Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT
It's called simply Emoji Game, and each day you're presented with three phrases, which have some letters filled in, but are mostly blank. There's a partial hint as to what the word or phrase is that you're trying to complete, and then a whole bunch of emoji at the bottom. The idea is to take the words or sounds the emoji represent and use them to fill in the blanks. So — and this is just an example I made up, so it's not a spoiler — you might be presented with SH_ _ _, and an emoji of an elf. Stick it in there and you have a 'shelf.'
It's a novel twist on word games, which have become ubiquitous online over the last three years. It's really forced me to use my brain in a different way, though I'm not sure if I enjoy it just yet. Maybe once it becomes a routine. That said, it's nice that there doesn't appear to be a fail state; when you guess wrong there's no real punishment, though the game does count the number of moves it takes you to complete each puzzle, so there is a competitive element. The most recent few puzzles are also free to play, so you can get a feel for it even if you don't currently have an Apple News Plus subscription. (It's currently available only in the US and Canada.)
The Emoji Game is a small daily diversion, and one that points to the fascinating innovation and experimentation happening in the word game space. After Wordle and the subsequent rush of clones, there hasn't really been a word game that has gone viral in the same way, and so designers are crafting interesting new twists on the formula to stand out. The idea is that you don't necessarily need one blockbuster hit, but instead a varied collection that will keep folks coming back daily. Puzzmo, for instance, has steadily grown since it launched, with everything from an accessible crossword to a weather-based take on sudoku. It just launched an experimental word game called Missing Link that's like an elevated take on word search puzzles.
As subscriptions continue to become an established part of modern life — no shade — these sorts of daily games have proven to be a successful retention tactic. Habits are hard to break, and that's especially true when they provide a brief, welcome respite in the form of clever word play. Or emoji.
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Nineteen per cent of you think Ally Langdon will win it, while 17 per cent say Poh Ling Yeow. And that's the way the bookmakers are going, with Sportsbet paying $1.37 for a McGranger win. They have Langdon at $5 and Hamish Blake at $8.50. Poh Ling Yeow is further back at $13.00 What time do stars start their day for the Logies? While you'll be turning on your TV set in the evening, those involved are getting ready long before you get comfy. And while some celebs' days will be busier than others, Gold Logie nominee Lynne McGranger has offered an insight into how gruelling Sunday can be. "I think I've got to do some early morning television… I'll probably do hair and makeup, and then I'll probably have a couple of hours off," she told Yahoo Lifestyle. "I'll be in makeup again I think at around lunchtime for the Logies, and then I have to be ready to go at 2.30pm – what sort of a ridiculous hour is that?" "But because I'm presenting, I've got to stay nice. 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Sam Pang reveals this year's Logies jokes already had a run Sam Pang is returning for his third consecutive year hosting the Logies. The comedian has been a huge hit in the top gig thanks to his brutal yet hilarious approach, with no-one across Australian TV safe when it comes to his jokes. But there's plenty of work that goes into his presenting, with Pang telling Ross and Russ on 3AW Breakfast he scripted this year's jokes and trialled them at a small comedy club in Melbourne. "I got up for twenty minutes and trialled some stuff," he said, saying some material was cut based on the reaction of the audience. 'The only thing you don't want to do is get up there on Sunday night and say a joke and at the end of it they didn't even know it was a joke." Last year Pang took aim at Channel Seven's internal issues despite the network broadcasting the awards. Sam Pang is returning for his third consecutive year hosting the Logies. The comedian has been a huge hit in the top gig thanks to his brutal yet hilarious approach, with no-one across Australian TV safe when it comes to his jokes. But there's plenty of work that goes into his presenting, with Pang telling Ross and Russ on 3AW Breakfast he scripted this year's jokes and trialled them at a small comedy club in Melbourne. "I got up for twenty minutes and trialled some stuff," he said, saying some material was cut based on the reaction of the audience. 'The only thing you don't want to do is get up there on Sunday night and say a joke and at the end of it they didn't even know it was a joke." Last year Pang took aim at Channel Seven's internal issues despite the network broadcasting the awards. Who do you think will win the Gold Logie? Right. Now we've run you through the Gold Logie nominees, who do you think will win it? Have your say in our poll below. Right. Now we've run you through the Gold Logie nominees, who do you think will win it? Have your say in our poll below. Gold Logie nominee: Hamish Blake Rounding out this year's Gold Logie nominees is Hamish Blake, who has openly discouraged viewers from voting for him as the only man in the group. The comedian and radio host is nominated for Lego Masters, and previously won in both 2012 and 2022. 2025 marks his sixth nomination. Rounding out this year's Gold Logie nominees is Hamish Blake, who has openly discouraged viewers from voting for him as the only man in the group. The comedian and radio host is nominated for Lego Masters, and previously won in both 2012 and 2022. 2025 marks his sixth nomination. How many Logies awards are there? We have a new award tonight in the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Presenter, with a total of 23 awards up for grabs tonight. With so many awards, tonight's proceedings could easily stretch well beyond the scheduled time, as it has done in the past. Last year, the Gold Logie was only handed out close to midnight. So buckle in for a long night. We have a new award tonight in the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Presenter, with a total of 23 awards up for grabs tonight. With so many awards, tonight's proceedings could easily stretch well beyond the scheduled time, as it has done in the past. Last year, the Gold Logie was only handed out close to midnight. So buckle in for a long night.
New York Times
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There Was a Young Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
DWELLING, by Emily Hunt Kivel In the New York of Emily Hunt Kivel's beautifully radical debut novel, 'Dwelling,' tenants find themselves out on the streets thanks to the mayor's 'Revitalization' project, wherein landlords are incentivized to turn their apartments into the equivalent of state-mandated Airbnbs. To readers living in metropolitan areas afflicted with their own housing crises, this premise will not seem implausible. 'The actions had all been engineered to seem so gradual,' Kivel writes, 'even banal.' We learn of the cash-strapped mayor's 'landmark deal with the world's leading vacation rental company,' the lifting of eviction restrictions and rent regulations, federal grants for urban restoration. We learn that 'prices went up. Apartments crumbled down. … No one seemed to understand how, or why, or when to fight it. And who had the time? Who had the money to save money?' Among the evicted is Evie, a 29-year-old graphic designer. With both parents dead and a younger sister, Elena, in a mental institution in Colorado, her first instinct is to ask her boss for a raise so she can put a down payment on a house. Naturally, she is turned down ('this isn't just happening to you,' her boss says; 'I don't own either'). She stores her possessions in her landlady's basement instead and hitches a flight to the fictional town of Gulluck, Texas. There, she is put up by a distant maternal cousin, Terry, who, as luck would have it, works in real estate. With Terry's help — and I implore you to read the following with a straight face — Evie moves into a house shaped like a shoe, has a spiritual revelation while looking at an old, giant fish, begins dating a locksmith named Bertie, decides to become a cobbler, is inducted into an International Grand Shoemaking Association peopled by immortal beings once employed by Voltaire and Cortés, and learns of a prophecy that will change the trajectory of her life. Kivel's magical realist plot can be described as a series of ordinary ideas taken to their logical extreme. Robbed of housing and with little money to her name, Evie moves into the only available, affordable property she can find. She takes up shoemaking in response to the organic demand of her community, whose members show up at her doorstep expecting this service daily. The novel sustains the same cool, free-indirect prose across both its social realist beginning and the more fantastical plot that follows, making the latter feel wholly natural. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
