Each blind-bag figurine hatches into a pet that grows over months as your children build good habits. Parents approve every activity.
Setting up
- Activate each blind bag under My games using the code inside it.
- Open Games → Thrivelings → Parent area and add your children.
- Check the activities and their rewards. Add your own, each on a fixed tier of 5, 15 or 30 coins.
- With the Family Plan, set quiet times under Quiet times and healthy limits: bedtime, plus extra times you choose, such as school hours on weekdays or church on Sundays. Pets rest during quiet times and don’t respond.
- Also with the plan, choose a daily play limit. After that many games, pets say they’re tired and ask to play tomorrow.
- Tap the figurine with your phone while you’re logged in, and choose which child will raise it. The egg hatches to reveal who’s inside.
Everyday play
- Your child taps I did it on an activity in the Kids’ view.
- You approve it in the Parent area, and the coins arrive.
- Coins buy treats that make pets happy. Treats never speed up growth.
- Pets are alive between good deeds too. Tummy, Joy and Energy change through the day. Children can talk to their pet, feed it, give it a treat, rest, play one of five brain games (hide and seek with shuffling bushes, memory match, word guess, copy my dance, and snack sums, all sized to the child’s age) or have a friendly spar with a wild Thriveling. Tapping the figurine opens the same screen on a phone.
- Every Thriveling has its own personality from its element. It greets your child by name, tells them how it feels, and suggests good deeds it loves from your activity list.
- Caring every day builds a friendship level and a daily streak. A well-cared-for pet is stronger in a spar. Care never makes a pet grow faster; only good habits do.
- Pets grow from egg to hatchling, juvenile, adolescent and adult, plus a rare elder stage. Each step needs time and good weeks, meaning at least 4 active days in the week.
- The Codex shows every species your family has found, and the meaning behind each name.
Questions
Do I need the Family Plan?
Hatching, caring for and playing with pets, the brain games, the Codex, adding children and trades are free. Approving activities, paying coins, growing pets, setting activities, quiet times and the daily play limit need the Family Plan: R59 a month or R590 a year. It’s prepaid and never renews by itself.
Why isn’t our pet growing?
Growth needs both time and consistency. Check “This week” on the pet’s card: it counts days with at least one approved activity. Four or more makes a good week.
Can I lock school or church hours?
Yes, with the Family Plan. In the Parent area, under Quiet times and healthy limits, add School hours, Church, Homework time, Family dinner or your own. Choose the days and times, and switch any of them off for holidays. During a quiet time pets rest, the figurine says so when tapped, and children can’t tick off activities. Quiet times you set stay in force even if your plan ends.
Can my pet get sick or die?
Never. If it’s left alone its tummy and joy drop a little and it says it misses your child, but it always bounces back with some care.
What are the blind-bag odds?
60% Common, 25% Uncommon, 12% Rare and 3% Legendary. There are 24 species to collect.
How do trades work?
When another family’s signed-in host taps your figurine, they can ask for a trade. Nothing changes unless you approve it in the Parent area. The pet keeps its growth with its new family.
We lost the figurine
Your pet stays safe on your profile. You only need the figurine to tap and greet it.
Can my child buy anything?
No. There are no purchases anywhere in the children’s view.
Still stuck? Email support@lunchboxgames.co.za or use the contact form. Include your kit ID (on the activation card, such as S-AB3CD) or your order number, and we’ll get back to you within two working days.