Just like the previous series, the latest one kicked off Monday, April 27, and is billed to run for 2 weeks.
“As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games!”
The series will cover more than 10 new series of Doodles, and by playing the games, you can have fun and kill boredom as a large percentage of the world’s population have to stay at home due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Some of the games featured by the company on the series are “Coding for Carrots”, “Rockmore”, “Lotería”, among others. Furthermore, Google is offering its cloud gaming service, Stadia, for free for 2 months.
This gesture shows that the brand considers gaming and coding as some of best methods for you to “Stay at home & save lives.”
Best Google Doodle Games to Play during Coronavirus Lockdown
These titles are really fun games, especially Rockmore which allows you to learn piano. Fortunately, you don’t have to download them. Simply visit the Google homepage on your browser and follow the instructions.
Here are the top Google’s most popular Doodle games to kill boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown:
Coding for Carrots
April 27 — the series started April 27, when “Coding for Carrots”, a popular Google Doodle game, first released in 2017, was featured. The title launched that year for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Logo.
Logo is the first-ever programming language that was designed to be used by kids. To play the game, you will make simple combinations of commands, which instruct your rabbit how it can collect the carrots on each level.
If you or your kid want to learn more about today’s throwback Doodle in particular, you can introduce them to Scratch. It’s a kid-oriented programming language on which Coding for Carrots is loosely based.
Cricket
April 28 — for the second day, the focus was on a Doodle, which celebrated the ICC Championships Trophy 2017, where you would play cricket as a cricket. Lovers of cricket will find this activity riveting, with the experience bringing to memory home run derby mode in Wii Sports.
Fischinger Doodle for Creating Music
April 29 — on the following day, we’ve something that is not really a game per se but more of an experience. Designed to celebrate the 117th birthday of Oskar Fischinger, in this Doodle, you find a fun way to simply create music using awesome accompanying visuals. You will need to tweak some settings; by playing with them, you can create the sounds you are searching.
Thus, this is an activity you can spend a lot of hours enjoying and mastering.
Rockmore: Playing an Instrument
April 30 — on the fourth day, you have Rockmore, a popular game that allows you to easily play a song using a signature instrument — Clara Rockwell’s theremin — from the 1930s. You can perform your own masterpiece on this instrument when you move your finger or mouse over the notes.
Theremin was a precursor to those electronic instruments of modern times. Once you’ve been able to master it, consider clicking the gear button to get other controls for the instrument’s sound.
Garden Gnomes
May 1 — apart from the music-themed Google Doodles, on Friday, we’ve a throwback that offers us a captivating game in the ever-fascinating genre of catapult titles.
The game, which was originally introduced to celebrate garden gnomes for Garden Day 2018, known as a German holiday, allows you to use a trebuchet for flinging a gnome 100s of meters, which bounces on clouds, mushrooms as well as logs along the way. This is an incredibly fun game you can try out!
Scoville: Ice Cream Scoop Doodle
May 4 — coming next in Google’s series of Doodle games is a simple game that celebrates Wilbur Scoville, who was the namesake for the Scoville Scale for measuring how hot a pepper’s, recorded in Scoville Heat Units (SHU).
In this game, you will play as a trio of ice cream scoops that are fighting back against a variety of peppers, with each growing progressively hotter. Aim to complete all the levels and get awarded the “Hottest” ranking!
Lotería Doodle
May 5 — owing to the fact that there are many of us, who may not be able to mark Cinco de Mayo, which is an annual celebration held on May 5, the way we’d like to, Google has come to our aid. The search company helps you celebrate Mexican culture today by the revival of their Lotería doodle
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It is a game of chance, which can be likened to bingo, making use of cards in place of numbers & beans as markers. A feature that makes this game quite special is, you are matched up automatically against other players on the Internet. Or you can play it with friends by simply sending a link to them.
As this series is expected to last 2 weeks, some other titles will get featured on Google’s homepage. To stay updated, you can check the page.
Wrapping up
Concerning Google’s reason for staggering out the games over 2 weeks, you may recall a number of the most fascinating and most popular Doodles in the past couple of years did come with multiplayer support. For instance, the Google Doodle for the 2018 celebration of Lotería, the Mexican bingo-like game, let you slug it out either with only your friends or random players on the Internet.
Therefore, Google is staggering out the titles to make sure each day’s focused game features a variety of players.
In addition to the company’s recent decisions as regards making Stadia free for 2 months and featuring Stadia on the Google’s homepage, it is quite evident the brand feels promoting gaming is among the most effective ways for encouraging people to “Stay Home & Save Lives.”
How do you see these top Google’s most popular Doodle games to kill boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown? Have you tried your hands on any of them?
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