Google offers users the chance to play a text adventure game. (REUTERS)
Google users, let the games begin.
A Reddit post made headlines this week for uncovering a fun feature: a text adventure game inside the search engine.
“Found a crazy Easter egg,” the Redditor wrote on a Google subreddit Sept. 19 before revealing how to find the challenge.
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“Search for text adventure and open up the dev console,” the Reddit user explained. “It’s [sic] asks if you want to play a game.”
Sure enough, Google sleuths can find the game by looking up the phrase “text adventure.”
Users must right-click the search bar and select “Inspect” from a menu that pops up, USA Today notes. Then, they should look to the right of the page and choose “Console” from the top of menu.
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Once that’s complete, the challenge kicks off.
“Would you like to play a game? (yes/no)” Google asks in a message.
Daredevils who type "yes" then play a game where they are the G at the start of "Google." Then they must find the rest of the letters by entering various single word commands.
Google has a terse reply if you type “no” and indicate you don’t want to play.
“Fine, be that way,” the search engine says.
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