I’m still on reduced writing power this week, so here’s a quiz for you. It’s three weeks since the last instalment of my three-weekly series in which I described my journey taking pictures of London boroughs. So that’s the theme for this week: all 33 districts I visited are represented below by emoji. Your task is to work out which is which.
- 🌉
- 🆕💪
- 🐔🌾🌾🌾🌾
- 🐶💬➕🗡️➕💪
- 🐶🐶🪫
- 🪄🪄🐶💬
- 🚕
- 🗼🤴🇩🇰💀🤴🇩🇰💀
- 🧗⁉️🤎➕🩶
- 💚🧙♀️
- 🧼💯
- ↗️
- 🧹⁉️⛴️↙️⁉️💊⁉️
- 🤴🇫🇷✖️1️⃣6️⃣💪
- ⬅️⛪️
- 📹⛺️
- 🔨🔨🦄🧚🐉➕🍺💪
- 🤣💬💍🏳️🌈
- 😢⁉️🔛
- 🐑💬🥅
- 🅱️❌⛴️↙️⁉️💊⁉️
- 🅱️🏠💷⁉️
- 🐑👶🌍
- ⬇️📤📈📆✏️🏢
- 🤑🌍🇫🇷🆙🔛🏞️
- 🤴🤴💯🆙🔛🏞️
- 🧐🏴⁉️🎤🎵💯➕🐚🌊
- 👂👂🔗💯
- 🌊🇫🇷💯
- 💬💬💬💬🏴
- 🧑⚕️🩺🥼🩹
- 🐺💪🌲🌳🌴🌳🌲
- 🏙️📴⬆️✖️3️⃣2️⃣
A few hints:
- This is not intended as a test of how well you remember the names of the different boroughs; feel free to look at a list (there’s one on this site, as long as you don’t mind staring at me in multiple).
- Multiple emoji may represent a single part of the word, when read together. As a simple example, “🚗🚗🚗” may represent “cars”, or, as a more complicated one, “🐶👶” may represent “puppy” (baby dog—in such cases, “adjectives” normally come after “nouns”).
- The representations may be based on the sound of the word, or on how the word is written.
- Hearts are used to represent the colours of the heart, in general (because the heart shape is available in the most different colours).1
- An emoji representing a verb could represent any conjugation of that verb—so “🏃” could represent “run”, “runs”, “running” or “ran” (or, indeed, “runner”).
- The emoji “⁉️” indicates that whatever precedes it is a particualrly dodgy clue.
I’ll post the answers next week, along with (hopefully) some more substantial writing. Enjoy!
Update 26/07/2026: answers are now online.
- This came about when Unicode, who decide which are the official emoji, decided not to add any more flag emoji, and to encourage the use of combinations of hearts to represent different pride flags instead. ↩︎
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