Daily Emoji Anagram

Emoji Anagram shows you a short row of emojis and a set of empty letter slots. The emojis either spell the answer out in pieces or point at it sideways, and you uncover it by guessing letters. Nothing can end the round early — your score is simply how few wrong letters it took you.

How to play Emoji Anagram

  1. Read the emojis and look at the slots: they are split into words, so the shape of the answer is visible from the start.
  2. Tap a letter on the keyboard to guess it — there is no typing the answer in, only guessing letters.
  3. A letter that appears in the answer fills every slot it belongs to at once and turns green on the keyboard.
  4. A letter that does not appear greys out, the board shakes, and your mistake count goes up by one.
  5. Mistakes are counted but not limited, so you cannot lose the day — the count is your score, and a clean solve shows no mistakes at all.
  6. The hint does two things at once: it reveals a written clue about the answer and fills in one more letter for you. You get one per puzzle.
  7. The puzzle is solved once every different letter in the answer has been found.

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Two emojis, and the slots show a five-letter word followed by a four-letter one. Honey and moon give you HONEY MOON, and the letters do the rest of the work: there are nine slots but only six different letters in them. Guessing O alone fills three of the nine — the O in HONEY and both Os in MOON — and N fills two more. Six correct taps clear the board, which is why a repeated-letter answer is far cheaper than its length suggests.

Emoji Anagram strategy

Read the emojis as parts, not as a picture

Many days are rebus-style: each emoji is a syllable or a whole small word, and the answer is those pieces bolted together. A car and a dog are not about vehicles or pets — they are CAR and PET. Before you guess a single letter, try saying the emojis aloud in order and see whether the sounds make something.

Let the slot pattern narrow the answer first

The number of words and the length of each is given away before you guess anything. Two words of five and four rule out most single-word readings; a single three-letter word rules out almost everything. Fit your reading of the emojis to the shape rather than guessing letters and hoping.

Open with vowels, but not with E on autopilot

A and O are in almost every long answer and each hit can fill several slots at once, which is cheap information. E is the most common letter in English generally but it is missing from plenty of short answers, so it is not the free tap it looks like — guess it after you have a rough idea of the phrase rather than reflexively.

Guess letters your reading predicts, not common letters

Once you think the answer is HONEYMOON, the best tap is not the next most frequent letter in English — it is Y, because a hit confirms the whole reading and a miss tells you immediately that you are wrong. Testing your theory costs the same as a blind guess and tells you far more.

Take the hint for the clue, not for the letter

The letter it hands you is worth one tap; the written clue is worth the whole puzzle when the emojis are being cryptic rather than literal. If you are staring at emojis with no idea whether they are pieces of a word or a description of a concept, the clue resolves that in one go.

Frequently asked questions

Can I lose an Emoji Anagram?
No. Wrong letters are counted and shown above the board, but there is no limit on them, so the puzzle can always be finished. The mistake count is the score.
Can I type the answer instead of guessing letters?
No. The only input is the letter keyboard, and the puzzle completes when every different letter in the answer has been uncovered.
Do I get a hint?
One per puzzle. It shows a written clue about the answer and reveals one more letter at the same time.
Do repeated letters cost more than one guess?
No. One correct tap fills every slot that letter occupies, so answers with doubled or tripled letters take fewer guesses than their length suggests.
Is there a new puzzle every day?
Yes, one a day and the same one for everyone, with a single attempt. Past days and their answers are in the Emoji Anagram archive.
Do I need an account?
No. It is free with no sign-up, and your progress is kept in your own browser.

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