TaskPot

Life bingo with your crew

How TaskPot works

You fill a card with things you want to do this season. Your friends drop a few squares of their own, and some of them promise you something if you finish a line. On reveal day, it all comes out.

  1. Fill a card

    Things you want to do this season, big or small: a chore, a side quest, a habit. Each one is a square.

  2. Bring your crew

    Friends pick a square they're rooting for, drop one of their own on it, and put a reward on a line: a favor they'll do if you hit it.

  3. Reveal day

    The season ends. Every reward comes out, and you see which lines you hit.

Reading this page

Every part starts with the short version.

Switch to Full details at the top for every rule. Switch back any time.

Tap anything. Nothing here changes a real card.

Try a card

Daub squares, hit bingos

In shortDaub means done. A bingo is a line with every square daubed (a row, a column or a diagonal) or a full group. Both count the same.

0/5
Mara
Lines hit
0 of 8
Bingos
0
What just happened

Tap a square to daub it

Try to finish a row, a column or a diagonal. The middle is the free space, and it's already daubed.

  • Just for fun
  • Self-care
  • Money
  • Relationships
  • Life stuff
  • A friend's square
  • Daubed
  • A 3×3 has 8 lines: three rows, three columns, two diagonals. A 5×5 has 12.
  • A full group is a group at its maximum (3 squares on a 3×3, 5 on a 5×5) with every one daubed, wherever they sit.
  • A stacked square counts toward a line when either of its squares is daubed. A square you decline doesn't count.
  • The card cheers each bingo the moment you hit it, and reveal day counts them all.
  • Want a square all to yourself? Protect it from its dialog and nobody can stack on it. Up to 3 on a 3×3, 5 on a 5×5.
The season

Everyone plays the same seasons

In shortSeasons start on an equinox or a solstice and run to the next one. Each one ends on reveal day, then there's a week of sharing before the next one starts.

Fall 2026, for a card started today (Oct 16).

  • Sep 22Season starts
  • Oct 16A card started today
  • Nov 6Last call, the Drafts Era's final day
  • Nov 7Daubing Season starts
  • Dec 14Reveal day
  • Dec 20Sharing week ends
  • A card reveals at midnight in its owner's time zone, taken from their browser.
  • A Season Play Card reveals on the season's reveal day. A side card reveals on its own end date.
  • You can start a card at any point in a season. Its Drafts Era is the 21 days from when you make it, or from the season's start if that's later.
  • Lock early and the Drafts Era ends early: Locked in and Daubing Season start the moment you lock.
A card's life

Four stages, then reveal day

In shortYou fill the card in the lobby, then Lock it in. After that your squares stay put and you just daub. Tap a stage to see what you and your crew can do in it.

Drafts Era · up to the first 21 days
From the lock until reveal day, both at once
Stage 1 of 5

In the lobby

From the moment you start the card until it locks: when you press Lock it in, or at the end of its Drafts Era.

You can

  • Drop, edit, move and remove your squares.
  • Spin for ideas when you're stuck.
  • Set a square's type and group.
  • Stack your own square on a friend's.
  • Grow the card to 5×5, once.
  • Invite friends.
  • Lock it in once every spot has a square.

Your crew can

  • Join.
  • Pick a square, drop one of their own on it, and put something on the line.
  • Edit or move their square, until you daub it.
  • Put a reward on a line from the start.

Locking is optional

Lock it in shows up once every spot has a square. It asks you to confirm, because it can't be undone. If you never lock, the card locks itself at the end of its Drafts Era, full or not.

Locking emails any friend on the card who hasn't put something on the line yet.

Squares and daubing

What goes on a card

In shortYou pick the spot for every square you drop. Only you daub your card, including the squares your friends dropped.

  • Dropping a square

    Tap an empty spot, answer “What's the square?” and press Drop it.

    • Pick a type and, if you like, a group.
    • You can pick one from your backlog instead of typing.

  • Two types

    Yes / no is done in one daub. Count is done after a set number of daubs, and the square fills up as you go.

    • Each daub on a count square counts one, and the last one completes it.
    • To start a count again, open the square and reset it.

  • Daubing

    Only the card's owner daubs, and that includes the squares friends dropped.

    • On a computer, tap a square to daub it and tap again to undaub.
    • On a phone, tap a square to open its controls, then tap the check.
    • Swipe through, on a phone, shows one square per screen with the daub key beside it.
    • On a computer, your pointer turns into a dauber over a square you can daub. Pick another one, or your usual pointer, under Make it yours.

  • The free space

    The centre spot. It's always daubed and counts toward every line through it.

    • You can rename it, clear its words or add a photo behind it.
    • You can't daub, undaub, drop on or stack on it.

  • Spin

    A new card starts empty. Stuck for a square? Spin for one idea, or spin the whole card.

    • When you drop a square, Spin one fills the box with an idea. Tap Spin again for another.
    • Spin the card spins a few ideas into empty spots. Drop the ones you like, spin the rest, then Save. Once more than half the card is filled, the rest is yours.
    • While your card has an empty spot, the free space is the Spin button, unless you've renamed it or given it a photo. Then Spin is under the Groups tab beside the card.
    • Only the words are random. Nothing is placed at random.
    • A square dropped just as it was spun has a dashed outline until you make it yours: edit its words, or open it and press Keep it as is.
    • Until then, Spin again inside the square swaps in a new idea, as long as you haven't daubed it and nobody has stacked on it.

  • Growing

    Every card starts 3×3. You can grow it to 5×5 once, before you lock it.

    • Every square moves one spot in and keeps its neighbours, and 16 empty spots appear around the edge.
    • Lines get five long.
    • A card never shrinks.

  • Groups

    An optional label on one of your squares. There are five.

    • Just for fun
    • Self-care
    • Money
    • Relationships
    • Life stuff
    • A group holds up to 3 squares on a 3×3 and 5 on a 5×5.
    • You can filter the card to one group.
    • Your square stacked on a friend's can have a group too. A friend's square never does.

  • Receipts

    A photo or a link that shows a square happened.

    • Adding a photo daubs the square.
    • You can swap or remove a receipt. A square with a receipt is undaubed from inside the square.
    • A photo on the free space is decoration and proves nothing.

  • Stacking

    A spot can hold two squares. It counts when either one is daubed.

    • Daubing both adds a glow, not extra points.
    • Your crew can stack on any square with room, yours or another friend's.
    • You can stack your own square on a friend's while you're in the lobby, never on your own.
    • Flip a stacked square to see each side. Your card opens on your side of a square you stacked.
    • A friend's square you can still stack on shows a +. If your card is full but some spots hold only a friend's square, the lock notice says so, and Show me where points them out.

  • Editing, moving, removing

    Edit your own words until reveal day. Move squares only while you're in the lobby.

    • A friend's words stay theirs.
    • You can remove your own squares until the card is locked. Removing takes the square's photo with it.
    • A square a friend has stacked on can be edited but not removed.
    • On a phone, press and hold a square to move it.

  • Haiku

    Every square has a haiku that you and your crew write together, one verse at a time: 5 syllables, then 7, then 5, and on it goes.

    • Open a square and its verses are along the bottom. Friends tap the square on your card to open them. Finished haiku, and ones waiting on a verse you can drop, also flow into the river beside your card.
    • A meter says whether your verse fits as you type. The app does the counting, and a verse that doesn't fit says why.
    • Every third verse finishes a haiku, and it gets a seal.
    • Drop the last verse and your crew gets ten minutes before you can drop the next one.
    • Remove your own verse, and on your card remove any verse or clear a square's verses. A removed verse that isn't the newest leaves its place open for anyone to fill.
    • A square's verses close after reveal day and stay as the season's journal. The free space has verses too, and they never close.
    • Only you and your crew can read them, even once the card is public. The one way out is your share video.

  • The backlog

    Jot squares down whenever they come to you, and drop them later.

    • It's one backlog, open from any card. A new idea is tagged to the card you're on, or to all your cards if you pick that. Any idea can still go on any card.
    • A square leaves the backlog when you drop it.
    • Nobody else ever sees your backlog.
Your crew

Friends on your card

In shortFriends join from your invite link and drop one square each. They never install anything. Playing solo is a complete game too.

A friend's visit, step by step

Open the invite link

They see whose card it is, the season, the card so far and what they're being asked to do. Looking needs no account. If they're signed in, it waits for them under Your turn until they join.

  • Inviting

    Every card has one invite link, one tap away on every card screen.

    • It's on the Invite key at the top, the crew tab on the card, the crew page and setup.
    • Copy it or share it. Invites stay open until reveal day unless you close them early.

  • Who sees your card

    You and the friends who took your invite link.

    • Anyone holding the link can look before joining. Nobody can find your card without it.
    • Once a card reveals, it becomes public.

  • Friends' squares

    Each friend drops one square per card, stacked on the square they picked.

    • In the lobby, they can edit its words or move it, until you daub it.
    • After the lock, they can ask you once to edit it, or to move it if it's stacked, until you daub it. You say yes in one tap, or keep it with a reason. They hear back either way.
    • The pencil on a friend's square is where you manage it: decline it, ask them to take another look, rename them, or open their spot on your crew page.

  • Crew's full

    Up to 14 friends on a 3×3, and 24 on a 5×5.

    • Once no square has room for another, a friend can still join and put something on the line.

  • Declining

    You can decline a friend's square. They are never told.

    • It comes off your card and stops counting, but keeps showing for them as if nothing happened.
    • If another square was stacked on it, that one takes over the spot.
    • A friend's square alone in its spot can't be declined after the lock, because friends may have put rewards on lines through it. Removing the friend is different: their square goes, and if that empties a spot on a locked card, your card opens again so you can fill it.

  • Renaming

    You can change the name a friend goes by on your card, any time.

    • Do it from the pencil on their square, or their spot on your crew page.
    • Everyone on the card sees the new name, them included. Nobody is told you changed it.

  • Negotiating

    Instead of declining, ask a friend to take another look at one thing. Once per friend per card.

    • You pick a reason from a list. Nobody types a message.
    • You can ask about their square's words any time before you daub it, its spot while you're in the lobby, and the line their reward is on after the lock. Never the reward.
    • They change it, or keep it and pick a reason. Nothing waits on the answer.

  • Closing invites

    Once the card is locked, you can close invites early. They can't be reopened.

    • After that nobody can join, drop a square, or put on or change a reward.
    • Every reward already offered stands.

  • Leaving and removing

    A friend can leave your card, and you can remove one, at any point. Nobody is told either way.

    • Their square and reward come off the card, and their verses' words go, leaving each place open. If a square was stacked on theirs, it takes the spot.
    • If that empties a spot after the lock, your card opens again so you can fill that spot. A revealed card never opens again.
    • Before reveal day, another friend's reward on a line through a spot that emptied is handed back, so they can put a reward on a line again.
    • Your invite link won't add a friend you removed. Let them back in, on your crew page, undoes that. A friend who left can join again from your link.
Rewards

Something on the line

In shortA reward is what a friend promises to do if you hit the line it's on. Something they'd actually do: dinner, a hike, a playlist. No money.

The good ones tend to need you both there.

Mara put a reward on the middle rowsealed
Sealed until reveal day
From you too.
  • Rewards go on from the start, before the lock and after it.
  • Each friend puts a reward on one line per card: any row, column or diagonal.
  • A reward stays sealed until reveal day, from you too. On reveal day you see the ones you hit. The rest stay sealed unless the friend who offered one chooses to show it.
  • A reward can go on any line, empty spots and all. They fill in as the card does.
  • Putting a reward on a line is part of dropping in. A friend can change their reward or their line until invites close.
  • That a friend put a reward on a line isn't a secret. It shows on the crew page and in updates.
  • A reward is only ever a gift, so nobody loses anything when a line is missed.

Incoming

You hit the line they put a reward on. Time for them to deliver on it.

Absolved

You didn't. There's nothing to deliver on, and putting a reward on it still counted for something.

Staying in the loop

It never nags

In shortThe app tells you when a person does something that involves you. No streaks, no points, no “you haven't opened this in a while.” The card keeps running while you're off doing the things on it.

Boops

Your heads-ups. Almost every one is about a person: a friend joined, dropped a square or a verse, put a reward on a line or cheered you. The crew key shows how many are unread.

Two boops no person causes, and only while a card is in the lobby: three days before its Drafts Era ends, and when it locks itself. Asking a friend to take another look boops them, and their answer boops you. A friend's change request boops you too, and your answer boops them.

Your turn

On a friend's card? The top of your crew page lists what it's waiting on from you: joining, dropping a square, putting a reward on a line, or taking another look when they ask.

Open a friend's invite link while signed in and it stays there until you join, so you never have to dig it out of a text. Hide a step you've decided against. No count, no badge, no email. With no card of your own, it's at the top of your boops.

Cheer

The one reaction, for your friends' updates and their haiku. There are no comments. Press it again to take it back.

Otto daubed “learn one song on guitar”

The river

Beside your card, or along the bottom on a phone: updates from that card and every card you're on, and your crew's haiku, newest first. Squares dropped and daubed, receipts added, friends joined, a reward put on a line, a card locked or revealed. It never shows what a reward is. Whatever needs you on the card, like Lock it in, sits on top, and Show older loads what came before.

Point at an update about your card and its squares are ringed on the card. An update about a friend's card shows that card small; tap it to open the card with the square ringed. This card shows only yours, with the notes you were shown about it. A dot on the river's tab means Lock it in or growing the card is waiting on you. It's never a count.

On your home screen

Add TaskPot to your phone's home screen and it opens straight to your card, full screen. On an iPhone, tap your browser's Share button, scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. Or choose Get the app from your account menu for steps that fit your browser.

While you play in your phone's browser, TaskPot suggests it at most three times, each right after you daub, and never again once you say no or install it.

Emails

“You're in”
A friend
When they join a card. Always sent, because it carries their link.
Card locked
Every friend who joined before the lock
When the card first locks, by you or by itself. It asks a friend with no line yet to put something on the line.
Last call
You
Three days before your Drafts Era ends, if the card is still in the lobby.
Reveal day
You and every friend
On reveal day. A friend whose reward is Incoming gets “Time to deliver on it” instead.
A new verse
You, and anyone who dropped a verse on that square
When someone else drops a new verse on that square, with how many syllables the next one takes. At most one every ten minutes for each square.

Every email except “You're in” can be switched off in email settings.

Sharing

Show it off

In shortShare one square or your whole card as a short video and a link. Your friends' names and their rewards never show.

  • What you share

    A square, from inside it, or your whole card, from the Share key at the top. Only you can share your card.

    • It shares as a short video where your browser can make one, and as a picture where it can't.
    • The Share key wakes up once your card has a square on it.
    • Show daubs, Include photos, Include haiku and Show bingos wait under Options.

  • Featured squares

    Your card's video plays the squares you pick, one to five, in the order you set.

    • A square you haven't daubed yet drops onto the card. A daubed one gets stamped.
    • Up to three are picked to start with. Tap Change under Featured squares to swap them or change the order.
    • Share a single square and the video is all about that square.
    • Include haiku plays a featured square's finished haiku right after it, word by word, with nobody's name on it. Pick which one under Which haiku plays.

  • The link

    Share, Copy link and Text make a link to a page anyone can open, no account needed.

    • Save image and Save video make no link. What you save stays yours.
    • While your card still takes squares, the page offers your invite link too.
    • Every link you've made is under Shared links in the card's setup. Turn one off and it stops opening. Turn it back on any time.
    • Turning a link off can't reach a picture or video already posted somewhere else.

  • What never shows

    Your friends' names, their rewards, and squares you declined.

    • It says how many friends are on your card, never who.
    • Nobody is told you shared, and you never see a count of shares or views.

  • A nudge at the big moments

    Your first bingo on a card, your first photo and locking it in each offer to share, once per card.

    • Each one shows once, whether you share or not.
More than one card

Run a few at once

In shortEach card is its own game, with its own squares, crew, invite link and reveal day.

Fall '26

Season Play Card

Your first card of each season. It runs on the season's shared dates, the same as everyone else's.

Your own dates

side card

Any other card. You pick its start and end dates; left blank, it starts today and ends on the season's reveal day. It reveals on its end date.

  • Make this my Season Play Card, in a side card's setup, moves the season's dates onto that card, and the old Season Play Card becomes a side card. Nothing is retyped and nobody loses their link.
  • It works while both cards are in the same season and the side card is still in the lobby. If nobody's on the old Season Play Card, its Drafts Era starts over from today, and with none of your squares on it, it's deleted.
  • Naming is optional. A Season Play Card with no name uses its season's name. A side card is called Side card until you name it, because it runs on dates of its own. You can rename a card any time.
  • Switch between cards from the card's name at the top. You stay on the page you're on, now for the card you picked. Your cards shows every card you own, newest season first.
  • You can delete a card from its setup, or from its ... on Your cards, at any point, after a confirmation. It takes everything with it, friends' squares and rewards included. They aren't told, and it can't be undone.
  • Anyone opening the home page without an account gets a card to play with, saved in their browser. Making an account keeps it.
The words

One word for each thing

In shortThe app uses the same word for the same thing on every screen. Capitalized ones are always written that way.

card
One bingo game. Yours for a season.
Season Play Card
The card on the season's shared calendar: your first card of each season.
side card
Any other card. It runs on its own start and end dates.
square
Anything on a card, whoever dropped it: a chore, a side quest, a habit.
spot
A place on the card where a square sits. An empty spot has no square yet.
free space
The centre spot, labelled FREE. It is always daubed.
stacked square
A spot holding two squares. Either one being daubed counts for the spot.
line
Any row, column or diagonal.
bingo
A line with every square daubed, or a full group with every square daubed.
group
An optional label on a square: Just for fun, Self-care, Money, Relationships, Life stuff.
receipt
A photo or a link that shows a square happened.
verse
One part of a square's haiku: 5 syllables, or 7 in the middle.
haiku
Three verses, 5, 7 and 5 syllables, that you and your crew drop on a square.
backlog
Squares you've written down and haven't dropped yet.
drop
Place a square on a card, or a verse on a square.
stack
Drop a square onto a spot that already has one.
daub
Say a square is done, with a tap.
hit
Complete a line or a bingo.
put a reward on
Promise a reward on a line: something you'll do if the owner hits it.
deliver on
Give the reward you promised.
Lock it in
The button that fixes a card's squares in place. The card is Locked in from then.
cheer
The one reaction you can send on an update.
share
Post a square or your card outside the app, as a video, a picture or a link.
spin
Fill a square's words, or a few empty spots, with ideas, like a slot machine. Drop the ones you like and spin the rest.
In the lobby
A card before its first lock.
Locked in
A card after its first lock: its squares stay put.
Drafts Era
A card's first 21 days: your time to drop squares and lock.
Last call
The final day of Drafts Era, for a card still in the lobby.
Daubing Season
From the lock until reveal day: no more drops from you, keep daubing.
reveal day
The day a card reveals and every reward comes out.
sealed
Hidden until reveal day, from the card's owner too. Rewards are sealed.
Incoming
A reward whose line was hit. It's on its way.
Cleared
An Incoming reward that has been delivered on.
Absolved
A reward whose line was missed. There's nothing to deliver on.
friend
One person on your card.
crew
Everyone on your card, and the page where you see them.
invite link
The link that brings friends onto your card.
reward
What a friend promises to do if you hit the line: something they'd actually do. No money.
boops
Heads-ups about things people did that involve you.
updates
What's been happening on the cards you're on, newest first.
setup
A card's own page, for its name, dates and invite link.
the river
Updates beside your card, from it and every card you're on, with what needs you on top.
Settings
The page for your whole account, like your emails.
Your turn
The list on your crew page of what your friends' cards are waiting on from you.
Swipe through
The phone view that shows one square per screen.
What's new
The page listing recent changes to the app.
theme, sound pack
How the app looks, and how it sounds.
Season Play Pass
Extras you can buy on top of a free card. Not switched on: everything is free this season.
The rules

What you can and can't do

  • SquaresYou can: Drop one in any empty spot you tap, or spin for ideas. Edit your own words until reveal day.You can't: Move or remove squares after the lock. Remove a square a friend stacked on. Edit a friend's words.
  • StackingYou can: Stack your square on a friend's while in the lobby.You can't: Stack on your own square. Have more than two squares in a spot.
  • Card sizeYou can: Grow a 3×3 to a 5×5 once, before the lock.You can't: Grow after the lock, grow twice, or shrink a card.
  • Free spaceYou can: Rename it, clear its words, add a photo.You can't: Daub, undaub, drop on or stack on it.
  • LockingYou can: Lock once every spot has a square, or let the card lock itself when Drafts Era ends.You can't: Undo a lock, or lock a card with empty spots yourself.
  • Your crewYou can: Invite friends any time. Decline their squares without them knowing. Ask each friend once to take another look. Rename them on your card. Remove one from your card, and a friend can leave it too.You can't: Join your own card. See a reward before reveal day. Decline a friend's lone square after the lock.
  • SharingYou can: Share a square or your card as a video, a picture and a link. Turn a link off any time.You can't: Share someone else's card. Show who's on yours, or what they promised.
  • As a friendYou can: Drop one square per card. Put a reward on one line per card. Leave a card any time.You can't: Drop a second square on the same card. Put a reward on a single square. Daub squares on someone else's card.
  • HaikuYou can: Drop the next verse on any square of a card you're on, when its syllables fit.You can't: Drop two in a row inside ten minutes. Add to a square's verses after reveal day. Read a card's verses from outside its crew.
  • RewardsYou can: Promise something you'd actually do.You can't: Promise money, or anything that only works out if a friend misses.
  • InvitesYou can: Close them early, once the card is locked.You can't: Reopen them once closed.
  • Reveal dayYou can: Watch the reveal, and press Mark cleared on each reward delivered on.You can't: Change a revealed card's squares, daubs or receipts, or keep it private.
  • EverydayYou can: Ignore the card for weeks. It keeps running.You can't: Get streaks, points or reminders to come back.

Numbers at a glance

  • 9
    spots
  • 8
    spots to fill
  • 3
    squares in a line
  • 8
    lines
  • 3
    squares for a full group
  • 14
    friends on a card, at most
Squares per spot
Up to 2
Squares per friend, per card
1
Rewards per friend, per card
1
Groups
5
Times a card can grow
Once, before the lock
Drafts Era
21 days
Last call email
3 days before Drafts Era ends, if still in the lobby
Sharing week
7 days, from reveal day
Negotiation asks
1 per friend, per card
Change requests
1 per friend, per card, after the lock

Your season, on one card.

Start one on your own or with your crew. Everything is free this season.

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