Computer Science trivia
Name an emoji
Everyone has a first answer to “Name an emoji”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 390 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Thumbs up
- Crying laughing face
- Red heart
- Smiley face
- Fire
- Crying face
- Skull
- Praying hands
- Heart eyes
- Winking face
- Pile of poo
- Thinking face
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Clapping hands
- Grinning face
- Beaming face
- Sad face
- Loudly crying face
- Angry face
- Sunglasses face
- Kissing face
- Face blowing a kiss
- Sleeping face
- Surprised face
- Screaming face
- Eye roll
- Shrug
- Facepalm
- Hundred points
- Party popper
- Thumbs down
- OK hand
- Victory hand
- Crossed fingers
- Waving hand
- Flexed biceps
- Handshake
- Eyes
- Sparkles
- Star
- Rocket
- Rainbow
- Ghost
- Alien
- Robot
- Clown face
- Devil
- Angel
- Nerd face
- Cowboy hat face
- Partying face
- Zany face
- Money-mouth face
- Hugging face
- Upside-down face
- Slightly smiling face
- Pleading face
- Exploding head
- Broken heart
- Eggplant
- Peach
- Pizza
- Unicorn
- Sun
- Moon
- Cloud
- Snowman
- Christmas tree
- Cake
- Gift
- Balloon
- Dog
- Cat
- Monkey
- See-no-evil monkey
- Hear-no-evil monkey
- Speak-no-evil monkey
How deep does “Name an emoji” go?
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsThumbs up · Crying laughing face · Red heart
- Below the Surface64 answers · 25 ptsClapping hands · Grinning face · Beaming face …
- The Deep166 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss147 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 166 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y and Z. The Abyss has 147 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 390 answers in total, 249 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Boy”. Longest: “Face with open eyes and hand over mouth”.
- S, P and F are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 100 answers can be typed more than one way: “Sobbing face” counts as Loudly crying face.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 47 of the answers begin with it.
- Thumbs up, Crying laughing face and Red heart are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Standards and their organisations hide many deep answers.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name an emoji”?
- The usual first answers are Thumbs up, Crying laughing face, Red heart, Smiley face and Fire. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name an emoji”?
- 390 in all: 12 on The Tip, 64 Below the Surface, 166 in The Deep, 147 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name an emoji” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Boy” and the longest is “Face with open eyes and hand over mouth”.
- How hard is “Name an emoji”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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