🪐 Planets

The solar system, one cipher at a time. Each emoji stands for a letter, so the planet has to be spelled out rather than spotted.

Hint: Closest planet to the sun

🚟🛹🥔🍐🚐🥔🎷
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MERCURY
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Hint: Hottest planet

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VENUS
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Hint: Our home planet

🛴🍄🤿🚙🛶
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EARTH
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Hint: The red planet

👾🚦🦑📤
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MARS
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Hint: The largest planet

🥝🧶🎱🚝🐶💴🦂
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JUPITER
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Hint: The planet with bright rings

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SATURN
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Hint: The planet tipped on its side

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URANUS
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Hint: The farthest planet from the sun

🎮🚨🎷🍑💵🎮🚨
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NEPTUNE
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Hint: It orbits our own planet

🦉🍉🐼 🐊💵💵🚑
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THE MOON
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Hint: The star at the centre

🥕🌂🥒 🚘🚉📓
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THE SUN
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Hint: Ice and dust with a long tail

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COMET
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Hint: Rock in the belt past Mars

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ASTEROID
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About this pack

This pack works outward from Mercury through the planets everyone learns at school, with hints that give each one's defining fact — closest to the sun, the hottest, the red one, the largest. It doubles as a quick astronomy refresher, and because planet names are short and distinctive, it is one of the faster packs to clear.

Solving tips

• Planet names are four to seven letters. The cipher length alone often identifies the answer.
• The hint is a superlative — hottest, largest, closest. If you know the fact, you know the word.
• Look for doubled letters: several planet names carry them, and they are the quickest foothold.

Common questions

Are the answers shown?

Yes, underneath each puzzle.

Is Pluto included?

The pack sticks to the eight planets, so Pluto sits this one out — though the hints will not hold it against you.