Emoji Bible Quiz
Every row of emojis hides a story from the Bible: a flood, a fish, a boy with a sling, a very short man up a tree. Name the story straight from the emojis for 2 points, or take a hint and play for 1. There are 54 puzzles in the bank and you get 10 at random, so your next round won’t look like this one.
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Common Questions About the Emoji Bible Quiz
How does an emoji Bible quiz work?
Each puzzle is a short row of emojis that stands for one story from the Bible. A rain cloud, a boat, a giraffe, a zebra and a rainbow is about as friendly as they come. A bearded man, a horse, a stop sign and an angel with a sword is a lot harder. You pick the story from four choices. If you can name it straight from the emojis, you earn two points. If you are stuck, tap for a hint, a one-line clue drawn from the story itself, and a right answer is then worth one point. After every guess the page shows the answer, a short note on what actually happens in the story, and the chapter and verse where you can read it for yourself. A round is ten puzzles drawn at random from a bank of fifty-four, so twenty points is a perfect score and no two rounds are quite the same.
Which Bible stories are hardest to guess from emojis?
The famous stories are not always the easy ones. Noah and Jonah tend to fall at first glance, but plenty of well-known moments are surprisingly hard to squeeze into little pictures. Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night comes down to a moon, a bearded man, a question mark and a baby, and most players reach for the hint. Lot’s wife, Balaam’s talking donkey and the ten virgins with their lamps catch people out too, because the emojis could fit more than one story. The parables are their own challenge. The lost sheep, the prodigal son and the good Samaritan all sit close together in Luke, and their emoji rows can look alike at a glance: a journey, someone lost, someone found. That is part of the fun. Telling similar stories apart makes you notice what really happens in each one.
Did Adam and Eve really eat an apple, and was Jonah swallowed by a whale?
Two of the most famous pictures in the Bible are not quite what the text says, and the quiz leans on both on purpose. Genesis 3 never names an apple. It only speaks of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden. The apple seems to have come later, through art and tradition, and it stuck so well that the emoji practically picks itself. Jonah is similar. The book of Jonah says a great fish was prepared to swallow him. In the King James Version, the word whale only enters Jonah’s story when Jesus refers back to it in Matthew 12:40. None of that changes what either story is about. It is a good reminder, though, that the version we carry around in our heads is worth checking against the page now and then.
Can I use this emoji Bible game with a youth group or class?
It works well on one big screen. Put the page up on a TV or projector, split the room into teams, and let each team call out its answer before anyone taps. Emoji puzzles tend to get everyone talking at once, which is the point. Kids who would never raise a hand for an ordinary Bible question will happily argue over whether a boat and a snake mean Jonah or Paul. For a longer session, have each team invent its own emoji row for a story that is not in the game and challenge the others to guess it. The game is free, with no sign-up and no download, and the page does not save anything once you close it, so keep score on paper if you want a winner across several rounds. Every new round draws a fresh ten puzzles from the bank.
How many Bible stories can you name from emojis alone?
That is the whole challenge above. Ten emoji rows, drawn from fifty-four stories that run from the first days of Genesis to Paul washing up on an island in the book of Acts. Some you will know at a glance. Some will stay stubborn until you take the hint, and one or two might send you off to read the story again. A perfect round is twenty points, which means naming all ten with no hints at all, and it is harder than it sounds. Whatever you score, the end of the round lists every story you just played, so you know where to look next. Then press play again for a new set of ten. Play the emoji Bible quiz above and see how many you can name without a single hint.