Emoji Decoder
30 emoji puzzles — films, songs, sayings, and five only the two of you can solve.
30 questions · Free
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Tap the card to play through every prompt.
About Emoji Decoder
Emoji decoder gives you a string of emoji and asks what it means. These 30 puzzles run through films, songs and sayings everybody knows — and then five that only the two of you can solve, because they are about your own relationship. Guess out loud before you reveal; being confidently wrong is most of the entertainment.
Sample questions to get you started
- 1🦁👑 → The Lion King (Movie)
- 2🚢🧊💔 → Titanic (Movie)
- 3🎈🏠👴 → Up (Movie)
- 4🐠🔍🌊 → Finding Nemo (Movie)
- 5❄️👭⛄ → Frozen (Movie)
- 6🍫🏭🎩 → Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie)
- 7🦖🏝️⛈️ → Jurassic Park (Movie)
- 8👽🚲🌕 → E.T. (Movie)
- 9🔴💊🕶️ → The Matrix (Movie)
- 10👠🎃🕛 → Cinderella (Movie)
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- 11🕷️🕸️🧑 → Spider-Man (Movie)
- 12💍🌋🧙♂️ → The Lord of the Rings (Movie)
- 13🥊🇺🇸🏃♂️ → Rocky (Movie)
- 14🤡🎈🚲 → It (Movie)
- 15🐷🕸️🚜 → Charlotte's Web (Movie)
- 16🌧️💃🎶 → Singin' in the Rain (Song)
- 17💛🚢🎵 → Yellow Submarine (Song)
- 18🚀🧑🚀🎸 → Rocket Man (Song)
- 19🔥💍🎤 → Ring of Fire (Song)
- 20🌉😢💧 → Bridge Over Troubled Water (Song)
- 21🌧️🐱🐶 → Raining cats and dogs (Saying)
- 22🧊🔨 → Break the ice (Saying)
- 23🎂🍽️ → Have your cake and eat it (Saying)
- 24🦋🫃 → Butterflies in your stomach (Saying)
- 25🌕🤩 → Over the moon (Saying)
- 26🍕🎬🛋️ → A typical Friday night (Us)
- 27📦🔑🏠 → Moving in together (Us)
- 28😤🤐🚪 → A silent argument (Us)
- 29☕📱🌅 → The first ten minutes of the day (Us)
- 30🍳🔥🚨 → Someone's cooking (Us)
Tap the game above to play through all prompts.
How to play Emoji Decoder
- One of you reads the emoji out loud, or shows the screen.
- The other guesses. The category label is your only hint.
- Tap Reveal answer once they have committed to a guess.
- A point per correct guess, swapping every card.
- When you run out, write five of your own about your own history.
Why couples love this game
It is a puzzle game that needs no emotional labour whatsoever, which is exactly what some evenings call for. The film and song rounds are a fair fight; the last five are where one of you turns out to remember a Tuesday from four years ago in far more detail than the other.
Tips to make it more fun
- Commit to a guess before revealing. Half-guessing ruins it.
- The last five are the best ones — save them.
- Send one to each other by text during the week.
- The ones you write yourselves always beat the ones we wrote.
Frequently asked questions
How do you play emoji decoder?
One person shows a string of emoji and the other guesses what it represents. The category label — film, song, saying — is the only hint. Reveal the answer once they have committed, and score a point per correct guess.
What kinds of puzzles are there?
Fifteen films, five songs, five sayings and five about your own relationship. The last five are the ones couples enjoy most, because nobody else in the world could solve them.
Does it work over text?
Very well. Sending each other one a day is arguably the better version of the game — and writing your own is the point at which it gets genuinely good.
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