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.

T oday is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.”

On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂,

Emojis can add tone and personality to text-based messages, helping to clarify the intended meaning behind words.

Which emoji are the most popular in your corner of the world? You can now find out in real time with the new and improved EmojiTracker.

If you're not familiar with the emoji picker, it's invoked by pressing the Windows key with the full stop (period) key, and it consists of a compact panel full of emojis that you can select from. These can then be directly inserted into your active app (such as Word, for example, if you want to add some emojis in a document you're working on).

The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and Fight Cloud

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.