We spent a whole afternoon as a staff trying to best each other. You might have played this, but it is worth playing again! That cute and fun Halloween game Google made back in 2016! /rjpXS0F9Us Or the “cat with a magic wand” game where you swipe certain ways to defeat some ghosts. I hadn’t played this one until researching this post and I then wasted an hour one night playing. 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. Students really enjoyed 's #Quickdraw game ( ) at the Day 1, 'Introduction to Machine Learning' session of #ExploreML Beginner track. And they usually get it right, which is pretty incredible. Underrated! You have 20 seconds to draw something a neural network then guesses. I remember people making some amazing beats with this one in 2017. Coding Rabbitįun for kids who like to code and a challenge for adults, too. If you never solved one, now’s your chance to do it virtually. You’re a goaltender trying to stop some kicks. This one was for the Tokyo Olympics and was super tough to beat - like a good Nintendo game! 10. Basketballįrustrating at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fun. A big challenge that led me to 20 minutes of puzzle solving (and failing! This is a hard game!). Celebrating PizzaĬut up some pizza to give all your friends the slices they want. I did learn about Wilbur Scoville while playing it, but it’s not the best of the lot. Your ice cream tries to defeat some super spicy peppers. I guarantee you’re going to play a bunch of these again to pass some time and remember how good they are: 14. For this story, I did the hard work of re-trying them and some may have taken up a lot more time than others. The Google Doodle is a work of art, sometimes interactive, and many times, informative (you find out who the Doodle is dedicated to).Īnd 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.

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