ONE LAST THING · A HUNT
There is a hidden world
all around you.
Even under your feet.
Hidden across six BioKEA games are six golden samples. One in each game. Reach a milestone in each, and the games reveal a word — six words that spell out a single sentence about what biology is becoming.
Best on desktop · keyboard + mouse for now
HOW IT WORKS
- 01
Pick a handle
Use the same handle in every BioKEA game — that's how your collection follows you across games and devices. (Play on a desktop browser; mobile support is coming.)
- 02
Earn a sample
Each game has a hidden milestone. Reach it and a golden sample appears with one word from the answer. Six games. Six words.
- 03
Watch your collection fill
Come back here. Your slots light up automatically once you've played any of the games.
- 04
Claim your prize
All six? The full sentence reveals — and the form below opens. Submit your address. The first 10 handles to complete the hunt receive real sequencing of their own backyard soil.
YOUR COLLECTION
Six slots. One sentence.
Your slots fill in automatically based on what you've earned. The handle is whatever you chose the first time a game prompted you.
- Slot 1 sealed
- Slot 2 sealed
- Slot 3 sealed
- Slot 4 sealed
- Slot 5 sealed
- Slot 6 sealed
THE GAMES
Six playable games. One golden sample hidden inside each. Click in, play, and reach the milestone — the reveal will find you.
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Codon Collider
A daily DNA-merge puzzle. Build life from a single base to a complete ecosystem.
🔒 Golden sample hidden inside
Play → -
Pipette Rush
Run the eDNA pipeline as fast as the lab can throw it at you.
🔒 Golden sample hidden inside
Play → -
Plasmid Plinko
Drop a primer. Clear every gene-peg on the board. Stack lab upgrades between rounds.
🔒 Golden sample hidden inside
Play → -
Particle Accelerator
You are the sample. Survive eight minutes through the contaminant field.
🔒 Golden sample hidden inside
Play → -
Biodiversity Discovery Lab
California's biodiversity survey, rendered as a collectible card-album challenge.
🔒 Golden sample hidden inside
Play → -
THE PRIZE
The first 10 handles to collect all six golden samples receive:
- · Real molecular sequencing of soil sampled from your own backyard.
- · A full report (PDF) of what was found.
- · The raw sequencing data (FASTQ).
- · A Claude-powered explorer for asking your data questions in plain English.
RULES
- · Hunt window: 2026-05-07 through 2026-07-07 (~60 days). Tickets earned outside this window won't count toward the prize.
- · US residents only.
- · Must be 18+ at the time of redemption.
- · One redemption per handle.
- · Best played on a desktop browser. Mobile support is coming.
- · Automated submissions, source-scraping, or LLM-assisted spoiler retrieval will be disqualified — that's not the spirit of this. Earn it.
- · Winners are notified by email; allow 4–6 weeks for kit delivery, sample return, sequencing, and report.
- · Email and address are used only for prize fulfillment.
CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
Available once your collection is complete (six of six). Submit the handle you played under and the address where the kit should ship.
Load your collection above. The form unlocks when you've earned all six.
LAB UPDATES
Not in the US? Hunt over? Stay in the loop.
The hunt is US-only this round, but lab updates from BioKEA are open to anyone — new games, papers, the next challenge.
Biodiversity can be discovered anywhere.