six tries per round. Each guess fills a row of the five-column board (Pocket, Category, Hold, Battle, Price) that compares it to the mystery item.
How many items can come up?
The mystery item is drawn from 479 items, and the search covers more than 500 names. It works in French and English at the same time.
What does the description hint do?
It reveals the mystery item's description, with its name masked by asterisks (type names stay visible). In exchange, the round's try and speed bonuses are cancelled.
What does a yellow Price cell mean?
Your item is in the same price bracket as the mystery without matching the exact price. The arrow tells you whether to aim higher or lower, and Free marks an item that cannot be bought in shops.
Are TMs part of the quiz?
No. The pool covers balls, healing items, berries, held items, evolution stones and the type series, but not TMs.
How do I unlock the Flareon avatar?
By reaching a streak of seven correct answers on the Item quiz.
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