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July 12th 2023’s interactive game Doodle celebrates pani puri — a popular South Asian street food made of a crispy shell stuffed with potatoes, chickpeas, spices, or chilis and flavoured waters. And there’s a variety of pani puri for everyone’s taste buds! On this day in 2015, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a restaurant called Indori Zayka and Dainik Bhaskar achieved the World Record for serving the most flavors of pani puri by offering 51 options, under the guidance of Masterchef Neha Shah.

Celebrating Pani Puri

May 20th 2023’s interactive Google Doodle celebrates Lake Xochimilco, a natural lake near Mexico City that is the last remaining native habitat for axolotls in the world (cousins of the salamander). The lake was once home to the ancient Aztec civilization during the 15th century, and eventually landowners in the colonial period took over occupation of the lake. On this day in 1920, the Mexican government returned Lake Xochimilco back to the locals. Lake Xochimilco now serves as a recreational site, cultural attraction, and home to the rare axolotl species.

Celebrating Lake Xochimilco

Tangy and fruity or sweet and milky? The combinations are endless! Today’s interactive game Doodle celebrates bubble tea, also known as boba tea and pearl milk tea. Honeydew, matcha, raspberry, mocha – no matter the flavor, don’t forget to mix in some bubbly balls made with fruit jelly or tapioca. Bubble Tea gained such popularity globally that it was officially announced as a new emoji on this day in 2020.

This Taiwanese drink started as a local treat and has exploded in popularity over the last few decades. Bubble tea has its roots in traditional Taiwanese tea culture which dates back as early as the 17th century. However, it wasn’t until the 1980s that the bubble tea as we know today was invented. As waves of Taiwanese immigrants over the past few decades brought this drink overseas, innovation on the original bubble tea continues. Shops around the world are still experimenting with new flavors, additions, and mixtures. Traditional tearooms across Asia have also joined in on the boba craze, and the trend has reached countries like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and more!

Satisfy your craving and make a yummy cup of bubble tea in today’s interactive Doodle, which features Taiwan’s indigenous Formosan Mountain Dog as well as a crew of familiar Doodle characters!

Celebrating Bubble Tea

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Today’s interactive game Doodle celebrates the 82nd birthday of Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, one of the fathers of modern gaming who led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges. The Doodle features games designed by three American guest artists and game designers: Davionne Gooden, Lauren Brown, and Momo Pixel.

Gerald "Jerry" Lawson's 82nd Birthday

Exploring one of several spooky maps, players must collect as many wandering spirit flames as they can in two minutes and return them to their homebase. After time’s up, the team that has collected the most spirit flames wins. But beware! - Opponents can intercept spirits from one another as they bring them back to homebase.

Players can choose to host a game with up to seven friends and family via a custom invitation link OR just play with randomized players around the globe. The team built several systems to enable this multiplayer gaming, all running on the Google Cloud Platform, including integrating Open Match, a highly-scalable, open source matchmaking framework cofounded by Google Cloud and Unity.

It looks like the ghost is clear—Let's Ghoul!

The Great Ghoul Duel 2

Go back in time to ancient Mesoamerica and help save the world!

The Descent of the Serpent

The game where AI judges your drawing skills.

Guess the Line

This pizza puzzle game features a few of the most beloved pizza toppings from all over the world and challenges you to slice based on the type of pizza ordered. But keep a close eye on the requested toppings and number of slices—the more accurate the order, the more stars you earn!

Celebrating Pizza

A google mini game bundle with anime cutscenes starring a ninja cat

Doodle Champion Island Games

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They're baaack!

This Halloween, we’re picking up right where our 2016 Magic Cat Academy Doodle left off with a subaquatic shriek-quel! Dive in with Momo the cat to help new friends and reach new depths in her adventure against the Big Boss ghost and its school of ghouls...underwater.

Feline lucky? Swim and swipe to PURR-tect the ocean and its creatures before it’s too late!

Magic Cat Academy 2

An arcade-style baseball game Google Doodle released in the US for July 4th.

Doodle Baseball

Navigate different cities around the world in this rendition of the classic arcade game Snake.

Google Maps Snake

Google Minesweeper is a playable version of the game Minesweeper that is accessible in the Google search engine.

Google Minesweeper

Easter egg Google game found by searching "text adventure" on Google.

Google Text Adventure

The Great Ghoul Duel pits teams of ghoulists against one another in a race to claim as many spirit flames as possible before time runs out! Collect power-ups, steal your opponent's flames, and help your fellow ghouls with Buddy Bonuses, all to secure your team's victory (and a post-game Superlative for your standout gameplay).

The Great Ghoul Duel

Google Solitaire is a playable version of the game Solitaire that is accessible in the Google search engine.

Google Solitaire

An interactive Google Doodle that was created to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages were first introduced to the world. The game makes you program a rabbit to get through each stage.

Celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding

Google Snake is a playable version of the game Snake that is accessible in the Google search engine. The game can be played by searching "play snake".

Google Snake

Ah, summer: the sound of leather on willow, and the spectacle of cricket ... cricket! As the tournament begins, something buzzes outside. A team of crickets sans tickets have set up their own wickets for a game of pest cricket! As they face their archrivals, the snails, it’s sure to be a match for the centuries. Don’t be fooled by their sluggish looks — these fielders can be fast on their feet!

Google Cricket

Happy Halloween!
Grab your wand and help fend off a ghostly catastrophe. Press play to swipe spells, save your friends, and help restore the peace at the Magic Cat Academy.

This year’s Halloween Doodle follows freshman feline Momo on her mission to rescue her school of magic. Help her cast out mischievous spirits by swiping in the shape of the symbols above the ghosts’ heads. And you’d better pounce fast—the ghost that stole the master spellbook is getting away!

Magic Cat Academy

Welcome to the Global Candy Cup, a fierce competition where four extraordinary witches race to collect the most candy before the end of Halloween. Join one witch’s worldwide team and keep playing throughout the day to add to your team’s score. Only one team will go home with the Cup — will it be yours?

Global Candy Cup 2015

Collect letters, avoid obstacles and aim for the ultimate 100 letter delivery!

155th Anniversary of the Pony Express

Chrome Dino is a game easter egg in Google's Chrome web browser. It can be played by touching over the dinosaur or pressing the space bar when your internet connection goes down or by accessing chrome://dino/ on the web browser.

The game is an endless runner. The objective is to jump over cacti an avoid pterodactyls flying in your direction.

Chrome Dino

100th Anniversary of the Crossword Puzzle

The Doctor Who doodle started life as a request from a huge fan at Google. It seemed daunting- 11 Doctor's, 50 years of adventures, countless enemies and time travel!

Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary

An interactive Google Doodle made for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary.

Those dastardly Daleks have stolen the Google letters and we need Doctor Who to retrieve them!

Google Doodle: Doctor Who 50th Anniversary

The doodle marking the 66th Anniversary of the Roswell Incident tells the story of an alien, who, despite having mastered interstellar space travel, appears less than adept at making a smooth landing on Earth. The team was inspired by classic point-and-click adventure games, and wanted to invite users to help an alien repair its spacecraft by exploring a 1940's New Mexican landscape, interacting with farm animals, and solving puzzles. When designing the game, we tried to think of things from an alien's point of view... chatting with a cow or chicken would be just as novel as meeting human beings for the first time; horseshoes and sacks of feed might be considered fascinating artifacts.

Roswell's 66th Anniversary

Google: Image Breakout was an online game built into Google Images that could be accessed by typing "Breakout" into the search tab. The game was a version of the game Breakout by Atari, but every block is a Google Image result for the game.

Google: Image Breakout

Chinese New Year 2013 is a Google Doodle made to celebrate the year of the Snake.

Chinese New Year 2013

YouTube Snake was an easter egg game in the YouTube video play that was first included in July 2010, however has since been removed. The game was a playable version of the game Snake and was accessible by pressing up when a video was buffering.

YouTube Snake

Google Santa Tracker is an annual Christmas-themed web game first launched in 2004 by Google that simulates the tracking of the legendary character Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, using predetermined location information. It also allows users to play, watch, and learn through activities that are added daily in December.

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