Emoji word hunt
Each emoji names a word hidden in the grid. Find them all, in any direction.
The grid
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—your best
Drag across a word, or click its first and last letter.
How it works
- Every emoji in the list names a word hidden in the grid: 🍎 is APPLE.
- Words run in all 8 directions, backwards included.
- Drag from the first letter to the last, or click the 2 ends.
- The clock counts up, and your quickest full board is what is kept.
Controls
- Drag across the letters, or click the first and last of a word.
- Tab walks the grid, Space or Enter marks an end.
- R deals a new grid.
The emoji is the clue, not the answer
A word search usually hands you the list of words, which turns it into pattern matching. Here the list is 8 emoji, so every word costs a moment of naming it first: 🦅 is EAGLE rather than BIRD, and 🍟 is CHIPS or FRIES depending on where you grew up. The grid only hides 1 of those, which is the part that makes an easy puzzle occasionally infuriating.
Nothing leaves the tab
The grid is built here from a word list that travels with the page, and your quickest full board is remembered on this device.
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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.