My Prefix comes from a tree and gets salty.
My Infix is a length of time usually equivalent to 4 years.
My Suffix is what you are using right now.
My whole is a game, a TV show, and a noun.
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Sign up to join this communityMy Prefix comes from a tree and gets salty.
My Infix is a length of time usually equivalent to 4 years.
My Suffix is what you are using right now.
My whole is a game, a TV show, and a noun.
I think you are
MASTERMIND.
My Prefix comes from a tree and gets salty.
MAST means the nuts of forest trees -- though usually in the context of having them eaten by animals, where they usually wouldn't be salted. Pugmonkey has a better explanation in comments: this is about the MAST of a ship, which of course gets salty because of seawater.
My Infix is a length of time usually equivalent to 4 years.
In many places a politician's or government's TERM of office is four years.
My Suffix is what you are using right now.
It's hard to solve a puzzle without making at least some use of one's MIND.
My whole is a game, a TV show, and a noun.
Pattern-guessing game; UK quiz show; and of course a noun.