Golfing Emoticons

Question

Introduction

Your challenge today (inspired by this challenge) is to write a number of snippets, functions or full programs each that output various ascii emoticons, without reusing characters.

Challenge

• The list of valid ascii emoticons for this challenge is both here and in the code block at the bottom of this post.

• Each snippet should be on a separate line in your submission.

• You may only use one language for all the snippets.

• Each snippet must either output to stdout or return a string containing the emoticon and an optional trailing new line, and nothing else.

• You may not use any character more than once across all snippets, however using a character multiple times in a single snippet is fine.

• You may not use any character not in your language's codepage (or ascii, if your language doesn't use a custom codepage) in any of the snippets. Put another way, you are restricted to only characters that can be encoded in one byte.

• No snippet can take any input.

• Standard loopholes are disallowed.

• Your score is the number of unique snippets that each print a different ascii emoticon in the text file above.

• Highest score wins!

Good luck!

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Allowed emoticons, space separated:

:-) :) :-] :] :-3 :3 :-> :> 8-) 8) :-} :} :o) :c) :^) =] =) :-D :D 8-D 8D x-D xD X-D XD =D =3 B^D :-)) :-( :( :-c :c :-< :< :-[ :[ :-|| >:[ :{ :@ >:( :'-( :'( :'-) :') D-': D:< D: D8 D; D= DX :-O :O :-o :o :-0 8-0 >:O :-* :* ;-) ;) *-) *) ;-] ;] ;^) :-, ;D :-P :P X-P XP x-p xp :-p :p :-b :b d: =p >:P :-/ :/ :-. >:\ >:/ :\ =/ =\ :L =L :S :-| :| :$ :-X :X :-# :# :-& :& O:-) O:) 0:-3 0:3 0:-) 0:) 0;^) >:-) >:) }:-) }:) 3:-) 3:) >;) |;-) |-O :-J #-) %-) %) :-###.. :###.. <:-| ',:-| ',:-l <_< >_>

EDIT: Apologies, there was a Unicode character in one of the emoticons which I missed. I have since deleted the emoticon containing it. I hope it won't cause too much inconvenience.

Answer 1

Lenguage, 131

I have put all the emoticons I am representing in the format <emoticon> <byte> <length> where the program is <byte> repeated <length> times.

:-) 0 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
:) 1 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
:-] 2 736490387500841447075516267663006608725303862349670620478812283647578112884440609487323312712386965678607264902605611675427012612
:] 3 264202969342699153645046819327998571303367330111090974890246487724490982787908355751940
:-3 4 8657402899421565866640894175739857184468743778771208393372298092586390046095597770136092676
:3 5 3105690979328168701182830269522101416768856653828
:-> 6 74366524642622405428665075721999126422007787328051598231869446920043450605361049824610086990930509828
:> 7 26677682375393393246302105048632582268435010638972146679812
8-) 8 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
8) 9 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
:-} a 58350780111110182577346156792191842346790220983533887814420020926317170260174910391653244380390906064837889652367278401208674211826539380018313418995597836292
:} b 20932315791834567081523240053201294833948611487434768542347530871005539691107893137313828947907611434178521119850500
:o) c 3239118979209708736174752985014882031111216334552277195105326435158161594234375948611157455571250214219021418006029673058983092521806556299268
:c) d 47135384800053852612833041130432422958419430281388881777898152870448562232695635591679564906662772946483627525782544884262590480388
:^) e 1438457788087580951319367710279309782666608590130275933163395778517107001730213488515614614316939287805297916050613997699858436
=] f 264202969342699153645046819327998571303367330111090974890246487724490982787908355751940
=) 10 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
:-D 11 19494738235915607848691977610067738996770809401324758166895184293407870315491767045222586644150487567302660
:D 12 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
8-D 13 19494738235915607848691977610067738996770809401324758166895184293407870315491767045222586644150487567302660
8D 14 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
x-D 15 19494738235915607848691977610067738996770809401324758166895184293407870315491767045222586644150487567302660
xD 16 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
X-D 17 19494738235915607848691977610067738996770809401324758166895184293407870315491767045222586644150487567302660
XD 18 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
=D 19 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
=3 1a 3105690979328168701182830269522101416768856653828
B^D 1b 3477977520889650736889014052879324099230182173920756338825997078602142158679966714563481466490641782098496260504558444186939511707432172833580792152068
:-)) 1c 5487280990934680753018828240506400232950626778227616999140473333355621344480221047070135810437858502018906538135322099716
:-( 1d 1007854344721600164966761853515619549954862308079750322896556241040396276639727620
:( 1e 361550014853497117429835520396253724676
:-c 1f 193066536141020580302164136470251204437686055691792055134797767284510716823978799133444882487675968730852822850628645467043138793111556
:c 20 69259223195372526933127153405918857475749925384641832521628775278048964191953448010235510788
:-< 21 1161976947540975084822891808156236350343871677000806222372960108125678915708766403509532609233289220
:< 22 416838787115521769473470391384884097944297041233939791876
:-[ 23 11507662304700647610554941682234478261332872849213603444981441931993408013819384523239426761131046338728238514103212682428547076
:[ 24 4128171395979674275703856551999977676615114532985796482660101370695171606061068058628
:-|| 25 4490503514653154593994888171790391155410203882196166795024427350741089979748728649713594708726872557302769860059030544234798515347871831399522962560307902130717984058775353233427641373262315637622954685896613847112512731353207673251960307641577181784460210162728903376900
>:[ 26 6326404256268962375341314423857191467014094403422416400818262089647958639442872076631144582027712607626673470721042183428656778636530024452
:{ 27 327067434247415110648800625831270231780447054491168258474180169859461557673560830270528577311056428659039392497668
:@ 28 1707371672025177167763334723112485265179840680894217387507716
>:( 29 554073785562980215465017227247350859805999403077134660534580217077888830965463104478137810948
:'-( 2a 10717345685419298345739898907239062955989543426288201658648697659470455871802103594384430744225253295339799090003181572
:'( 2b 3844659212957764301173255361616590690802154974454843970302450614408994357252
:'-) 2c 85738765483354386765919191257912503647916347410305613269189581275763646974416828755075445953802026362718392720025452548
:') 2d 30757273703662114409386042892932725526417239795638751762419604915271954857988
D-': 2e 193066536141020580302164136470251204437686055691792055134797767284510716823978805646550931167703616753827688239442675846684408073420804
D:< 2f 638803582514482637985938722326699671446185653303063005249221931372282624304643888007010225504954128458626105348
D: 30 6513106048680027648022974865388814030379641269280309252
D8 31 101767282010625432000358982271700219224681894832504836
D; 32 52104848389440221184183798923110512243037130154242473988
D= 33 3334710296924174155787763131079072783554376329871518334980
DX 34 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638895572237883755195510489639007043088023556
:-O 35 167458526334676536652185920425610358671588951972278350803847452800159342788092683232963125354305467608039012907876356
:O 36 60072800202465067205832115025259229538134452493771044576134610843949072388
:-o 37 13267431338842966983371788226620956799431546865783704518985364512972676097928094894007982561650102539906104005323704405147662831001648414716854276
:o 38 4759457577127833947434564846207944091008496681623630261662476839548057726257842008934364673202165121028
:-0 39 16908990037932745833282996436991908563415515192912516393305269712082793058780464394797060
8-0 3a 16908990037932745833282996436991908563415515192912516393305269712082793058780464394797060
>:O 3b 92061298437605180884439533457875826090662949768337659782530130027559915316565778290258379740810961922785987127587463814832979972
:-* 3c 64502678062182410557872758624999651197111187717104020665379599426585361704942567428
:* 3d 23139200950623815515509473305360238379012
;-) 3f 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
;) 40 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
*-) 41 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
*) 42 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
;-] 43 736490387500841447075516267663006608725303862349670620478812283647578112884440609487323312712386965678607264902605611675427012612
;] 44 264202969342699153645046819327998571303367330111090974890246487724490982787908355751940
;^) 45 1438457788087580951319367710279309782666608590130275933163395778517107001730213488515614614316939287805297916050613997699858436
:-, 46 4128171395979674275703856551999977676615116013894657322584294363301463149116324315140
;D 47 6993394368615125679158619025868739646176627428942714419231588356
:-P 48 1339668210677412293217487363404882869372711615778226806430779622401274742304741465863705002834443740864312103263010820
:P 49 480582401619720537646656920202073836305075619950168356609076886751592579076
X-P 4a 1339668210677412293217487363404882869372711615778226806430779622401274742304741465863705002834443740864312103263010820
XP 4b 480582401619720537646656920202073836305075619950168356609076886751592579076
x-p 4c 106139450710743735866974305812967654395452374926269636151882916103781408783424759152063860493200820319248832042589635241181302648013187317734834180
xp 4d 38075660617022671579476518769663552728067973452989042093299814716384461810062736071474917385617320968196
:-p 4e 106139450710743735866974305812967654395452374926269636151882916103781408783424759152063860493200820319248832042589635241181302648013187317734834180
:p 4f 38075660617022671579476518769663552728067973452989042093299814716384461810062736071474917385617320968196
:-b 50 24133317017627572537770517058781400554710756961474006891849720910563839602997349891680610310959496091356602856328580683380392349138948
:b 51 8657402899421565866640894175739857184468740673080229065203596909756120523994181001279438852
d: 52 6513106048680027648022974865388814030379641269280309252
=p 53 38075660617022671579476518769663552728067973452989042093299814716384461810062736071474917385617320968196
>:P 54 736490387500841447075516267663006608725303598146701278260241040220479322532526226322067037926487695382287897020699710518663839748
:-/ 55 2113623754741593229160374554623988570426939399114064549163158714010349132347558049349636
:/ 56 758225336750041186812214421270044291203334148
:-. 57 207303614669421359115184191040952449991117919777870383109146320515198064030126482718877866076650545526414792977894485163640282912122988497207300
>:\ 58 50611234050151699002730515390857531736112755227379331206546096717183669115542976613049156656221700861013387765768337467429254229092240195588
>:/ 59 1161976947540975084822891808156236350343871260162019107609415971405328717636882880482535666496831492
:\ 5a 33025371167837394205630852415999821412920916263886371861280810965561372848488544468996
=/ 5b 758225336750041186812214421270044291203334148
=\ 5c 33025371167837394205630852415999821412920916263886371861280810965561372848488544468996
:L 5d 117329687895439584386390849658709432691668852526896571437762911804588036
=L 5e 117329687895439584386390849658709432691668852526896571437762911804588036
:S 5f 246058189629296915275088343143461804188198717414486198583847366016815400484868
:-| 60 7293847513888772822168269599023980293348777622941735976802502615789646282521863798956655547548863258104736206545909800151084276478317422502289177374449729540
:| 61 2616539473979320885190405006650161854243576435929346067793441358875692461388486642164228618488451429272315139981316
:$ 62 88269046595092069685018437596741636
:-X 63 22475902938868452364365120473114215354165767283620319228479378773424625026990985396952005392834074880328590847857837270368260
:X 64 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638895572237883755195510489639007043088023556
:-# 65 30757273703662114409386042892932725523524850710441599209489631379406624653316
:# 66 11033630824386508710627304699592708
:-& 67 15747724136275002577605653961181555468044723563746098795258691266256191822495748
:& 68 5649218982085892459841180006191464452
O:-) 69 12356258313025317139338504734096077084011903131684407032848168143843669217661859524670204261772879079170965450478974953193258440804270084
O:) 6a 4432590284503841723720137817978806878447995224617077284276641736623110647723704835825102487556
0:-3 6b 13267431338842966983371788226620956799431542106326127399808819977829395756624898061251158122488584656200472850638276239892043942732572982687825924
0:3 6c 4759457577127833947434564846207944091008496681623630264768167818876226427440672278456466089971021774852
0:-) 6d 12356258313025317139338504734096077084011903131684407032848168143843669217661859524670204261772879079170965450478974953193258440804270084
0:) 6e 4432590284503841723720137817978806878447995224617077284276641736623110647723704835825102487556
0;^) 6f 17635441167744220073677733420687434891802896487030356826420001439272855399824227332478064740691799715855116951261424132542286393800713533574133832361923633475307938715070413175521284
>:-) 70 12356258313025317139338504734096077084011903131684407032848168143843669217661859524670204261772879079170965450478974953193258440804270084
>:) 71 4432590284503841723720137817978806878447995224617077284276641736623110647723704835825102487556
}:-) 72 12356258313025317139338504734096077084011903131684407032848168143843669217661859524670204261772879079170965450478974953193258440804270084
}:) 73 4432590284503841723720137817978806878447995224617077284276641736623110647723704835825102487556
3:-) 74 12356258313025317139338504734096077084011903131684407032848168143843669217661859524670204261772879079170965450478974953193258440804270084
3:) 75 4432590284503841723720137817978806878447995224617077284276641736623110647723704835825102487556
>;) 76 35460722276030733789761102543830455027583961796936618253966333061189046605718849544410611318788
|;-) 77 98850066504202537114708037872768616672095225053475256206345501846339744503156212400486939296710743380901705521624650127283876034609414148
|-O 78 167458526334676536652185920425610358671588951972278350803847452800159342788092683232963125354305467608039012907876356
:-J 79 5110428660115861103887509778613597371569487059700877404902571191411112755984273780302829753244185412842987454468
#-) 7a 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
%-) 7b 8062834757772801319734094828124956399638898464638002583172449928323170213117820932
%) 7c 2892400118827976939438684163170029797380
:-###.. 7d 63472263633935557923861736647125082748737134197688614613290540778155514115230551308688039019425910919616813001134916326957795000550316350938650788017945200937461476004474628334886705185455259784117223106102133685656049509651941592790179381411044907204635644645761089920625788481467539398532818999535942522921715094779750348520526769510592544772
:###.. 7e 22769557902708180570154032292525047244944529305685155554445656280981063526325050092172056931673139842713852077242156754930562874861800287931116285873505222881198972551491106610897147536510025664107567227744828946111351823651821405717420690800875100093349774665482097539926086501615885057530438321438724
<:-| 7f 11177788790790293702887103501120273414294472080999244458727694432909828650049566346015521682938653081799074785621881328429812576053504382165802153936498504910891056847057744922241561963821608276490675534388264964
',:-| 80 3894890932912594723800954614979778034738167705203999534297740046617805825001409260143039659396608186752825803082434011496463988584644917884342322616438404709718180718461226350290450773715077612074236332176364411401648796852480132979965285722014892425220
',:-l 81 13837432294794619465253598686799485174738918065898472542221995406271893447330289675331867938000869552982499765940481536206846117610229348870882129377116615066676461930445989701931533395349580971164855939208722231376387401455759135799771140
<_< 82 1658428917355370872921473528327619599928942763290765923893927134800978736248000485688913034091267225200427530628638653297304681376663135508758532
>_> 83 106139450710743735866974305812967654395452336850609019129211336627262639119872031084090434181841102412827361960232873811027499608106440672560545796

Answer 2

Haskell, 3

Here is a start at a haskell solution.

xD

"xD"

Try it online!

This one is just a normal string it uses the characters "xD

:]

':':']':[]

Try it online!

This is a desugared string using cons to construct a list of characters. It uses the emoticon :] because both : and ] are already used. In total this uses the characters ':][.

8)

drop 8(show(88,8,8,8))

Try it online!

This is where things start to get a little more interesting. Since we need a way to make a string without the characters " or ' we use the show function. show takes something showable and makes a string out of it. Here we show the tuple (88,8,8,8). This in tuple in particular ends with 8), the string we want, so we drop the first 8 chracters from the string using drop 8. The unique characters in this solution are drop 8(shw,)

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If we could find some other way to make Chars I'd probably be able to make a 4th. mempty, could be used instead of [] in answer 2, and there are ways of extracting the , from answer 3.

Answer 3

Charcoal, 10

These are just the ones I can do without using Charcoal's cat-like ability, which would allow me to add XP and |-0.

%)      ←)%
:(      ℅⁵⁸℅×±⁵±⁸
:-|     :¹↑¹
;]      ⮌];
<_<     <_‖Ｏ
=/      =↗÷χχ
8-0     Ｉ⊖⁹¬⁰Ｉ⁰
B^D     ↓ＥD^Bι
DX      §α³§α²³
xp      ↶⁴px

Try them online! I've added Ｄ⎚ commands to separate the snippets which sort of spaces them out, although it's not perfect, as the code should really be all on one line. Explanation:

←)%

The ← causes the string literal )% to be printed leftwards i.e. reversed.

℅⁵⁸℅×±⁵±⁸

The character code for : is 58. The characer code for ( is 5 times 8. (They are both negated here in case I needed a separator later.)

:¹↑¹

The : is a literal. The ¹ prints a line of length 1 horizontally, which is just a -. The ↓ causes the second line to be printed vertically, which gives the |.

⮌];

The ⮌ reverses the string literal ];.

<_‖Ｏ

The <_ is a string literal and the ‖Ｏ causes the < to be reflected to the other side of the _.

=↗÷χχ

The = is a string literal and the ↗÷χχ draws a line of length 10/10 i.e. 1 diagonally, i.e. /.

Ｉ⊖⁹¬⁰Ｉ⁰

The numbers 9-1 and 0 are cast to string and so print as digits, while the 0 in the middle is logically negated turning it into 1 which is another way of printing a -. (And I haven't even used it as a literal yet!)

↓ＥD^Bι

This takes the string literal D^B and converts it into an array, which would normally print vertically, however the print direction is overriden to vertical which results in... reversed output again!

§α³§α²³

This looks up the characters at positions 3 and 23 in the upper case alphabet (0-indexed).

↶⁴px

The ↶⁴ rotates the print direction through 180° thus causing the string literal px to be printed reversed yet again.

Answer 4

Jelly, 6

^{+1 to come?? dylnan suggested the use of ṭ to free up Ȯ, but can it be used?}

Six full programs:

;] “;]
xp ⁾xp
;D ⁽8Ạb⁹Ọ
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Answer 5

Ruby, 7

=\ Try it online! A string literal

'=\\'

>_> Try it online! Another string literal

">_>"

:p Try it online! Prints the :p symbol including the syntax (:) since it's using the p method

p:p

%) Try it online! Yet another string literal

%{%)}

XP Try it online! Here document notation (basically a multiline string literal)

<<A
XP
A

;] Try it online! Array of 2 characters (':' and ']') joined with '-'

[?;,?]]*?-

D8 Try it online! The source string of a regular expression

/D8/.source

__

Honorable mention Try it online! Executes the code in bash, returns emoticon with a trailing \n

`echo D8`

Answer 6

Python 2, 4

This answer is a pretty simple start. For the first two we just use python's two different string syntaxes. For the third we use the same method as my Haskell answer where we make a tuple get its string representation and slice it up. For the last part we use the chr function to make the characters : and ) and add them together.

xD

"xD"

=\

'=\\'

8)

`88,8,8`[8:]

:)

chr(11+11+11+11+11+1+1+1)+chr(11+11+11+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1)

Answer 7

R, 4

`!`<-`qu\157\164e`;!B^D
intToUtf8(c(88,80))
">_>"
'=]'

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A first attempt at an R solution. The need to use brackets for any function call seriously reduces the possibilities. The first snippet is a call to quote which simply returns its argument - Thanks @BLT for showing me a way to do it without parenthesis, allowing me to use intToUtf8 on the following line.

I used another trick that @Giuseppe mentioned in a comment to another question once to spell quote without o and t.

Answer 8

Fission, 3

|;-)

R"|;-)";

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XP

V!P'!X'L

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:o

/t<O/oO
U{\ {

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There are only 3 ways to output something in Fission, so here we are

Answer 9

Javascript, 5

Three trivial ones, then two interesting ones:

xD

"xD"

XP

'XP'

<_<

`<_<`

:3

[[a=>0?0:0][0]+[]][0][6]+3

No characters for string literals left for the fourth one, so we get strings by concatenating with an array. The colon comes from writing a function which uses a colon, then converting it to a string.

8)

String((function(){(8)})).slice(12,14)

This one works very similarly to the fourth one, but uses slightly different methods to do everything.

Thanks to @steve-bennett for suggesting using the String constructor and .slice as an alternative to concatenating with arrays, and indexing. Managed to squeeze out +1 point from it.

Answer 10

Perl 5, 6

:-)

':-)'

:)

v58.41

:-3

"\x3a\x2d\x33"

=]

<<A;
=]
A

B^D

q*B^D*

XP

`echo XP`

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