Fruit Arena

About Fruit Arena

Eight competitions on reviewed photographs of 539 fruits. Name a fruit from its photograph; choose its Latin name; search for it by name; pick its native continent, its plant family or its botanical fruit type; estimate how big it grows; or match ten photographs to their names.

Six collections run from citrus, berries and orchard fruits to tropical fruits, melons and vines, and wild and rare fruits. Play familiar fruits, one collection or a balanced mix. Native ranges and families come from Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants; fruit types and sizes from named botanical references.

How to play

Goal

Recognize the world’s fruits from their photographs and learn their names, Latin names, native continents, plant families, botanical fruit types and sizes.

How it ends

Finish ten questions or ten pairs, exhaust the sprint clock, or make one sprint mistake.

Record

Best score, highest Size Reserve or fastest Matching finish, with time and the player’s name.

1. Recognition Sprint: choose the pictured fruit from eight names. You have 90 seconds and one wrong answer ends the run. Most correct answers wins; the time of the last one breaks ties.
2. Latin Names: choose the scientific (Latin) name of the pictured fruit from eight, mostly of related fruits. Ten photographs; a wrong answer scores nothing. Most correct answers wins, then the faster total time.
3. Name Search: identify ten photographs. Type part of a common or scientific name or an alias and choose the fruit from the list. A fruit sharing its name, or a close relative a photograph cannot tell apart, also counts. Correct answers rank first, then faster time.
4. Native Regions: choose one continent where the named fruit’s plant grows natively in the wild. Any correct native continent earns a point; introduced, naturalised and cultivated plants do not count, and garden hybrids are left out. Complete ten questions.
5. Plant Family: choose the botanical family of the named fruit from eight, each shown with two of its best-known fruits. Ten questions; most correct answers wins, then time.
6. Fruit Type: choose the botanical kind of fruit: berry (citrus and melons count as berries), drupe, pome, aggregate, multiple, capsule or pod, accessory, or other dry fruit. Where sources give two types, either counts. Ten questions.
7. Size Reserve: estimate the fruit’s length or diameter in centimetres or millimetres. You start with 1,000. A guess inside the reviewed range costs nothing; outside it you lose how many times too big or small it was, on a logarithmic share of the 0.3–100 cm range, at most 100 per guess. Ten estimates; highest reserve wins, then time.
8. Matching: select a photograph, then its fruit name, or drag one onto its partner. Match all ten pairs. Each wrong pair adds three seconds; fastest adjusted finish wins.

Controls

Tips

• Look at the cut face Seeds scattered through the flesh, one hard stone or a papery core tell a berry, a drupe and a pome apart.
• Read the genus Latin Names offers relatives, so the first word is often shared; the second word decides.
• Think about where the wild plant grew Many fruits are grown worldwide today. Native Regions asks where the wild plant came from, not where the fruit is farmed.

Good to know

A quiz, not a foraging guide: nothing here says whether a fruit is safe to eat. Every photograph retains its creator, chosen licence, original title and source links. Creator credits appear beside the photograph; Full photo credit opens the complete attribution and sources. Opening full credits during a question, leaving the tab, restoring an unfinished run or a mid-run photo-loading interruption makes that attempt practice.

Watch how to play

Watch the tutorial 4:56

Questions