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You and the CPU take turns stacking one emoji at a time on the base. If the emoji you place (or anything already stacked) falls off the base, whoever placed last loses. An emoji counts as fallen once its center drops below the red marks beside the base. After each drop, the next turn starts once the stack stops wobbling. If 40 emoji are stacked without a collapse, it's a draw.

Your opponent picks it for you. On your turn to give, you are dealt 3 cards (random emoji from about 1,900), and you hand over the one you think will be hardest to place. Once per match you can play your wild card to pick any emoji at all instead of one from your hand. The CPU on Hard uses its wild card too.

On a phone or tablet, keep your finger on the screen and slide it left or right to move the emoji; lift your finger to drop it (lift it outside the screen to cancel). Twist with two fingers to rotate. The rotate buttons (⟲ ⟳) turn it 15° at a time and keep turning while held. On a computer, the emoji follows your mouse; click to drop and use the wheel to rotate. With a keyboard, use ← → to move, ↑ ↓ (or Z X) to rotate, and Space or Enter to drop.

Your device draws the emoji, and that exact shape is used for collisions (the same emoji looks a little different on iPhone and Android). Weight is proportional to the area of the picture. Round emoji roll and long ones tip over easily, so choosing what to hand over is what wins the game.

Easy tries only 2 placements and its hand often slips; it hands you emoji that are easy to place. Normal tries 12 placements and hands you slightly nasty emoji. Hard tries 40 placements, picks one that holds up even if it slips a little, hands you emoji that are hard to place, and uses its wild card. At every level the CPU only simulates its own drops with physics; it never interferes with your turn.

No. The game is just about winning or losing (clearing a level or not); time and score aren't measured. The physics also runs slightly differently on each device, so the server can't verify results, which is another reason there's no leaderboard. Each level you beat today's CPU on gets a ✓ saved in this browser. Random practice deals you different cards every time.

Use the Sound button in the toolbar (it starts on). The setting is saved in this browser and shared with the other games on this site that use sound. On iPhone and iPad (Safari 17 or later), sound plays even in silent mode, so use the Sound button to turn it off if you'd rather keep quiet.