25 Fun Google Search Easter Eggs You May Not Know About

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Cult games, hidden tools and popular culture references.

Built-in games

1. Pac-Man

The game that influenced the entertainment industry and spawned many clones is available right on the search page. Especially for the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the developers have hidden an "Easter egg" for fans. You can find it by requesting google pacman.

2. Tic-tac-toe

Enter tic-tac-toe and Google will offer to play the game. You can choose a friend or artificial intelligence as an opponent. The latter has three difficulty levels: easy, medium and impossible.

3. Minesweeper

A window with the game of the same name will appear if you enter the query "Minesweeper". As with Tic-Tac-Toe, Google offers three levels of difficulty. But you can only play one.

4. Solitaire

For fans of card games in Google there is one of the versions of solitaire - "Solitaire". To start it, type in the search "Solitaire".

5. Snake

Many people remember this game from the Tetris console and Nokia smartphones. Now you can play it right in the Google search - just enter the word "Snake".

6. Interesting facts

The next time you get bored, try typing fun facts into the search - you'll learn a lot. True, in English, but at the same time you will practice if you do not know the language perfectly - the definitions there are simple.

7. Dreidel

Another trick with an element of randomness. Right on the search page, you can play a Jewish game where you need to spin a four-sided top. To do this, you must enter "Dreidel".

Hidden tools

1. Calculator

If you suddenly need to calculate something, type "calculator". The tool not only performs basic operations, but also allows you to work with logarithms and trigonometric functions.

2. Color palette

Designers and layout designers can use a special color matching panel. To call it, enter in the search "color palette". If that doesn't work, type color picker.

3. Metronome

Google also paid attention to musicians. The developers have built a special tool into the search engine that sets the rhythm using repetitive sounds. It appears on request "metronome".

4. Breathing exercise

Breathing properly can help you deal with stress. But without special instructions and timers, it is difficult to find the optimal rhythm. A simple tool available on request "breathing exercises" will help you with this.

5. Coin

When you don't have a coin at hand, and you can't make a decision, the flip a coin request will help. The search engine will toss a coin and give the result.

6. Dice

Google also allows you to roll up to six virtual dice with varying numbers of edges. They resemble cubes from the popular D&D board game in format. They can also be used as a random number generator. The dice will appear if you enter a query in English - roll a dice.

7. Roulette

Another random number generator built into Google is roulette. After spinning, the wheel displays a number from 1 to 20. The tool is displayed when prompted by spinner. If you click in the upper right corner of Fidget, instead of a wheel, an insanely popular toy in the recent past will appear - a spinner.

Other Google Easter eggs

1. Sonic

Enter "Sonic video game" - and you will see a pixel image of its main character on the right side of the window. If you click on it, Sonic will start spinning with a characteristic sound. Just like the original game.

2. Block from Mario Bros

Tribute to another cult game - Mario Bros. The very block with the question mark, from which the nimble plumber knocks out upgrades for himself, can be seen right on the search page for mario bros. If you click on a block, a coin will fly out.

3. Curve search

You can play a prank on a friend if you enter askew (curve) into a search on his computer. After that, the entire page and its content will become skewed. However, any other query entered will return everything back.

4. Flashing text

HTML has a special tag that makes all the text that is framed by it blink. If you try to search for blink html, you will immediately understand what it is about and remember the tag itself.

5. Festivus

Festivus is not very common in our country, but very popular in Western popular culture. It is the antipode of Christmas and an annual holiday, the main symbol of which is a metal pole on a stand. This is what the festivus query adds next to the search results.

6. Make a barrel

A reference to another game - the flying Star Fox, where the player could roll (360 ° flip), becoming invulnerable for one second. For the search page to "make a barrel", you need to enter do a barrel roll. By the way, this also works in Google Now, and even for voice queries.

7. Back to the past

Haven't seen the beginning of the web, but want to know what the first version of Google looked like? It's easy to arrange: just type google in 1998 into the search. True, this easter egg works only in the English-language version of Google.

8. Recursion in action

If you ask Google what recursion is, it will clearly explain this to you, endlessly repeating his "Perhaps you meant 'recursion'".

9. Anagram example

As in the case of recursion, the query "anagram" will clearly show you what it is.

10. Answer to the main question of life

According to the book by Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the answer to the main question of life, the Universe and all that was supposed to solve all the problems of the world. A special computer was looking for an answer to it for 7, 5 million years. But Google can calculate it in a second. One has only to enter the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything. And do not be surprised later if you did not know.

11. Friends

On the 25th anniversary of Friends, Google has added fun Easter eggs for each character. They can be seen if you enter the names of the characters (with surnames). For example, on the Joey Tribbiani query page, a slice of pizza is displayed next to his photo. If you click on it, Joey's voice will say the famous phrase "Joey does not share food."

This material was first published in August 2016. In May 2020, we updated the text.