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Order by the year each emoji's character was added to Unicode. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Order by the year each emoji's character was added to Unicode. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
35
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the emoji timeline game
Every card is a single emoji with a short description under its name, and you order them by the year the character was added to Unicode. One emoji starts on the line with its year showing. Each new card asks where it belongs among those already placed. Put it in the right gap and the year is shown; put it in the wrong one and it still settles into its true place, but one of your three lives is lost.
Some of these symbols were characters long before anyone called them emoji, while others arrived in the yearly batches of recent releases. The date is when the character was added to the standard, which can come well before your phone could show it. Faces make up a big share of the deck and are the hardest to separate, since new expressions keep arriving. Food, animals and everyday objects are scattered through, so don't assume the ordinary ones came first.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- ❤️ Red Heart The classic love symbol
- ☺️ Smiling Face Old-school smiley outline
- ☃️ Snowman Snowman with falling snow
- ♻️ Recycling Symbol Three chasing arrows
- ⚡ High Voltage Lightning bolt
- ⭐ Star Medium gold star
- ⚽ Soccer Ball Black and white football
- 😂 Face with Tears of Joy Laughing so hard it cries
- 🍆 Eggplant Purple vegetable with a double meaning
- 🔥 Fire Flame for anything hot
- 💀 Skull Dead from laughing
- 😀 Grinning Face Big toothy smile
- 🤔 Thinking Face Hand on chin, pondering
- 🙃 Upside-Down Face Silly or sarcastic flip
- 🦄 Unicorn Horned horse head
- 🌮 Taco Folded tortilla with fillings
- 🤡 Clown Face Red nose and white face paint
- 🥑 Avocado Halved with the pit showing
- 🤯 Exploding Head Mind blown
- 🧠 Brain Pink organ for big ideas
- 🥳 Partying Face Party hat and noisemaker
- 🦩 Flamingo Pink wading bird
- 🥲 Smiling Face with Tear Happy and sad at once
- 🧋 Bubble Tea Tapioca pearls and a wide straw
- 🫡 Saluting Face Hand raised to the brow
- 🫨 Shaking Face Vibrating with shock
- 🪿 Goose Honking gray bird
- Face with Bags Under Eyes Exhausted and sleep-deprived
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