8ball Emoji Kitchen
The pool ball emoji debuted on 3 February 2022 with eight pairings and went nowhere for two years. Then February 2024 brought 188 in one release. It now has 429 of 619. If you searched for eight ball mashups before 2024 and found almost nothing, that was accurate at the time and is no longer true.
Every 8ball mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added 8ball to Emoji Kitchen on 3 February 2022, starting with 8 combinations. It now mixes with 429 emojis, built up over 19 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 13.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 3.0% | |
| 8 | 1.9% | |
| 1 | 0.2% | |
| 2 | 0.5% | |
| 8 | 1.9% | |
| 3 | 0.7% | |
| 18 | 4.2% | |
| 57 | 13.3% | |
| 2 | 0.5% | |
| 3 | 0.7% | |
| 79 | 18.4% | |
| 188 | 43.8% | |
| 7 earlier drops | 47 | 11.0% |
Newest 8ball pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
A long flat start, then a step change
Eight pairings at launch, small additions through 2022 and 2023, then 188 at once on 6 February 2024. The release table above makes the shape obvious. This pattern shows up repeatedly in the Kitchen and it is worth understanding, because it means an emoji's current combination count tells you nothing about what it had a year ago. Judging the tool on a single emoji you tried once is how people conclude it is worse than it is.
The magic eight ball confusion
Most people searching for eight ball mashups want the fortune-telling toy, not the billiards ball. Unicode only has the billiards one, which is the black ball with the white number eight on this page. There is no magic eight ball emoji, so there are no magic eight ball stickers. The nearest substitute is pairing this with the crystal ball, which exists and does roughly the job people are after.
Make your own mashup
Want to combine different emojis? Use the interactive Emoji Kitchen tool to create your own custom mashups.
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8ball Emoji Kitchen FAQ
Is there a magic 8 ball emoji?
No. Unicode only encodes the billiards eight ball, which is what this page covers. Pairing it with the crystal ball is the closest you can get to a fortune-telling sticker using Emoji Kitchen.
When did eight ball get usable combinations?
6 February 2024, when a single release added 188 pairings. Before that it had been sitting at well under 200 since its February 2022 debut of eight.
Does the eight ball work with sports emoji?
Many sports pairings exist, though 190 of the 619 possible partners still return nothing. The grid above is the complete list, so anything not shown has no sticker rather than being hidden.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.