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You Can Now Play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe in Google's Search Results (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the some-fun-is-not-bad dept.

Paul Sawers, writing for VentureBeat: Google announced a couple of fun little nuggets today: you can now play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe directly in Google's search results. Available through the desktop and Google mobile apps, anyone searching for the keywords "solitaire" or "tic-tac-toe" will see the usual search results, but featured prominently alongside them you'll also now see a "tap to play" option which whisks you off to play the game. Google is no stranger to hiding so-called "easter eggs" in its products, including Search -- for example, last year it had a surprise in store to mark the anniversary of Super Mario. Moreover, Google already lets you play some games within Search, including Pacman.

8 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. AI needs some improvement by coldsalmon · · Score: 2

    I just won a game of Tic-Tac-Toe for the first time ever.

    1. Re:AI needs some improvement by freeze128 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Google's WOPR won't be online until spring.

    2. Re:AI needs some improvement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Google's WOPR won't be online until spring.

      Google, the only winning move is not to play.

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  2. Re:Bad precedent by npslider · · Score: 2

    Doesn't Oracle own the patent on Solitaire?

    I see a flock of lawyers placing pre-orders for new yachts in the near future...

  3. Re:Games, games! by darkain · · Score: 2

    Well, if you're on a device that supports Google Play... https://play.google.com/store/...

  4. Chess by unixisc · · Score: 2

    Toss in Chess. In fact, toss in some other games as well - Risk, Monopoly, Stratego, et al

  5. Pic Tac Toe by nuckfuts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem with Tic Tac Toe is that it's too deterministic. It will always end in a draw unless one player does something stupid.

    That's why I made up a variant I call "Pic Tac Toe". On each player's move, they can choose to write either an X or an O. The first person to get any three in a row wins.

    I don't know if anyone else has come up with this, or if it can also be proven to be deterministic. I suspect that it might be, but at least it adds a bit more variety to the game.

  6. Google Fiber? by maharvey · · Score: 2

    So this is what the former Google Fiber staff was assigned to develop...