Name cards

Every daily puzzle you win pays trainer XP, and the server works it out from your saved result, so these are exactly the numbers you get. A Classic win is worth 80 XP with no mistakes and 5 less for each mistake. No-overlap, the daily board without red herrings, pays 64 XP and 4 less per mistake. Pokédle pays 80 XP when your first guess is right, Silhouette 60 and Riddle 55; each extra guess costs 5 XP, and a win never pays less than 10. Win both Classic and No-overlap on the same day for a 30 XP sweep bonus.

Your best Classic streak pays one-time bonuses when it reaches 7 days (+100 XP), 30 days (+500) and 100 days (+2,000). A win that adds at least one new Pokémon to your Pokédex pays +10 XP, once per game, whether it added one Pokémon or sixteen. Unlocking a name card pays as well. Apart from Home Route, which every trainer starts with, the cards come in sets of three that share one goal at rising numbers: the first card of a set pays +25 XP, the second +50 and the third +100. A perfect day across all five dailies comes to 369 XP before Pokédex and name card bonuses.

Unlimited practice puzzles and community puzzles never pay XP.

Name cards are earned by playing. Each card has a quality from Common to Mythic and its own unlock goal. Wear one and it becomes the background of your leaderboard row and the banner on your profile. You can switch cards any time from your profile.

Your Pokédex fills itself as you play. Win the Classic or No-overlap daily and all 16 Pokémon on that board are added; win Pokédle, Silhouette or Riddle and that day's answer is added. Each Pokémon is counted once, on the day you first collect it, so meeting Pikachu again adds nothing new. A game that adds at least one new Pokémon pays +10 XP once, whether it added one or sixteen.

Only daily puzzles you win count: losses, Unlimited practice and community puzzles leave your Pokédex as it is. The wall on your profile is split into the nine generations, from the 151 Pokémon of Generation 1 to the 120 of Generation 9, and anything you have not collected yet shows as a question mark. Three name cards mark the milestones: Sketchbook Trail at 151 different Pokémon, the size of the original Kanto Pokédex; Museum Wing at 500, roughly half of the National Pokédex; and Endless Archive at 1,025, every species in it. Any Pokémon counts toward these numbers, not only those from one region.

Pokédle and Silhouette can pick their answer from all 1,025 species, so those two modes are where most of the rarer entries come from.

Medals and crowns come from the three leaderboards and are settled shortly after midnight UTC. The Weekly board runs from Monday to Sunday and ranks trainers by how many daily wins they collect in Classic, Pokédle, Silhouette and Riddle, up to 28 in a week, with points for fewer mistakes breaking ties. When the week closes, the top three receive a gold, silver or bronze medal, and your profile keeps a count of each. The Streak board ranks current Classic win streaks and the Level board ranks total XP. At the end of every day, the top three trainers on each of those boards earn a crown day, so a crown shows how many days you have held a top-three place and the best position you reached.

Medals and crowns are honors only and pay no XP, but every week you finish in the top three counts toward the Victory Lane, Golden Stand and Hall of Legends name cards, and those do pay XP. Only signed-in trainers appear on the boards.