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TikTok's quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your

DMs. Now, the goal of the game is simple. Use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping

across alligators. Easy as that. Avoid the skeleton alligators and be careful, broken alligators

disappear after just one landing, so you need to quickly bounce to the one

above. If you guide your jump to a floating emoji, you'll get a speed boost that helps you

climb faster. Now, the same happens when you land on an alligator with a propeller on it.

If you fail to land on an alligator or land on a skeleton, it's game over for you.

The object of the game is to bounce higher than your opponent.

As you play, you'll see both your score and your opponent's high score displayed in the top right corner.

Now, TikTok told TechRunch on Tuesday that the game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DMs and in group chats.

You can access the game by sending an emoji in any chat and then clicking on it to enter

the game. The emoji you click on is the same one that'll float across the screen to give you a boost.

And 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, you see, introduced its own hidden emoji DM game two years ago,

and TikTok's version follows a similar

concept. Instagram's version has players using their finger to move a paddle to keep an

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