Tech Desk 
Apr 01, 2026
TikTok has silently launched a secret emoji game, available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DMs and in group chats.
The company said that the game is simple: use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping across alligators. TikTok users need to avoid the skeleton alligators, and be careful — broken alligators disappear after just one landing, so you need to quickly bounce to the one above.
How to play secret emoji game on TikTok?
You can easily play the game by sending an emoji in any of the chat and then clicking on it to enter the game. The emoji you click on is the same one that will float across the screen to give you a boost.
You can use any emoji you want, but you can only access the game by sending a single emoji at a time. TikTok says it launched this Easter egg to make messaging more fun and 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 a similar concept.
It is important to note that TikTok isn’t the only social media platform experimenting with DM games. Meta confirmed that Threads is exploring games in chats. The company is internally prototyping a basketball game that appears to let users virtually shoot hoops by swiping their finger.
