Games & Interactive
Everything here started as a way to teach something that does not teach well on the page. Diagnosis you have to practice, selection you have to feel the cost of, and a history that lands harder when the helicopters are coming for your plants and not somebody else's.
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Four games
Daily
Daily Pakalolo
One five letter word a day, drawn from Hawaiian language, island history, and the growing craft. Six guesses, a streak to keep, and the meaning revealed when you finish. A new word every morning.
Play today's word →
New
Pheno Hunt: Find the Warrior
Eight regular seeds, and only enough trials to test some of them. Stem rub for aroma, watch three through veg for structure, flower two, keep one. Then find out what you threw away in week two.
Pop the seeds →
Photos
Read the Mana: Diagnose the Grow
Ten field cases, mostly real photographs. Name the cause before you reach for a bottle: deficiency, pH lockout, pest, or nothing wrong at all. Two of them are traps.
Open the first case →
History
Green Harvest: Seed Saver
Six Hawaiian landrace lines are in your keeping and the helicopters come every season. Hide them and they survive, but hiding narrows the gene pool. Fourteen years of the eradication era, played out.
Start in 1977 →Find Your Fit
Two paths
Strain Match
Six questions about how you actually grow and what you want at the end of it. Kānehiwa reads your answers and names the heritage strain that fits, with the reasoning laid out.
Answer the six →
The Sacred Grove Walk
Not a quiz so much as a walk. Five scenes, your choices, and a guide who reads what they say about the way you tend things. Slower and stranger than the rest of this page.
Step through the threshold →None of these need an account and none of them phone anything home. Scores and streaks live in your own browser, which also means clearing your history clears them. If you want the reading that sits behind the games, start with the history of pakalolo in Hawaiʻi, the heritage strains, or the grow guides.