Google’s homepage is not just a place to search for new things, it’s also known for Google Doodle games. Google keeps its main page fresh with some fascinating fun doodles that keep on changing from time to time. A few times, the Google Doodle team displays high-quality games to celebrate special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues. The Google Doodle is a work of art, that can be interactive, and also informative. Here, in this article, we will see the Top 10 most popular google doodle games that gained popularity over the years.
10) Scoville
Google Doodle released Scoville in 2016 to celebrate Wilbur Scoville’s 151st birth anniversary. It gives you the opportunity to show that spicy pepper who is the boss by chunking a scoop of ice cream at it. At the bottom of the battlefield, player will see a bar with a circle moving back and forth. To hit the pepper with a scoop of ice cream, player will have to try to stop the circle as close to the middle of the bar as possible then one can stop the circle with a single click on mouse. The more the player progress, the spicier the peppers get.
9) Garden Gnomes
Garden Gnomes was launched in 2018 to coincide with Germany’s Garden day. In this Doodle, player will learn a bit about the history of garden gnomes in the introduction of the game before launching them out of a trebuchet to plant a garden. The basic purpose of the game is to sling the gnomes from a player’s catapult as far as he/she can across the garden. The further one can sling them, the more flowers they plant.
8) Celebrating Pizza
Released in 2017, The Celebrating Pizza doodle commemorates the delicious food by allowing you to cut up pies from around the world. Player simply needs to
move the cursor to draw a line across the pizza in the first part and then in the second part cut it up with the pizza cutter.
7) Champion Island Games
It is considered to be the longest google doodle game. It takes around 2 hours to complete this game. It was created to celebrate both Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics and Paralympics. It comprised of different games at each level but the character will remain same. Character will be moved around the world map and approach each challenge. Different games have different controls, so instructions must be read carefully ahead of every game.
6) Baseball
The Google Doodle team released a Baseball doodle on July 4th, 2019 to celebrate both America’s independence and its favorite sport of all time. It takes a “three strikes and you’re out” approach, regardless of how many at-bats you have. When the game is started, a random food item walks up to the plate. Player needs to press the Spacebar to swing the bat when the pitcher throws the ball. The speed and style of the pitch will change or you can say the difficulty level will increase as a player crosses levels.
5) Coding for Carrots
This Google doodle was released in 2017, to celebrate 50 years of kids coding. Since then it is a popular fun game. The Google Doodle team, the Google Blackly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch collaborated to design the game. This game was introduced for the kids to let them understand the concept of coding. In this drag and drop game, building blocks are used for the rabbit(character) to help in going down the right direction to collect carrots.
4) Basketball
This sports theme-based Google Doodle allows to shoot in this single-player time-passer. It was a part of 4-day Google Doodle run in which a player can test their skills in soccer and slalom canoe. As per the head of Google Doodle team Ryan Germick, these games were played by more than 1 billion users in just four days.
3) Rubik’s Cube
Rubik’s Cube doodle was released in 2014 to celebrate 40th anniversary of the product. It’s an interactive way to play with one of the most beloved toy of all time. The basic purpose of this doodle is to get the same color on each side of the Cube by twisting and turning the available blocks in it. A Player simply needs to use the cursor to rotate the Rubik’s cube.
2) Cricket
This interactive doodle game is quite simple as well as highly addictive. It was released during 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. This highly popular google doodle allows to play as a batter and score as many runs as you can without getting out.
1) Pac Man
Google released this fun Doodle to celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary on 21 May, 2010. Since then, the doodle holds the top position in being people’s favorite. The objective of the game is to clear the stage of all the dots while avoiding the ghosts and during the game if a ghost touches you, game is over. Player can control Pac-Man with the arrow keys available on the keyboard.
FAQs:
- What is the oldest Google Doodle?
The first-ever Google Doodle was made in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998. This came into existence when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google decided to draw a stick figure behind the second ‘o’ of Google to symbolize the message that they were out of office at the Burning Man festival.
2. How do I download Google Doodle?
First visit Google’s archive page of all its doodles and look for the one you want to save offline. Then open the Google Doodle you want to save offline in Firefox, right-click it, and select This Frame>Show Only This Frame. This will open the doodle in the same tab. Copy the URL. Next, open Internet Explorer. Paste the URL you copied in the address bar and open it. Allow the doodle to load. Tap the Alt key to bring up Internet Explorer’s menu bar. Go to File>Save as. Alternatively, use the Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut to bring up the Save as dialog. In the Save as dialog, open the Save as type dropdown and select the Web archive format, and save the doodle. It will be saved with the MHT extension. This file type can only be opened in Internet Explorer. Open it, and you will be able to play the doodle.
3. Who designs Google Doodles?
Doodlers. The illustrators, engineers, and artists who design Google Doodles are called “Doodlers”. These doodlers have included artists like Ekua Holmes, Jennifer Hom, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Ranganath Krishnamani, Dennis Hwang, Olivia Fields, and Eric Carle.
4. How do I make a Google Doodle?
Download or print the entry form.
Doodle: Artists create their Doodles using any materials they want. From crayons to clay to found objects.
Write: Artist’s statement – Tell us about what you have drawn and how it represents how you care for yourself.
Submit:
A. Enter the content online (recommended) or by mail (see step 3 on the entry form for details).
B. Entry form Doodles: If the Doodle is created directly on our entry form, you can either upload them to our site as a .jpg or .png (visit the enter tab) or mail them in (address listed on the enter tab).
C. Other Doodles: If the Doodle wasn’t created directly on our entry form, take a high-res digital photo or scan of the Doodle in good lighting and combine it with the entry form.
