Fidget Spinner Is Google’s Latest Easter Egg Distraction
I didn’t hesitate to squeeze out the occasional Doom in between college classes, and of course I don’t hesitate to catch Pokémon if they’re hiding in my office (it isn’t).
But if I have a particularly busy work day and want to kill 30 seconds before getting to a meeting, or want to focus my attention during a meeting, Google will take me behind the back with sweet Easter eggs for search engines. Just added a new one. It rhymes with the word sinner.
Fidget Spinner
The latest edition of Google’s Easter Egg List is the iconic Fidget Spinner now digitized for your continuous enjoyment. Finding the spinner and clicking on the toy will make it spin in the browser window; you can also twirl it with your finger on your smartphone. It is also possible to change the fidget spinner to a numeric spinning wheel if you want a random number between one and twenty. You can’t change any of the colors, but again, if it were more interactive, you probably would have wasted even more time.
Tic-tac-toe
Enter tic-tac-toe to learn about Google’s two-person board game. You can play with three difficulty settings and, if you’re sitting next to an equally unproductive colleague, compete against them in the same car in two-player mode.
Pacman
Appeared in the form of Google astrakhan in 2010, the search request « the Pac-man » will open in the browser game version of the game. Instead of the traditional layout of past pac-man games, the playing field is of course Google.
Solitaire
I’m not entirely sure why Microsoft doesn’t have a patent for every implementation of the classic solitaire card game, but Google’s version (of course, Solitaire search) offers two difficulty settings, as well as a timer, count and number of moves made.