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About The Emoji Test

Emoji have become part of how we communicate, you may well use them to express your feelings ๐Ÿ˜ or react to messages from others. ๐Ÿ‘

But how well do you really know emoji? The Emoji Test is a Wordle-like daily visual word puzzle that helps you find out. ๐Ÿงฉ

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 ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ in the form of emoji. You have to guess the word based on those emoji.

For each puzzle, look ๐Ÿ‘€ 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.

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? ๐Ÿคท

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 ๐Ÿˆ, for example. It might be cat, kitten, or moggy. ๐Ÿ’ค Could be sleep, snooze, or even snore. But put them together, ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ค, 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 ๐Ÿ’ฌ each word out loud. You might need to test it out a bit.

๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ 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.

๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ˜๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ…๐ŸŒฟ might seem a tricky one. It certainly doesnโ€™t make a word, and the sounds donโ€™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 โŒ to help.

The coloring on your guesses will help you narrow down options. And if you havenโ€™t got any letters from your clue, the keyboard highlights the letters you have and havenโ€™t used. You might be able to spot words among those letters.

Try guessing

If you are really stumped, then guessing ๐Ÿคจ can be an effective tactic.

Try to guess effectively, using letters you havenโ€™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 ๐Ÿง  identify words and, hopefully, the answer.

How emoji have become another language for us

Emoji are a creation of modern technology ๐Ÿ“ฑ. It was not that long ago that they simply couldnโ€™t exist because screen resolutions on phones and even computers ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ were not good enough to display them.

However, they fulfil an important purpose because humans are visual ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ creatures. A smiling face, whether real or an emoji, conveys happiness ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜„ 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 ;โ€™(. But the emoji ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜ข add a little more character.

The first emoji were developed in Japan ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต 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.

Emoji present on Sharp PA-8500 (1988)
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It took some time for emoji to take off in the West, but by 2015 they had been so widely embraced that ๐Ÿ˜‚ 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 ๐Ÿ“… (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 ๐Ÿ’ฏ 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 ๐Ÿ“ are improved by playing Emoji Test every day.

Get a better memory

Research has shown that people with better memories ๐Ÿ“š 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 mindโ€™s ability to make the connections that support better memory formation.

Stronger pattern recognition

The color-coded ๐ŸŒˆ 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 ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ. Because you have to consider different meanings, you are helping expand and practice your vocabulary. Some clues ๐Ÿ” 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 ๐Ÿ™Œ helps reinforce those mental exercises.

Get started

The quickest โฉ way to learn and benefit from The Emoji Test is to play โ–ถ๏ธ, so why not jump into a game now. Good luck! ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ‘‹