About The Emoji Test
Emoji have become part of how we communicate, you may well use them to express your feelings 😁 or react to messages from others. 👍
But how well do you really know emoji? The Emoji Test is a Wordle-like daily visual word puzzle that helps you find out. 🧩
How to play
The gameplay will be familiar to anyone who has played daily word games like Wordle.
Each day, you are presented with a clue 🕵️ in the form of emoji. You have to guess the word based on those emoji.
For each puzzle, look 👀 at the clue and try to guess what it means. The blank panels will indicate the length of the answer, between five and twelve letters.
When you enter your word, each letter will change color.
- 💙 A blue letter is in the right place.
- 💛 A yellow letter is in the word, but not in the right place.
- 🩶 Grey letters are not in the word at all.
Use the letters to help guide you towards the correct answer. You have five guesses. Can you get the answer before your guesses are exhausted? 🤷
Tips
Success needs a mix of lateral thinking and logic and, of course, knowledge of emoji!
Think about the emoji
The Emoji Test presents different types of emoji puzzle, but each will need you to think about what the emoji means and represents to get the word.
Take 🐈, for example. It might be cat, kitten, or moggy. 💤 Could be sleep, snooze, or even snore. But put them together, 🐈 💤, for a six-letter word, and it has to be CATNAP.
Think about the sounds
Some clues work because of the sounds. If you are stuck, try saying 💬 each word out loud. You might need to test it out a bit.
🐝 🍁 is a bee and a maple leaf. Put them together: bee-maple-leaf, bee-leaf, BELIEVE!
Think about what they show
Some clues need you to think beyond what you see, to what they represent.
🌿🦜🐍🌴🐒🐘🌺🦁🐅🌿 might seem a tricky one. It certainly doesn’t make a word, and the sounds don’t blend. But where would you find those animals, trees, plants and leaves together? In a JUNGLE.
Use logic
If you are struggling, use your mistakes ❌ to help.
The coloring on your guesses will help you narrow down options. And if you haven’t got any letters from your clue, the keyboard highlights the letters you have and haven’t used. You might be able to spot words among those letters.
Try guessing
If you are really stumped, then guessing 🤨 can be an effective tactic.
Try to guess effectively, using letters you haven’t tried, and avoiding double letters, so you maximize what you are testing. It will narrow down the options and can help you find the answer.
If you are really stuck, try typing the letters you know in different orders. The process of moving the letters around helps your brain 🧠 identify words and, hopefully, the answer.
How emoji have become another language for us
Emoji are a creation of modern technology 📱. It was not that long ago that they simply couldn’t exist because screen resolutions on phones and even computers 🖥️ were not good enough to display them.
However, they fulfil an important purpose because humans are visual 👁️ creatures. A smiling face, whether real or an emoji, conveys happiness 😊😍😄 far more quickly and far more powerfully than telling someone that you are happy.
Although it took modern screens for emoji to take off, there were precursors. Perhaps the most common was the emoticon :), which was first recorded in 1982. When you turn your head, it looks like a smiling face. In turn, it generated other punctuation combinations, like ;) or ;’(. But the emoji 😀😉😢 add a little more character.
The first emoji were developed in Japan 🇯🇵 in the 1980s, where they featured on electronic devices. Called pictographs at first, the name emoji came from the combination of two Japanese words, e, meaning picture, and moji, meaning character.
It took some time for emoji to take off in the West, but by 2015 they had been so widely embraced that 😂 was named Oxford Dictionaries word of the year in 2015. Today they serve a useful purpose, making communication concise, and often clearer, by helping convey intent when words alone might have ambiguity.
The benefits of the emoji test
Like Wordle, there is just one game a day 📅 (although you can always play past emoji test games) you might think Emoji Test is just for a few moments' entertainment.
But the benefits go much further than the moment of triumph 💯 when you get the clue.
Improve your lateral thinking
Interpreting the emoji creatively, making connections between them and the concepts they represent, helps to improve your lateral thinking. Believe it or not, your problem-solving skills 📝 are improved by playing Emoji Test every day.
Get a better memory
Research has shown that people with better memories 📚 tend to make more connections with them. Instead of memories existing in isolation, they are hooked to other memories and thoughts, even abstract concepts. By linking symbols, words, sounds, and concepts, you are improving your mind’s ability to make the connections that support better memory formation.
Stronger pattern recognition
The color-coded 🌈 feedback helps you with pattern recognition. Seeing the different colors, associated with the letters and sounds, can create nice patterns, but more importantly, you start to use that to interpret and assess information more quickly.
Better language skills
Although some purists reject emoji, using them actually improves your language 🗣️. Because you have to consider different meanings, you are helping expand and practice your vocabulary. Some clues 🔍 strengthen your phonetic skills, and, of course, having to guess the word helps make sure your spelling is correct.
A more flexible mind
Finally, you will have a more flexible mind. Having to think about meanings, different types of clues, and the words and letters that might fit improves your mental dexterity. And the dopamine hit you get from getting a clue right 🙌 helps reinforce those mental exercises.
Get started
The quickest ⏩ way to learn and benefit from The Emoji Test is to play ▶️, so why not jump into a game now. Good luck! 🤞👋