New Games
8 New Emoji Games on Emojar 🎮
Emojar started with 10 emoji-themed games. Today we are doubling down and launching 8 more, bringing the total to 18 free games — all playable in your browser, no download, no account.
Here is what just launched.
1. Emoji Wordle
Wordle, but every target word is the official Unicode name of an emoji. You get six guesses to identify a random five-letter emoji name. After each guess the tiles turn green (correct position), yellow (wrong position), or gray (not in the word). A colour-coded on-screen keyboard tracks every letter you have tried. A new random emoji name is picked each game, drawn from the full 3,700-plus emoji dataset.
If you have ever played the original Wordle you will find this instantly familiar — with the added twist that the word is always emoji-adjacent. "FLAME", "GLOBE", "HEART", "SWORD", "PIZZA" — the variety is surprising.
2. Emoji 2048
The classic 2048 sliding-tile puzzle — but every power-of-two tile is an emoji. Tiles start as 🌱 (2) and evolve through 🌿, 🍀, 🌸, 🌺, 🌻, 🎃, 🎄, 🌈, ⭐, and finally 🏆 (2048). Use arrow keys on desktop or swipe on mobile. Your score and personal best are saved in your browser so you can pick up where you left off.
The emoji progression gives the tile-merging mechanic a satisfying visual arc that plain numbers lack — watching 🌱 grow into 🏆 through ten merges feels like an actual journey.
3. Emoji Whack-a-Mole
A 3x3 grid of holes. Random emojis pop up one at a time — click or tap them before they disappear. The spawn rate speeds up as time passes, so the last ten seconds of a 30-second round are genuinely frantic. Your score is how many you hit. High scores are saved locally so you can compete against yourself.
This is the most accessible game in the set — it needs no explanation and works perfectly on a phone.
4. Emoji Speed Sort
One emoji appears on screen. Four category buttons appear below it. You have three seconds to press the correct category. Ten rounds per game, with a streak bonus for consecutive correct answers.
The four categories are Smileys and Emotion, Animals and Nature, Food and Drink, and Travel and Places — common enough that you can build intuition quickly, but varied enough that you will occasionally be surprised. Speed Sort is ideal for short breaks when you want something with a definite end point.
5. Emoji Timeline Challenge
Five emojis appear in a scrambled order. Your job is to rearrange them from oldest to newest based on when they were added to Unicode. Click an emoji to pick it up, then click a slot to place it. Hit Submit to see how many you got right. The game reveals the actual Unicode version for each emoji after you submit.
Five rounds total, 25 possible correct placements. It is a surprisingly effective way to learn emoji history — you quickly develop a sense for which emojis are "classic" (Unicode 6.0 from 2010) and which are recent additions.
6. Emoji Pictionary
An emoji clue appears on screen. Type what you think it represents and press Enter. The game accepts any of the valid answers (case-insensitive). A 60-second timer runs while you try to get through as many clues as possible. Skip a clue if you are stuck — it moves to the next one immediately.
The clue set covers 40 common concepts: emotions, actions, places, things. Some are obvious (🔥 = fire / hot), others are trickier (📚 = books / library / read). Your final score is how many you answered correctly before time ran out.
7. Emoji Missing Piece
A 3x3 grid of emojis all from the same category — with one cell hidden behind a question mark. Four answer options appear below the grid. Pick the emoji you think belongs in the hidden cell. Ten rounds total.
This is part pattern recognition, part emoji knowledge. You learn to associate emojis within categories, which makes it a gentle quiz format for anyone building their emoji literacy.
8. Emoji Story Builder
Six chapter slots. For each slot, four emoji options appear from different categories — pick one. After you have chosen all six, the game assembles your picks into a short story using a fill-in template: "Once there was a [name]...", "Then suddenly a [name] appeared...", and so on.
When your story is complete, copy it to your clipboard and share it. Hit New Story to start over with a fresh set of emoji options. The randomised choices mean every story is different, and the juxtapositions that emerge from the template often produce genuinely funny results.
Where to find all 18 games
All 18 emoji games are listed on the Games hub. You can also reach individual games from the Games menu in the site navigation — the dropdown now includes all 18 titles.
Every game runs entirely in your browser. No account, no download, no ads on game pages.
More games are in the pipeline. If you have an idea for an emoji game you would like to see, let us know.