Animal Emoji Riddles: 30 Guess-the-Animal Emoji Puzzles on Riddlepedia
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Animal Emoji Riddles: 30 Guess-the-Animal Emoji Puzzles

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Animal emoji riddles are picture puzzles where two little pictures add up to one animal’s name. A dragon and a fly make a dragonfly, and a lion splashing in the waves makes a sea lion. Some emojis stand for the thing they show, and some stand for a word that sounds the same, so you’ll need to say the pictures out loud.

There are 30 animal emoji riddles here, in three rounds. The easy round is two pictures that read straight across, the medium round has animals that are a little less famous, and the tricky round has sound-alike puns and emoji math, where you count the legs (or humps) of the animals you see. All the emojis show up on most phones and computers, and every riddle has a hint.

Easy Animal Emoji Riddles

Guess the animal: 🐉 + 🪰

Hint
It’s an insect with four see-through wings that zips over ponds.
Answer
A dragonfly

Guess the animal: 🔥 + 🪰

Hint
It’s a beetle whose tail glows on summer nights.
Answer
A firefly

Guess the animal: 🥇 + 🐟

Hint
The medal stands for the color of the fish. Lots of people keep one in a bowl.
Answer
A goldfish

Guess the animal: 🗡️ + 🐟

Hint
It’s a big, fast ocean fish with a long, flat, pointy bill.
Answer
A swordfish

Guess the animal: 🌊 + 🦁

Hint
It barks loudly and can walk on land using its four flippers.
Answer
A sea lion

Guess the animal: 🐂 + 🐸

Hint
It’s a big green pond animal with a deep, booming call.
Answer
A bullfrog

Guess the animal: 🐑 + 🐕

Hint
It’s a farm helper that rounds up the flock.
Answer
A sheepdog

Guess the animal: ❄️ + 🦉

Hint
It’s a big white bird of the Arctic, and unlike most of its cousins, it often hunts in the daytime.
Answer
A snowy owl

Guess the animal: 🌍 + 🪱

Hint
The planet stands for the soil you dig in. You’ll find this animal after a rain.
Answer
An earthworm

Emoji math: count the legs. 🐄 + 🐄 + 🐔 = ?

Hint
A cow has 4 legs and a hen has 2.
Answer
10 legs. 4 + 4 + 2 = 10.

Medium Animal Emoji Riddles

Guess the animal: 🐎 + 🪰

Hint
It’s a big biting fly that buzzes around farm animals in summer.
Answer
A horsefly

Guess the animal: 🔨 + 🦈

Hint
Its head is wide and flat, with an eye on each end.
Answer
A hammerhead shark

Guess the animal: 🦁 + 🐟

Hint
It’s a striped reef fish with long, spiky fins, like a mane.
Answer
A lionfish

Guess the animal: 🕷️ + 🐒

Hint
It has very long arms and legs and a tail it can grab branches with.
Answer
A spider monkey

Guess the animal: 🪵 + 🐦

Hint
It’s a bird that drums holes in tree trunks with its beak.
Answer
A woodpecker

Guess the animal: 👑 + 🦀

Hint
It’s a huge crab with long, spiky legs that lives in cold seas.
Answer
A king crab

Guess the animal: 📦 + 🐢

Hint
It can close its shell up tight, like shutting a lid.
Answer
A box turtle

Guess the animal: 🐘 + 🦭

Hint
The males have a big, floppy nose like a short trunk.
Answer
An elephant seal

Emoji math: count the legs. 🕷️ + 🐝 = ?

Hint
Spiders have more legs than insects do.
Answer
14 legs. A spider has 8 legs and a bee has 6.

Emoji math: count the humps. 🐫 + 🐪 = ?

Hint
Look closely: the two camels aren’t the same kind.
Answer
3 humps. The Bactrian camel has 2 humps and the dromedary has 1.

Tricky Animal Emoji Riddles

Guess the animal: 2️⃣ + 🥫

Hint
Say the pictures out loud. It’s a bird with a giant, colorful beak.
Answer
A toucan. “Two can.”

Guess the animal: 8️⃣ + 🐱

Hint
“Octo” means eight, and “puss” is an old name for a cat.
Answer
An octopus. “Octo” means eight, plus “puss” (a cat).

Guess the animal: 🐈 + 🏛️

Hint
Look at the tall columns on the building. One day this animal turns into a butterfly.
Answer
A caterpillar. Cat + pillar.

Guess the animal: 🐜 + 😋

Hint
The face is enjoying a meal. Put the bug in front of a word for someone who eats.
Answer
An anteater

Guess the animal: 👨‍🦲 + 🦅

Hint
It’s the national bird of the United States, with a white head.
Answer
A bald eagle

Guess the animal: 🐢 + 🕊️

Hint
It’s a bird, not a reptile, and it’s in a famous Christmas song about twelve days.
Answer
A turtledove

Guess the animal: 🏗️

Hint
The machine and a tall wading bird with long legs share the same name.
Answer
A crane

Emoji math: count the legs. 🐍 + 🐟 + 🐬 = ?

Hint
Picture each animal moving. How does it get around?
Answer
0 legs. Snakes slither, and fish and dolphins swim with fins.

Emoji math: 🐙 arms × 🐑 legs = ?

Hint
An octopus has 8 arms.
Answer
  1. 8 × 4 = 32.

Emoji math: count the legs. 🦆 + 🦒 + 🐜 = ?

Hint
Bird, mammal, insect: 2, 4 and 6.
Answer
12 legs. 2 + 4 + 6 = 12.

How to Play Animal Emoji Riddles

  • Zoo relay: split into two teams and read one riddle to each team in turn. A right answer lets the team “adopt” that animal for their pretend zoo. The bigger zoo wins.
  • Text a friend: send one riddle at a time to a family group chat. The first right reply gets to send the next one.
  • Leg count challenge: after the emoji math, each kid makes up a leg-counting puzzle with three animal emojis for a partner. Bonus points for using a spider or an insect.
  • Make your own: pick an animal with a two-part name (seahorse, catfish, ladybug), find an emoji for each part, and write a hint that points to the animal without saying it.

Want more emoji fun? Try our emoji riddles, these food emoji riddles or our rebus puzzles.