Aug 10

Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout

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Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout

Relive the nail-biting insanity and inherent unfairness of soccer’s penalty shootout over at Google right now, as you try to match our first-attempt score of 18 points and two gold stars. (We’ll update this post as soon as an Engadget editor gets a result we can be proud of.) It’s a ballistic way to end a run of Doodles that has already involved canoeing, hoops, hurdles and all-round Olympic work avoidance. Post your scores here at your own risk.

Update: Did we say 18? We meant 81, but forgot to take a grab, so officially we’ll have to make do with a top score of 34.

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Aug 09

Hit the rapids with Google’s latest Olympic doodle

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It’s time to pound the arrow keys again for Mountain View’s latest Olympic doodle game, a whitewater slalom canoe challenge. The idea is to speed through the course with the left/right keys in the best time while using up/down to avoid rocks and the riverbank. Our intrepid web paddlers managed a time of 18 seconds so far, and you can post your own time in the comments below — if you dare.

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Aug 08

Google keeps the interactive Olympic doodles going, tests your spacebar with a game of hoops

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If your keyboard survived yesterday’s track & field test, the folks in Mountain View have posted another interactive doodle to satisfy your Olympic dreams. This time around, you can give arcarde-style basketball your best shot by tapping on your spacebar to get into a rhythm from the charity stripe. Once you hit that blue play button, you’ll have 24 seconds to give the main search page your best Kevin Durant. A chance for Google+ bragging rights awaits your fingers via the source link below.

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Aug 07

Google’s Olympic doodles get interactive with button-mashing hurdles

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Google's Olympic doodles get interactive with buttonmashing hurdles

Google has already churned out quite a few of its trademark doodles for the Olympics, but it’s upped its game considerably today for its depiction of the hurdles. Pressing that red play button on the search engine’s front page will let you test your Track & Field skills (and your keyboard’s sturdiness) in an interactive event — one where you can, naturally, also share your results on Google+ when you’re finished. Hit the source link below to give it a go yourself.

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