There’s a secret adventure game hidden in Google Search. Here’s how to play, Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game.
There’s a new Google text adventure you can play to beat the boredom. Google is known for hidden Easter eggs inside products, and the latest is a text adventure game inside Google.com. The game was first highlighted by the website RockPaperShotgun. The game can be easily found by anyone who knows the secret method for this.
The text adventure game from Google can be found inside the Google Chrome browser. It also works on Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browser. It looks like Apple’s Safari browser does not support this. So how can you find the Google text adventure game?
Once you have opened the Google Chrome browser or Firefox or Edge, just search for the term ‘text adventure’ on Google. A list of results will pop-up, but you need to right click and go on the option for Inspect. In Windows, users can rely on Ctrl + Shift + I for the Inspect feature to open up. On Mac, the quick command for this is Command + Option + I.
A Reddit user discovered a hidden adventure game buried in Google search’s development console.
The adventure game is the latest in a long list of Google Easter eggs and oddities dedicated to video games and pop culture.
Have some time to kill today? Read here to learn how to access this Internet gem.
The latest Easter egg is a secret adventure game hidden inside Google search’s development console. The game was discovered by Reddit user attempt_number_1, who shared his find on the Google Reddit page.
Have some time to kill? Some work you’d like to procrastinate on? Here’s how to go on your own Google adventure.
The Google search bar houses a fun text-based adventure game, if you know where to look.
Start by searching for “text adventure” in Google search.
On the results page, go to the development console. You can either right-click in the browser and select “Inspect Element” or hit “Ctrl+shift+J” (Cmd+Option+J for Mac).
When the development console comes up, select the “Console” tab along the top.
The console will ask, “Would you like to play a game?” Type “yes” to start.
In the game, you play as a big blue G looking for your five friends: red o, yellow o, blue g, green l, and the “always quirky” red e. You must explore Google’s Mountain View campus to find them. Along the way, you have to perform tasks like helping “nooglers” (that’s “new googlers”) get around and properly greeting a door-keeping alligator.
In the tradition of text-adventure greats like Zork, the game is presented and controlled entirely through text. You type “north” to move north, “grab” to grab an item, and “quack” to quack.
You win by collecting all your friends to complete the Google logo. You’ll also receive a tally based on your number of actions, the time you took to complete it, and a secret score that I won’t spoil here.
Google has a long history of including video game shout outs in its search engine. To pick just a few examples; typing “zerg rush” into the search bar will cause an army of Os to attack your results (a shout-out to the alien race from Starcraft); typing “do a barrel roll” will cause the screen to flip (a shout-out to Star Fox 64‘s Peppy Hare); and typing “pacman google” will bring up a playable Pacman game in the shape of the Google logo (a Google Doodle crafted in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary).
the search engine’s language settings include Pirate, Klingon, and Elmer Fudd.
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