Twelve universes are planned. None of them opens until its questions are verified one by one: fact, image, episode number. Shipping a wrong answer costs more than shipping late, so the arc list grows slowly and publicly. What you are playing is the engine, running on the arc we know best.
Every answer is checked against the source before it goes live. Not remembered, not assumed. Checked. A wrong question published is worse than a question that never shipped.
The image comes from the exact episode the question is about. Not a wallpaper, not fan art, not a vaguely related still. The episode number is printed next to it so you can check us.
You answer first. Then the scene appears. It rewards you and it teaches you, it never helps you guess. This rule has no exceptions and no setting to turn it off.
The arcs are listed in story order. In the beta only one is unlocked, Search for Tsunade, and the rest are drawn dashed, because they exist as drafts and not as verified questions.
Per question. It is enough time to know and not enough time to look it up. Answering fast is worth points, but a slow correct answer always beats a fast wrong one.
One is canon. Two are plausible enough that a single rewatch would not separate them. The fourth is there to catch a guess. Wrong options are never absurd, that would make the question free.
The card turns over: verdict, the scene it comes from, the exact episode, and the thread of everyone arguing underneath. You can rate the difficulty, and you can flag the question if you think we got it wrong.
Score, speed, longest streak, rank reached, arc played. It leaves as an image built for a story, so the people who beat you can send theirs back.
Each universe also carries its own ladder. In Naruto it runs from Genin to Kage, earned once and defended every week.
Every question carries a flag. Tap it, say what is wrong, name your source. It lands in a queue we read every day. If you are right the question is corrected or pulled the same week, and your handle goes on the arc. Being corrected in public is the price of claiming to be canon.
Verifying an arc is slow, unglamorous work: every question needs its fact confirmed, its screenshot matched to the right scene, and its episode number checked. One person cannot do that for twelve universes, and one person should not.
So there is a reviewer platform behind an access code. You get a queue of draft questions and you rule on three things. Nothing reaches players until a reviewer has signed it off, and every arc credits the people who read it.
ASK FOR A CODEIs the answer canon, and is it the only defensible answer?
Is it the scene the question is about, and does it give the answer away?
Right episode, right season, manga chapter where it differs.
Corrections shipped weekly, each one named in public.
The form asks which arc goes next. Highest count wins, and reviewers start on it.
Fifteen questions a day, the same for everyone, once there are enough arcs to feed it.
A second franchise opens only when its first arc is verified end to end.