Guess the Drink by Emoji
Forty drinks written in emoji, in three tiers of difficulty. Answers are all listed further down, so nothing is hidden behind a click. Copy any puzzle string and send it to someone who thinks they know their way around a bar.
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How to play
Each line is one drink. Read the glass first, then the garnish – the glass tells you the family
and the garnish tells you which member. Answers are in the second half of the page.
Easy: things in glasses
- 🍺🍺
- 🍻
- 🍷
- 🍾🥂
- ☕
- 🍵
- 🥛
- 🧋
- 🧃
- 🍶
- 🥤
- 🍹
Classics: you have ordered all of these
- 🍸🫒
- 🍸🧂🫒
- 🍸☕
- 🥃🍊🍒
- 🥃🍋🥚
- 🥃🍒
- 🥃☕
- 🍹🍍🥥
- 🍹🍍🍊
- 🍹🍓
- 🥂🍋
- 🍹🥥🧊
- 🍷🍊🍎
- 🥃🧊🧊
- 🍺🍋
- 🍵🧊🍋
Hard: the speakeasy shelf
Mostly Prohibition-era, with two later ones to keep you honest.
- 🍸🍯🍋
- 🍸🍋🍒
- 🍸🍋🍊
- 🥃🍋🍊🍒
- 🍹🍍🍒
- ☕🥃🍯
- 🍸🍎🍋
- 🍸🍓🥚
- 🍹🍋🍊🍒
- 🍸🍋🥚
- 🥃🍊
- 🍾🫐
Answers
Easy
- Beer
- Cheers, or a round
- Red wine
- Champagne toast
- Coffee
- Green tea
- Milk
- Bubble tea, or boba
- Juice box
- Sake
- Soda, or any fountain drink
- A tropical drink – see tropical drink emoji
Classics
- Dry Martini – recipe
- Dirty Martini, the salt shaker standing in for olive brine
- Espresso Martini
- Old Fashioned – recipe
- Whiskey Sour, the egg for the foam
- Manhattan
- Irish Coffee
- Pina Colada
- Mai Tai
- Strawberry Daiquiri
- French 75
- Painkiller
- Sangria
- Whiskey on the rocks – short serves
- Shandy
- Iced tea
Hard
- Bee’s Knees – gin, honey, lemon
- Scofflaw – rye, dry vermouth, lemon, grenadine. Named after the word Boston coined for people who
drank in defiance of the law, and picked up almost immediately by a Paris bar - Sidecar – cognac, orange liqueur, lemon
- Ward Eight – the Boston rye sour
- Mary Pickford – rum, pineapple, grenadine, maraschino, made in Havana while the United States was
dry - Hot Toddy
- Jack Rose – applejack, lemon, grenadine
- Clover Club – gin, raspberry, lemon, egg white
- Zombie
- Gin Fizz
- Boulevardier – bourbon, Campari, sweet vermouth
- Kir Royale – the one that is not Prohibition-era at all
A note on the strings
Every character used here is a real Unicode codepoint, so the puzzles survive being pasted into
any modern app. What does not survive is the artwork: the same string looks different on Apple,
Google and Samsung keyboards, and a garnish that reads as a cherry on one phone can read as a
generic red fruit on another. If a puzzle stumps somebody, that may be why. For what the glasses
signal outside a quiz, see drink emoji meanings.