What else are you going to do on your phone while waiting for the weekend to come around?
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To start, just locate the basketball emoji (copy and paste, if you can’t find it in your growing emoji list), send it to a friend and click it to start the game. Well, there’s a basketball game hidden in Facebook’s Messeneger app. Here’s how to play. Curiously, while testing, we found that some Facebook accounts don’t get to play the game right now (we tested multiple accounts on a single smartphone).
It’s a simple premise really. Send the emoji to your friend and tap on the emoji to load the basketball game, says a report from The Next Web.
It appeared as America got excited for March Madness, an annual basketball competition, but it’s available in the United Kingdom too. “Whoever scores the highest will get a message displaying “(Friend) set the new high score of X playing basketball”.
It gets harder though! Things start off nice and easy, but as your score increases you’ll notice that the hoop starts to move. I topped out at 21 – let us know what your best effort is.
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Shoot Some Hoops: Want to see what’s hiding behind the basketball emoji in Messenger?
