The new Google Doodle game ‘Rise of the Half Moon’ will have you hooked for days

This game is so fun.

Since the Google Doodle popcorn game, we haven’t gotten a fun game from Alphabet in a little while … until now.

This one is called Rise of the Half Moon, and it’s one of those interactive card games. The premise is simple: you play against an artificial opponent and get cards to play with different phases of the moon. You get points if you match cards next to each other, or if you cards “create” a full moon. You also get points for creating a lunar cycle.

MORE: The best Google Doodle games of all time

There you have it! Enjoy like I did.

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The new popcorn Google Doodle game will have you hooked for days

This game is so fun.

Whether it’s Google’s snake game or any number of the great Google Doodle games over the years, I can say I get hooked and can play them for hours.

That’s the case with the new popcorn game that’s popped up (sorry, not sorry) as of late and has everyone hooked too.

The premise is simple: you are a kernel of corn. Your job is to NOT be cooked by the various ingredients that go into popcorn, from butter to salt to the microwave. Your only defense? The ability to form a temporary shield.

MORE: The best Google Doodle games of all time

And you can play with a bunch of strangers. So fun! Enjoy like I did.

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Google’s Snake game has a daily challenge that’s deceptively tough

Google’s Snake game is so good.

The classic game of Snake is a simple one: you direct a snake to gobble up food, but the moment you do, your tail gets bigger and bigger, and the goal is not to ram into it or into the wall. When you do, game over.

Google, as part of its array of Google Doodle games, now has a version of Snake in which you have a daily challenge. Sometimes, you’re in a very small space with obstacles. Sometimes, your snake has a weird-looking tail.

Whatever it is, it’s tough and fun, and it seems like people around the interwebs are using their lunch hours to give it a shot. Simply type in “snake” into Google and away you go.

Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7bdESmrAWX0?app=desktop

Google Doodle brings back a magic cat for a fun Halloween game

Momo is back!

Around the time of Halloween in 2016, Google delivered one of the best Doodle games of all time: Magic Cat Academy, in which users swiped to make a feline with a magic wand cast spells and get rid of ghosts coming to haunt it.

On Friday, the day before Halloween 2020, we got the sequel, in which Momo — yes, the cat has a name — goes underwater to fight ghosts one more time. It feels like even more of a challenge than the last round, but that also may be because I played with a mouse on my laptop this time and used my phone the first time.

Enjoy!

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The 13 best Google Doodle games, ranked

Have time to kill? Try these out!

The Google Doodle is a work of art, sometimes interactive, and many times, informative (you find out who the Doodle is dedicated to).

And 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. For this story, I did the hard work of re-trying them and some may have taken up a lot more time than others.

Let’s look back at the best of the best. I guarantee you’re going to play a bunch of these again to pass some time and remember how good they are:

13. The Scoville Game

Your ice cream tries to defeat some super spicy peppers. I did learn about Wilbur Scoville while playing it, but it’s not the best of the lot.

12. Basketball

Frustrating at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fun.

11. Soccer

You’re a goaltender trying to stop some kicks. Not bad!

9. Rubik’s Cube

If you never solved one, now’s your chance to do it virtually.

8. Coding Rabbit

Fun for kids who like to code and a challenge for adults, too.

7. Hip Hop

I remember people making some amazing beats with this one in 2017.

6. Quick, Draw!

Underrated! You have 20 seconds to draw something a neural network then guesses. And they usually get it right, which is pretty incredible.

5. Pac-Man

A classic.

4. Garden Gnome

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. I hadn’t played this one until researching this post and I then wasted an hour one night playing.

3. Halloween 2016 — Magic Cat Academy

Or the “cat with a magic wand” game where you swipe certain ways to defeat some ghosts. Intense.

2. Cricket

We spent a whole afternoon as a staff trying to best each other.

1. Baseball

I spent A LOT of time figuring out how the pitcher’s hat color told me what pitch was coming. The GOAT!

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