My new love – Guess The Emoji!

Guess The Emoji Logo
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I am ashamed to admit this but I have been swept up by a gaming craze and I just have to blog about it! Guess the Emoji is the app and I am obsessed! (I think it is mainly because I am good at it.) It appeals to my nerdy, bookworm, puzzle-loving side. And believe it or not it satisfies me in the same way a crossword does. Now don’t get me wrong it’s not of the same difficulty level, oh far from it but it is brilliant all the same.

Guess the emoji could be described as the ultimate technological guessing game. Maybe it could even rival the ‘’Eye Spy’’ of our time? It tests your logic and reasoning skills to solve emoji Puzzles. The game has very simple, clear graphics. The emojis used are common and well known on iPhones and some android models.  

It has a blank white screen where a selection of emojis are displayed. They have been grouped together in such a way to create a word or phrase. In a purple box underneath contain a series of letters that make up the said phrase or word are offered to you and you must try guess what these emojis are describing. There are many different levels with increasing degrees of difficulty. The game also offers tools that allow you to use up your coins to help you discover the word or phrase. They give you three options; 1. Expose a letter, 2. Remove letters, and 3. Solve this question. It also allows you to upload whichever one you are stuck on up to Facebook to receive help.

Graphics example and gameplay:

Guess the Emoji Gameplay and Graphics
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I’m not as negative against this type of app game because in my opinion I feel like it is similar to brain training. I am really concentrating and thinking to get it right. Maybe that’s just me though. I know others are getting extremely frustrated at this game but I really enjoy cognitive skill games. I find this kind of genre of tactic and deduction a lot more appealing than Flappy Birds for example… All in all I would give 5/5 rating on this apps performance. Maybe I will be a hard-core gamer girl after all?

From the beginning – this is me.

My life without media – look at how happy I am!

I am 19 years of age and I am not the typical teenage stereotype. I act like my grandparents when faced with the task of doing things online. Technology and I have never mixed.

Yes, I do text and I am on Facebook but honestly it is to keep in contact with family and friends that I do not often see. I would not have a notion of how to use Twitter or Instagram; I barely even know what they are or why they are so popular.

I had to create a blog that was media based for a module in University. So, I decided that this blog should map my journey of exploration into the technological age – the life of a modern teenager. I am a bookworm at my core and would always choose a classic novel over the newest app available.

I spent six months in Ghana, West Africa at the start of 2013 and I grew very used to not having any technology available to me. There was no internet and I barely had any contact with home due to the terrible phone signal. And I was happy. I am only now using Facebook on a regular basis and I don’t text message like I used to. I much prefer face to face contact – instant message and texts are now extremely impersonal to me and not at all satisfying.

So this will be an interesting journey to see if I am swept up in the craze of the technological age!