A Pokémon image is shown and you must say whether it has its usual colouring or the Shiny one. Difficulty changes the image (official artwork, HOME render or sprite) and the timer. In ranked play the server prepares the image so that neither its address nor the file gives the answer away.

How to play

1. 1Ten rounds with one image each: answer “Normal” or “Shiny”. The species is only named in the explanation.
2. 2Image by difficulty: official artwork on easy, Pokémon HOME render on medium and 96 px sprite on hard.
3. 3Time per round: 15 s on easy, 12 s on medium and 8 s on hard.
4. 4Only species with both a normal and a Shiny image recorded in the PokeAPI snapshot take part. Whether the two are visibly different is not checked automatically: for some species the difference is subtle.
5. 5In ranked play the server downloads the image and re-encodes it with a random scale and position: neither the address nor the file reveals the variant.