Google Doodles celebrates events, and also surprise people on Google’s homepage. It is known to celebrate birthdays, death dates, national holidays, historical achievements, and more. Google Doodle additionally offers mini-games like Google’s Birthday Surprise Spin. Here, we will discuss about Google Birthday Surprise Spinner and the process to access it.
The Google Birthday Surprise Spinner was a special doodle. It was created by Google to celebrate its 19th anniversary on 27 September 2017. This was launched as an online birthday party invitation. It featured a spinner wheel that users could spin to play one of 19 interactive Google Doodles from the past. Each game represented a different past Doodle. It allows its users to experience some of Google’s memorable doodles over the years. It was a fun way for Google to celebrate its birthday while highlighting some of its past creative Doodle.
This was exclusively around for a short time frame to celebrate that particular birthday, yet many of us remember it as one of Google’s cooler and quirkier highlights.
How to access Google Birthday Surprise Spinner?
- Go to the Google home page and navigate to “Google Birthday Surprise Spinner” in the search bar.
- It will display a colorful spinner with different emoji’s on it.
- Click on the wheel and it will start spinning.
- The Spinner will randomly select one of 19 interactive games or activities; each one represents a different year in Google’s history.
- Click on the “Spin Again” button to spin the wheel for a different surprise.
- You can even share the wheel with friends or family by clicking the “Share” icon on the top right corner.
Games Features by Google
Here we have mentioned all the 19 interactive games featured by Google-
1. Snake Game:
It is one of the latest games to be highlighted in Google’s “search funbox.” It provides classic games on your screen whenever you search for them. The inspiration for this was from the iconic Nokia game. The Nokia 6110 was the first phone to feature the Snake game. After that they continued to feature the Snake game in every model. In the game, the objective is to eat apples and save the snake from the wall and from the snake itself while it grows the length of its tail. You will lose the game if you bump into the wall or into the snake itself.
2. Cricket Game:
Google launched The Cricket to celebrate the ICC Champions Trophy. It became one of the most popular Doodle games created by Google. This doodle is designed for all cricket lovers. It’s a perfect game for a kid that lets you play cricket on your Android phone for free. The most interesting part about this game is that it’s a match between snails and cricket. Where the snails are fielders and you are a batter. It’s a one-sided game where you can only bat by tapping on the screen and taking a swing at the bat. If you don’t want to get defeated by snail fielders, just make sure to hit the ball flying into the air.
3. Earth Day Quiz:
It was featured in 2015 as a part of a Doodle. If you want to know what animal you are, simply go to the Google search bar and search for “Earth Day Quiz” on Google. The quiz has been taken by many celebrities and famous environmentalists. Searching for an “Earth Day quiz” will provide total scientific and hundred percent accurate answers. Take a moment to answer a few quizzes to celebrate Earth Day and know what animal you are.
4. Hip Hop Game:
Hip Hop games the famous game in the highlights of “Google Spinner Game”. The game was to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Hip Hop. It’s a fun game specially designed for music lovers. It allows you to mix and play music as a DJ.
To start with the Hip Hop game, press the play button and it will display a “record crate” where you can select between different classic songs. Once you have selected your song, you can now customize the song by using slider controls. Now you have created your hip-hop song.
5. Oskar Fischinger Visual Music Composition Creator:
This incredible Doodle launched by Google to honor the German artist Oskar Fischinger. The game was created by Google to celebrate the 117th birthday of an incredible music creator “Oskar Fischinger.
This game allows you to a page where you can use dots on an 11×16 grid to visually compose music. Each dot addresses a note, and you can choose between four unique “instruments”. You can even delay the composition that is playing in the background by simply increasing the tempo.
6. Breathing Exercise
Google breathing exercise is one of the games of “Google Spinner”. If you are feeling stressed and anxious you can use this feature to calm yourself. All you need to do is, search for “Google breathing exercise” and click the play icon. Google will display the one-minute breathing exercise session while providing the breathe-in breathe-out instruction for the same.
7. Tic Tac Toe
The Tic Tac Toe is one of the special birthday surprises in the Google Spinner. It is a quick and simple game to play. This can be completed within 60 seconds. You can play this game with your friends or close ones. If you don’t have someone to play with, you can even play with a Google bot.
8. Pac-man
It is one of the most loved Doodle games in the Google birthday surprise spinner. Google created this game to make the 30th birthday of Pac-Man memorable and celebrate it. This Pac-man game features a map.
The map resembles the Google logo. This game is about eating “power cookies” and after growing larger, eating the ghost. Here Google has tried to include the original Pac-Man’s sounds and graphics and even recreated the original bugs from this 1980’s masterpiece.
9. Animal Sounds:
“Animal Sounds is a fun game where you can hear some different sounds of animals by simply searching “animal sounds.” The Google search result will display the image with a sound play button. For example, if you type “Lion sound” It will make the sound of a lion roaring.
10. Klondike Solitaire:
Klondike is a famous solitaire game. Google Birthday Surprise Spinner has a version of Klondike solitaire. It typically allows its users to go through numerous difficulty levels, like simple, medium, and hard. This can influence the quantity of cards, managed from the deck at a time. It becomes more challenging as players progress to higher levels.
11. Pangolin Love:
This game featured in Google Birthday Surprise Spinner from Valentine’s Day 2017. This game is about two pangolins finding each other after separating. It involves facing various challenges and difficulty levels until the pangolins reunite.
12. Arpeggios Music Lab:
Arpeggios Music Lab was created by Yotam Mann to celebrate its “Music in Our School Month.” Here you can experiment with a collection of music and codes. This experiment lets you learn Arpeggios in different ways. You can even tap the wheel to experiment with major and minor chords.
13. Beethoven game:
Google Birthday surprise spinner features a Beethoven game. It launched in 2015. The reason to launch was to celebrate the 245th birthday of Beethoven. In this, you need to help Beethoven in work after his accident on the way to a concert hall. His work includes the Fifth Symphony, Fur Elisa, the Moonlight Sonata, and Ode to Joy.
14. Halloween Spells:
The Halloween game initially launched in 2016 to celebrate Halloween, and it features in the surprise spinner for Google’s 19th birthday. In this game, the player is on a mission to rescue her magic school from an evil spirit who stole the master spellbook.
15. Scoville Game:
Another game featured in Google’s birthday surprise spinner is the Scoville game. This game launched by Google to celebrate the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville. In this game Wilbur Scoville measures pepper’s spiciness differently and tells the heat levels and after that eats ice cream.
16. Clara Rockmore Theremin Lesson:
This interactive Google Doodle launched in 2016. The game featured in Google’s birthday surprise spinner to celebrate the 105th birthday of musician Clara Rockmore. It allows you to play the instrument and learn the life and experience of Clara Rockmore. In this game, a Doodle form of Clara Rockmore herself teaches you the first note, second note, and third note of music.
17. Galapagos Islands
It is one of the 19th games in Google’s birthday surprise spinner. It’s a Google Maps tool that lets you explore the island of Galapagos from your mobile and computer device. It allows scientists and researchers to study the land, coast, and sea of the Galapagos Islands. These islands are home to many wildlife species. This game provides a detailed study to the researchers and a firsthand view.
18. Pinata Smash:
Piñata smash is a bright and colorful game launched to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of Google. In this 18th game of Google Spinner players try to smash piñata for getting digital candy.
19. Pony Express Game:
It is the final Google doodle in the Google birthday surprise spinner. The game released in 2015 for the 155th anniversary of Pony Express. The inspiration came from the mail delivery service in the 19th century. In this game, players need to collect letters by going through all the obstacles.
Conclusion:
The Google birthday surprise spinner game was launched to celebrate Google’s 19th birthday. It’s a great way to celebrate history and different cultures while playing fun games. Here we have provided detailed information on all the 19 games of Google birthday surprise spinner.