


The Birthday Surprise Spinner includes classic titles such as Pac-man, Solitaire, and Pony Express re-jigged in the Google Doodle style, plus there’s also a version of Snake in there. It adds to the growing catalog of interactive Google Doodle games, and as part of Google’s 19th birthday celebration, the firm compiled its best games into a Birthday Surprise Spinner which will randomly select games for you to play.

The game tasks players with using basic MIT Scratch programming on-screen by locking coding blocks together as part of six puzzle levels, doing so will help a fluffy bunny collect, you guessed it, carrots.Ĭoding For Carrots is the result of a collaborative effort between the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch, it was developed for Computer Science Education Week. To commemorate the occasion in typical Google style, the firm has released an interactive Doodle game called Coding For Carrots. It's as fun as it is weird – and you get to learn some great chili pepper facts on the way.Google’s celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the launch of the coding language Logo – the coding language aimed specifically at helping children learn to code. But that's where it all gets weird – you're then taken to a strange game where you have to throw ice cream at a chilli pepper with good enough timing to undo its heat. And the game sort of commemorates that, by showing the scientist eating a chilli and then cooling his mouth down with ice cream. Scovile scales: This Doodle was created to honour Wilbur Scovile, the man who created the measurements for how hot chilis are. What you can do, however, is click through from that same page to Google's Chrome Music Lab – and in there you'll find a huge range of different, strange musical experiments.

So it's worth giving it a try – but you'll probably not have as much fun as when you're playing the two above. It's beautifully crafted and interesting, especially if you're keen to learn about songwriting or musical theory. Arpeggios: The last of the musical experiences – and probably, to be honest, the most boring – this game allows you to look at the way chords and arpeggios work.
