The puzzle presents solvers with equal-length strings of emoji which each clue a Beyoncé music video (or music video featuring Beyoncé).
This is clued by the title and flavortext, and repetition of the bee emoji which represents Beyoncé (Bey/Queen Bey).
Once solvers get to the “aha moment” of realizing each emoji string is a music video, they may find that the emoji represent people, things, or scenes in the video, but each string has a number of bee emoji that don’t particularly relate to the number of times Beyoncé appears in the video.
Indexing the number of bee emoji into the title of the music video gives one letter for each string. These letters, ordered as the emoji strings appear, spell the answer JAZZ HANDS.
Emoji string | Music video | # of bee emoji | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Déjà Vu | 3 | J |
2 | Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) | 8 | A |
3 | Crazy In Love | 4 | Z |
4 | Irreemplazable | 10 | Z |
5 | Apeshit | 5 | H |
6 | Formation | 5 | A |
7 | Run the World (Girls) | 3 | N |
8 | Hold Up | 4 | D |
9 | Sorry | 1 | S |