Emoji puzzle
A pair of emoji makes a word when you say them out loud. Hints included.
The round
1/10question
0score
0streak
—your best
🙂
Type what the emoji spell out, then press Check or Enter.
How it works
- Read the 2 emoji as words and run them together: 🐝 and 🍃 are bee and leaf, so the answer is belief.
- A right answer is 100 points, less 20 for each wrong guess and 40 for a hint.
- 3 right in a row start a streak worth 20 a question.
- Spelling is forgiving: spaces, hyphens and capitals are ignored.
Controls
- Type the answer and press Enter, or the Check button.
- Hint fills in half the letters.
- Skip shows the answer and moves on.
Why saying it out loud works
A rebus is a pun with the spelling removed. 🐝 is not an insect here, it is the sound "bee", and the puzzle is solved in the ear rather than in the eye. That is also the reason a rebus survives translation badly and a picture puzzle does not: the answer lives in how the words sound in 1 language.
Nothing leaves the tab
The questions, the checking and the score all happen in this tab. Your best is remembered on this device and goes nowhere else. The answers travel with the page, because a game that never asks a server has to carry them: anyone determined enough to go looking will find them.
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React to more than a scoreboard
The score here is yours alone, kept on this device. Emojery counts emoji where other people can see them: on the post, the video, the repo or the product you are already looking at.