LG / game / GUESS THE EMOJI – KIDS, FUN, GAME, QUIZ
REVIEW
Guess the Emoji turns LG webOS into a couch-friendly word quiz.
HexaBrain's emoji-decoding puzzle is a lightweight party-quiz format ported to the big screen, with Magic Remote pointing standing in for a touchscreen tap.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Guess the Emoji – Kids, Fun, Game, Quiz
HEXABRAIN
OUR SCORE
6.7
LG
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Guess the Emoji on LG webOS is a port of the well-worn mobile party-quiz format — a row of emoji standing in for a word, a phrase, a movie title — into the living room. HexaBrain’s build leans on the obvious advantages of the platform: the puzzle card is large and readable, the Magic Remote’s pointer maps neatly onto the letter-tile mechanic, and the whole thing runs in the kind of low-friction full-screen loop that suits a TV.
The catch is that the genre’s mobile leaders have years of content updates behind them and HexaBrain’s TV build does not. Solo replay value runs out faster than the format wants it to. For a household with young kids or a casual family night, that is fine. For an adult player working through it alone, the puzzle bank thins out by the second sitting.
Install for the kids track and the occasional family round. The webOS hardware does its part; the missing piece is a couple of thousand more puzzles and a pass-the-remote score mode, neither of which is on offer here.
Guess the Emoji on webOS is a four-minute party diversion stretched onto a sixty-inch panel.
FEATURES
Guess the Emoji is a quiz game from HexaBrain in which the player decodes strings of emoji into the word, phrase, movie title, or idiom they represent. The webOS build presents one puzzle at a time on a single full-screen card — emoji row at the top, a row of letter tiles below, and a scrambled letter bank the player picks from to spell the answer.
Input on LG webOS is Magic Remote pointing: hover a letter, click to place it, click a placed letter to return it to the bank. There is a hint button that reveals a letter for an in-game coin, and a skip option for the harder puzzles. Categories include emoji-for-words, emoji-for-phrases, emoji-for-movies, and a kids-friendly track with simpler vocabulary.
Free with no advertised in-app purchases on the LG store listing, no account required, and progress persists locally between sessions.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The format translates better to a TV than most mobile-first puzzle games. The puzzle is large, readable from across the room, and the Magic Remote's hover-and-click maps cleanly to the letter-tile mechanic — closer to a touchscreen tap than directional-pad navigation would be. For a couch session with kids or a low-stakes party round, the loop works.
The kids track is genuinely calibrated for younger players — vocabulary stays at picture-book level, emoji choices stay literal rather than punny. That is the audience the title most credibly serves.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The puzzle bank is small relative to the mobile genre leader (the iOS Guess The Emoji from Random Logic Games has thousands of levels across years of content updates); HexaBrain's webOS build feels closer to a couple of hundred. Repeat play within a single sitting hits recycled puzzles fast.
No multiplayer or pass-the-remote turn mode is an obvious miss for a TV port of a party-quiz format — the game would benefit from a hot-seat scoring round more than it would from another solo category.
CONCLUSION
Worth the install for LG TV households with young kids, or as a fifteen-minute filler for a family night. Solo adult players will exhaust the puzzle bank faster than they would on the mobile equivalents and should reach for those instead. Watch for whether HexaBrain ships content updates — the format lives or dies on puzzle volume.