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Food Emoji Riddles: 30 Guess-the-Food Emoji Puzzles

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Food emoji riddles are little picture puzzles you solve with your stomach. Each one is a short row of emojis that spells out a food. Sometimes you read the pictures as sounds (🥜 + 🧈 = peanut butter), and sometimes one emoji stands for a word that sounds a little different from what it shows, like a firecracker for “pop” or a pair of shorts for “short.”

There are 30 food emoji riddles here, in three rounds. The easy round is two simple emojis that add up to an everyday food. The medium round needs some wordplay, and the tricky round has silly food names that grown-ups know but kids may never have thought about. All the emojis show up on most phones and computers, and there’s a hint for each one if you get stuck.

Easy Food Emoji Riddles

Guess the food: 🔥 + 🐶

Hint
You eat it in a bun, often with mustard.
Answer
A hot dog

Guess the food: 🥜 + 🧈

Hint
It’s sticky, and it goes great with jelly.
Answer
Peanut butter

Guess the food: 🍊 + 🧃

Hint
Lots of people drink a glass of it at breakfast.
Answer
Orange juice

Guess the food: 🧀 + 🍔

Hint
Order it with a melted slice on top of the patty.
Answer
A cheeseburger

Guess the food: 🍎 + 🥧

Hint
It’s a classic dessert, often served warm with ice cream.
Answer
Apple pie

Guess the food: 🥚 + 🌱

Hint
It’s a shiny purple vegetable, and there’s no egg inside it.
Answer
Eggplant. An egg plus a plant.

Guess the food: 💥 + 🌽

Hint
You make it in a pot or the microwave, and you eat it at the movies.
Answer
Popcorn. The burst stands for “pop.”

Guess the food: 💧 + 🍈

Hint
It’s a big summer fruit with a green rind and a red inside.
Answer
Watermelon

Guess the food: 🧊 + 🍵

Hint
It’s a cold drink, great on a hot day, often with lemon.
Answer
Iced tea

Guess the food: 🍬 + 🌽

Hint
It’s a Halloween treat with three stripes: yellow, orange and white.
Answer
Candy corn

Medium Food Emoji Riddles

Guess the food: 🐟 + 🍟

Hint
In Britain, French fries are called by another name.
Answer
Fish and chips

Guess the food: 🍓 + 🩳 + 🍰

Hint
The middle emoji is a pair of shorts. Use just the first part of that word.
Answer
Strawberry shortcake. Strawberry + short + cake.

Guess the food: 🍦 + 🥪

Hint
It’s a frozen treat squeezed between two soft cookies.
Answer
An ice cream sandwich

Guess the food: 🍌 + ✂️ + 🍨

Hint
The scissors stand for a word that means “cut in two.”
Answer
A banana split

Guess the food: ❄️ + 🍦

Hint
It’s shaved ice in a paper cup, topped with colorful syrup.
Answer
A snow cone

Guess the food: 🐐 + 🧀

Hint
It’s soft, white and tangy, and it doesn’t come from a cow.
Answer
Goat cheese

Guess the food: 🌞 + ⬆️ + 🍳

Hint
It’s a way to cook an egg so the yellow yolk looks up at you.
Answer
Sunny-side up eggs

Guess the food: 🦀 + 🎂

Hint
It’s a seafood patty, not a dessert.
Answer
A crab cake

Guess the food: 🥩 + 🍞

Hint
The bread stands for the shape you bake it in, called a loaf.
Answer
Meatloaf

Guess the food: ♣️ + 🥪

Hint
The first emoji is a card suit. It’s a tall sandwich with layers, often held together with toothpicks.
Answer
A club sandwich

Tricky Food Emoji Riddles

Guess the food: 😈 + 🥚 + 🥚

Hint
It’s a party snack: hard-boiled egg halves filled with a yellow, creamy mix.
Answer
Deviled eggs

Guess the food: 🐜 + 🪵

Hint
It’s a snack made of celery, peanut butter and raisins in a row.
Answer
Ants on a log. The raisins are the “ants.”

Guess the food: 🐷 + 🐷 + 🛌

Hint
Little sausages tucked into rolled-up dough.
Answer
Pigs in a blanket

Guess the food: 🍩 + 🕳️

Hint
They’re the little round bites cut out of the middle of a ring.
Answer
Donut holes

Guess the food: 🍝 + 🥩 + ⚽

Hint
Read the last two emojis together as one word.
Answer
Spaghetti and meatballs. Meat + balls.

Guess the food: 🦸 + 🥪

Hint
It’s a very long sandwich, named after someone brave.
Answer
A hero sandwich

Guess the food: 🍬 + 🥔 + 🥧

Hint
The candy stands for a word that describes how it tastes. It’s a Thanksgiving dessert.
Answer
Sweet potato pie

Guess the food: 🍍 + 🙃 + 🍰

Hint
The fruit is baked at the bottom of the pan, then the cake gets flipped over.
Answer
Pineapple upside-down cake

Guess the food: 🐔 + 🍜 + 🥄

Hint
It’s a warm bowl people often eat when they have a cold.
Answer
Chicken noodle soup

Guess the food: 🔮 + 🍪

Hint
Crack it open to find a tiny paper message about your future.
Answer
A fortune cookie. The crystal ball stands for “fortune.”

How to Play Food Emoji Riddles

  • Snack-time challenge: read one riddle before each snack or meal. Whoever guesses it first gets to pick the next riddle.
  • Text relay: on a car ride or a rainy day, one player texts a food emoji riddle to the family group chat. First correct reply writes the next one.
  • Menu maker: in class, ask students to build an emoji “menu” for a pretend restaurant: one breakfast, one lunch and one dessert, each written as an emoji riddle for classmates to solve.
  • Make your own: pick a food with a two-part name, find an emoji for each part, and give a hint that points to the food without saying it.

Hungry for more? Try our emoji riddles, these rebus puzzles or our chocolate riddles.