Have time to kill? Try these out!
The Google Doodle is a work of art, sometimes interactive, and many times, informative (you find out who the Doodle is dedicated to).
And on occasion, Doodles have given us some simple but always-entertaining video games that have taken up hours — yes, for some of us, hours — of time. For this story, I did the hard work of re-trying them and some may have taken up a lot more time than others.
Let’s look back at the best of the best. I guarantee you’re going to play a bunch of these again to pass some time and remember how good they are:
Your ice cream tries to defeat some super spicy peppers. I did learn about Wilbur Scoville while playing it, but it’s not the best of the lot.
Cut up some pizza to give all your friends the slices they want. A big challenge that led me to 20 minutes of puzzle solving (and failing! This is a hard game!).
Frustrating at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fun.
This one was for the Tokyo Olympics and was super tough to beat — like a good Nintendo game!
You’re a goaltender trying to stop some kicks. Not bad!
If you never solved one, now’s your chance to do it virtually.
Fun for kids who like to code and a challenge for adults, too.
I remember people making some amazing beats with this one in 2017.
Underrated! You have 20 seconds to draw something a neural network then guesses. And they usually get it right, which is pretty incredible.
A classic.
Remember that old game where you had to make a penguin go super far in the snow? It’s the same idea where you launch a gnome and see how far it’ll go. I hadn’t played this one until researching this post and I then wasted an hour one night playing.
Or the “cat with a magic wand” game where you swipe certain ways to defeat some ghosts. Intense.
We spent a whole afternoon as a staff trying to best each other.
I spent A LOT of time figuring out how the pitcher’s hat color told me what pitch was coming. The GOAT!
