Google Celebrates 19th Birthday With 19 Games

Google is celebrating its birthday in perhaps the most Google of ways: with a Doodle that lets you play through the most fun Doodles ever.

The company is now 19 years old (or is it?) and so has a huge stock of entertaining and time-wasting little animations to play through. So it has selected the best of recent years and assembled them all into the meta-Doodle, which lets people use a spinner to find which of the Doodles to play.

Using the Doodle is simple enough: you head to the Google homepage, click on the spinner, and opt either to play the option you've been given or have another go. But read on, because there's a major catch.

For most people, picking through the games is an initially fun but quickly tiresome game of chance: you keep spinning, and are just as likely to repeatedly get a rubbish game as you are to get the one you enjoy.