The puzzle 📞🔢 (canonically read as “phone number”) consisted of a conversation between one person using the Latin alphabet and one person communicating entirely in emoji. Using context clues, each emoji could be mapped to a sound (often but not always monosyllabic) that when combined could be used to form words:
| Emoji Sequence | Sounds | Resulting Phrase |
|---|---|---|
| 🖥️👅8️⃣👤 | COMP LICK EIGHT HEAD | complicated |
| 🚣🧑✅ 📅 | ROW MAN TICK DATE | romantic date |
| 🧓 🥫💴 | GRAN CAN YEN | Grand Canyon |
| 🐝🐑🍵 | BEE EWE TEA | beauty |
| 🪓📩🦷 👊 | AX SEND DENTAL HIT | accidental hit |
| ⚡🦵 | ELECTRIC SHIN | electrician |
| 😭✅📳 👊 | CRY TICK CALL HIT | critical hit |
| 🥚🪦8️⃣👤 🫏🧂 | EGG GRAVE EIGHT ED ASS SALT | aggrivated assault |
| 🔋⛑️ | POWER AID | Powerade |
| 🐊🫣 👞👞 | ALLIGATOR HIDE SHOES | (sic) |
| 🎾🌊 | TENNIS SEA | Tennessee |
| 🎥 😭✅ | MOVIE CRY TICK | movie critic |
| 📻👤 🎶❓ | RADIO HEAD SONG ? | Radiohead song |
| 🔢1️⃣ 🪭 | NUMBER ONE FAN | (sic) |
Finally, in the last segment, the six emoji sequences are composed of mostly known emoji, with one unknown emoji that can be inferred from context (in bold):
| Emoji Sequence | Sounds | Resulting Phrase |
|---|---|---|
| 📻 🐜🎾 | RADIO ANT TENNIS | radio antennas |
| 🎥 🍵👨💼 | MOVIE TEA SIR | movie teaser |
| 🏳️⚧️📩🦷 🔢🔢 | TRANS SEND DENTAL NUMBERS | transcendental numbers |
| 🌊 🐑 ⌛ 🐊 | SEA EWE LATER ALLIGATOR | see you later, alligator |
| 🪦 😈👅8️⃣🦵🦵 | GRAVE IMP LICK EIGHT SHINS | grave implications |
| 🫣🚣⚡ 🔋 🪴 | HIDE ROW ELECTRIC POWER PLANT | hydroelectric power plant |
Reading these new emoji sequences in order gives ANT SIR TRANS LATER IMP PLANT, or ANSWER: TRANSLATOR IMPLANT