Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

TikTok has quietly added a secret emoji game which you can access in your DMs. The goal of the sport is easy: use your finger to bounce as high as you possibly can by hopping across alligators. Avoid the skeleton alligators, and watch out — broken alligators disappear after only one landing, so you could quickly bounce to the one above.

In case you guide your jump to a floating emoji, you’ll get a speed boost that helps you climb faster. The identical happens whenever you land on an alligator with a propeller on it. In case you fail to land on an alligator or land on a skeleton, it’s game over. The thing of the sport is to bounce higher than your opponent. As you play, you’ll see each your rating and your opponent’s high rating displayed within the top-right corner.

TikTok told TechCrunch on Tuesday that the sport is accessible globally and will be accessed in each one-on-one DMs and in group chats.

You’ll be able to access the sport by sending an emoji in any chat after which clicking on it to enter the sport. The emoji you click on is identical one that may float across the screen to offer you a lift. You should utilize any emoji you wish, but you possibly can only access the sport by sending a single emoji at a time.

TikTok says it launched this Easter egg to make messaging more fun and so as to add a playful element of competition to DMs on the platform.

With this launch, TikTok is taking a page out of Instagram’s book. Instagram introduced its own hidden emoji DM game two years ago, and TikTok’s version follows the same concept. Instagram’s version has players using their finger to maneuver a paddle to maintain an emoji bouncing, with the sport ending once the emoji falls.

TikTok isn’t the one social media platform experimenting with DM games. Meta confirmed to TechCrunch in January that Threads is exploring games in chats. The corporate is internally prototyping a basketball game that appears to let users virtually shoot hoops by swiping their finger.