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2 emoji. Did the first arrive before, with or after the second? The years come with the answer.
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🌉bridge at night
🦜parrot
Did the first emoji arrive before, with or after the second?
How it works
- Every emoji has a date: the Emoji version that first listed it. Decide whether the first one came before, with or after the second.
- Same version is a real answer, and comes up on purpose about 1 pair in 4.
- A right answer is 100 points, and 3 in a row add 25 to each one after.
- Either way, the answer names both versions with their years, and the round moves on by itself. 15 pairs a round.
Controls
- Click or tap Before, Same version or After.
- Keys 1, 2 and 3 pick them in that order; Tab walks them, Space or Enter picks one.
- R starts a new round.
What "arrived" means here
The date is the Emoji version that first listed the character, as Unicode's own emoji-test.txt records it. Emoji 1.0 is 2015, and the numbering then follows Unicode from 11.0 in 2018 onward. Two older sets sit before 1.0: Emoji 0.6 is the original Japanese carrier emoji that Unicode 6.0 standardised in
2010, and 0.7 the additions of Unicode 7.0 in 2014. The whole list with those versions is on the emoji list.
Nothing leaves the tab
The pairs are drawn here from a list in the page, and your best is remembered by this browser and nowhere else.
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