Emoji Guess

How to play

1. Pick a mode and tap once to start: The home screen has three tiles: Party host (one phone runs the round for the whole room), Daily 5 (the same five cards for everyone today) and Practice (ten cards at your own pace). A tile starts straight away with your last settings; the small settings key under it changes teams, card count, timer, category and difficulty.
2. Read the emoji, take a hint when stuck: Each card shows 2-6 emoji with its category and difficulty in the corner. Three hints are free: the length, how to read it (literally, the story, or sounds-like) and the first word. Every hint lowers the card from 3 points to 2, then 1 — the coin next to the hint key always shows what the card is worth right now.
3. Reveal, score and finish the deck: In party mode the room shouts guesses, the host taps Reveal to flip the card and then the team that got it; the points fly to that team. Hold the eye key to peek at the answer. Daily 5 and Practice are multiple choice: six options, two tries. The results screen shows the ranking with a card-by-card replay you can re-judge, or your five colored squares and streak to share.

Rules & variants

The whole game in one line: a few emoji spell out an answer — guess it and you score. Cards come in three categories: sayings and idioms, movies and TV, and everyday words (things, food, places, holidays), each at easy, medium and hard. With mixed difficulty the first three cards of a game are always easy, so everyone warms up first.

Hints are the heart of it. Hint one tells you how many words and letters; hint two tells you how to read the card — literally (each emoji is a word), the story (the emoji describe what happens) or sounds-like (one emoji is only there for its sound); hint three gives the first word. Hints are free and only lower the card: 3 points with none, 2 with one, 1 with two or three.

Party scoring: 1 to 4 teams, and only one team scores per card. The host holds the phone so everyone can see, the room shouts answers, the host taps Reveal and the card flips to show the answer, an emoji-by-emoji breakdown and any alternative answers to accept. Then tap the team that got it — they get the card's current value — or Nobody. An optional 30 or 60 second timer flips the card automatically and marks it Time's up.

Highest total wins; a tie is a shared win with no tiebreaker. Under the ranking is a card-by-card replay: tap any verdict to cycle it team 1 → team 2 → … → Nobody, and the totals and winner update instantly — perfect for the classic 'we said it first' argument.

Daily 5: the same five cards for everyone each day, difficulty easy, easy, medium, medium, hard. Pick 1 of 6 with two tries. A first-try answer scores 3 minus hints used; each miss costs a point, a second miss reveals the card for 0. Maximum 15. The results show five colored squares (green 3, yellow 2, orange 1, red 0) and your streak, and copy to the clipboard without spoiling any answers.

Streaks count consecutive days with a finished Daily 5. If you haven't played yet today it counts up to yesterday, so the streak doesn't look broken in the morning. Only the first result of a day counts; opening it again shows the read-only result card. Practice keeps a best score per category and difficulty, and the card that beats it gets a New record badge on the spot.

No spoilers: before the reveal the answer, alternatives and unrevealed hints are not on the page at all. The host can hold the eye key to see the answer strip, which disappears the moment the finger lifts. Refreshing or switching apps pauses the game; you come back to the same card with the same time left and tap Resume.

Variants and house rules: one team means no teams — everyone works together for a score. Quickfire: set the timer to 30 seconds. Kids: easy cards, no timer. Movie night: category Movies & TV. The most common house rule is 'close enough counts' — the Also accept list on the back of the card is there for the host.

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