Seasonal tree discovery
The North Pole Halloween Tree
Christmas trees aren't the only trees at the North Pole.
A North Pole attraction
elfNsanta's Christmas Tree Lot
Pick a tree. Play a song. Grow some Christmas.
Choose the real tree or the digital tree
Experience one
The Real Tree
“Oh My Christmas Tree”
Snow, sap and six original pines standing in a very cold forest. Learn what a whorl actually is, adopt a tree, and take home the adoption papers.
Enter the forestExperience two
The Digital Tree
“O ASCII Christmas Tree”
A working ASCII Christmas tree generator with snow, decorations, caret stars and a blinking cursor that is definitely hiding something.
Boot the terminalVisit the Halloween Tree
🎄 Choose Your Tree
The great North Pole tree debate has begun. Pick a side!
Two original elfNsanta Christmas tree songs, one very silly argument: a real pine in the corner, or an ASCII tree in a terminal.
🌲 Team Real
“Oh My Christmas Tree”
Pine needles. Sap. That amazing Christmas-tree smell. The classic.
💻🎄 Team Digital
“O ASCII Christmas Tree”
No needles. No sap. No watering. Just Christmas, one character at a time.
The great North Pole tree vote so far
Counting the votes…
REAL or DIGITAL — a Christmas tree is still worth hugging.
Please hug your monitor responsibly.
ENTR 12.25 FM
elfNsanta Tree Lot Radio
A little wooden radio by the gate, two suspiciously musical trees, and a Christmas Egg hidden somewhere between them. Nothing plays until you press play.
elfNsanta Tree Lot Radio and the musical trees
elfNsanta Tree Lot Radio
StandbyTuned to
ENTR 12.25 FM
A pretend North Pole frequency. Not a real broadcast station.
Now playing
Oh My Christmas Tree — ready
Nothing plays until you press play. Songs stream from the official elfNsanta YouTube channel.
Oh My Christmas Tree
Press play and the Tree Lot speakers wake up. Volume is entirely between you and your household.
Two trees in this lot are humming
Look for the little musical-note tag. Tap a tree and the Tree Lot Radio tunes straight to its song.
Musical tree
The Proud Pine
“Stiff. Proud. Piney.”
Plays: “Oh My Christmas Tree”
Musical tree
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=====The ASCII Tree
“Grown entirely from characters. Requires no watering.”
Plays: “O ASCII Christmas Tree”
Songs Growing in This Lot
Growing beside The Proud Pine
Oh My Christmas Tree
A tree that stands so straight it makes the other trees nervous — and smells like a forest that followed you home.
Growing beside The ASCII Tree
O ASCII Christmas Tree
Slashes, pipes and one very determined caret star. Christmas, rendered at a cosy 80 columns.
Tree Lot mission
Watch → Play → Collect
0 of 3 stages complete
Watch
Play a song on the Tree Lot Radio.
Not yet
Play
Discover both musical trees.
Not yet
Collect
Crack the Christmas Egg and get certified.
Not yet
Progress is remembered in this browser only — no login, no email. We can’t tell whether a song played all the way through, so this tracks the trees you discovered.
Checking the lot…
Watch • Play • Collect
Two songs, four ways to enjoy each one
Watch the videos, sing along, play the tree experiences and collect the keepsakes — all four are live for both songs.
Watch, sing, play and collect at the Christmas Tree Lot
Oh My Christmas Tree
O ASCII Christmas Tree
Experience one · The forest
Know Your Christmas Tree
Leaders, whorls, stems, branches, needles and sap — what each part actually does, plus one elfNsanta joke per part.
The real tree experience
Tap a label on the tree.
Tree anatomy
Leader
The leader is the single straight shoot at the very top of the tree. It grows upward each year and decides how tall the tree becomes — and it is exactly where the star goes.
elfNsanta fact (definitely a joke)
“Officially the only part of Christmas that always knows which way is up.”
Tree adoption
Find Your Christmas Tree
Enter the forest, pick a tree, name it, bring it home to the Tree Lot — then print your official adoption certificate.
Find your Christmas tree
- Enter the forest
- Pick a tree
- Name it
- Bring it home
The forest is very cold and full of options
Six original trees are standing out there with their families, whorls perfectly stacked, quietly hoping you have a saw and a sense of humour.
Experience two · The terminal
ASCII Christmas Tree Generator
Set the height, snow, decorations and star, then watch it grow from base to top. Copy it anywhere you like.
The digital tree experience
Tree parameters
ASCII Christmas Tree Generator
Letters, numbers and simple punctuation only — printed under the tree.
9
4
4
northpole@treelot: ~/christmas
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Somewhere in that terminal there is a blinking cursor. It has been blinking for a suspiciously long time.
Shared activity
Tree Decorating Contest
Ornaments, lights, candy canes, cookies, a topper and a few decorations nobody at the North Pole voted for.
Tree decorating contest
elfNsanta Tree Decorating Contest
The Contest Tree
elfnsanta.com
Decoration kit
Decorate the tree
Pick as many as you dare. The elves are judging, but kindly.
5/10
Five questions
Which Kind of Christmas Tree Are You?
Team Pine, Team ASCII, or the increasingly common Hybrid Christmas Tree.
Which kind of Christmas tree are you?
1. It is December 1st. What is the best Christmas smell?
2. How does your tree go up?
3. Something has gone wrong with the tree. Your first move?
4. Which decoration matters most?
5. January arrives. What is the aftermath?
0 of 5 answered
Trees I've hugged
🌲 Tree Passport
A little book by the gate for stamping the trees you meet — including the rare seasonal specimens that only turn up when their vault is open.
Tree Passport — trees I have hugged
🌲 Tree Passport
Trees I've Hugged
Opening your passport…
Seasonal specimens are rare — they turn up in the lot when their Seasonal Vault is open. Stored in this browser only.
The Real Tree
Choose Team Real in Choose Your Tree, or adopt a tree in the forest.
The Digital Tree
Choose Team Digital, or grow a tree in the ASCII generator.
Undiscovered specimen
A rare seasonal specimen. It appears in the lot when its Seasonal Vault opens.
Undiscovered specimen
A rare seasonal specimen. It appears in the lot when its Seasonal Vault opens.
Undiscovered specimen
A future tree is being grown for this slot. Nothing to find here yet.
🎃🎄Locked bonus content☀️🎄Locked bonus content
Every hug counts towards the same Tree Lot collection — keep going and the Certified Tree Hugger certificate is waiting at the radio.
Rewards
Your Tree Lot collection
Six collectibles live here. Each one unlocks only after you genuinely finish the matching experience.
Tree Lot collectibles
Tree Lot collectibles
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Stored in this browser only — no account, no payment, ever.
Tree Adoption Papers
Complete Find Your Christmas Tree and name your tree.
Go and earn itTree Decorating Contest
Decorate a tree in the Tree Decorating Contest.
Go and earn itASCII Christmas Tree Egg
Something in the terminal blinks. Keep tapping it.
Go and earn itTeam Pine
Take the Which Kind of Christmas Tree Are You? quiz.
Go and earn itTeam ASCII
Take the Which Kind of Christmas Tree Are You? quiz.
Go and earn itHybrid Christmas Tree
Take the Which Kind of Christmas Tree Are You? quiz.
Go and earn itCertified Tree Hugger
Discover both musical trees, then crack the Christmas Egg at the Tree Lot Radio.
Go and earn it
You just
You wandered through elfNsanta's Christmas Tree Lot — forest on one side, terminal on the other.
Next adventure
Sing in the Karaoke Cabin
Grab the mic — every elfNsanta song is built for singing along, badly and loudly.