by Jeffrey Atkinson
Answer: JAZZ HANDS
Problem: New Year’s Town/​Holi Town

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 stringMusic video# of bee emojiLetter
1jà Vu3J
2Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)8A
3Crazy In Love4Z
4Irreemplazable10Z
5Apeshit5H
6Formation5A
7Run the World (Girls)3N
8Hold Up4D
9Sorry1S