In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

Ballet dancers, bigfoot hunters, and trombone players, today is a special World Emoji Day for you! The Unicode Consortium has announced the newest set of emojis to be released, whittled down from the submissions late last year. Without further ado, here’s the list:

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently available to Apple News+ subscribers and can be found in the Puzzles section of the Apple News app, according to Apple.

Today is World Emoji Day, and Emojipedia's dedicated Emojitracker has a real-time list of the emoji that are most popular in the United

The Emoji Game is now available on all iPhones running the latest software (iOS 18.4), as well as iPads and Macs. However, not everybody can play it. In addition to having an up-to-date device, you also need to be a paying subscriber to Apple News+, which costs $13/month, in order to play it. (Apple does offer a one-month free trial.)