The Best Google Easter Eggs to Try in 2026
Google engineers have been hiding jokes in plain sight for two decades. Some easter eggs vanish, but a healthy zoo of them still works. Here are the ones worth typing in 2026 — tested, with exact search terms.
Search tricks
- "do a barrel roll" — the results page spins 360°.
- "askew" — the whole page tilts.
- "recursion" — Google asks if you meant… recursion.
- "the answer to life the universe and everything" — the calculator says 42.
- "anagram" — Google suggests "nag a ram".
- "google in 1998" — a retro throwback results page (appearing on and off over the years).
Playable easter eggs
- The dinosaur game — the king of them all, hiding behind Chrome's offline page. Play it online here or type chrome://dino; its own hidden extras are catalogued in dinosaur game easter eggs.
- "snake game", "minesweeper", "solitaire", "tic tac toe", "memory game" — full games inside Search; our hidden Google games tour covers each.
- "pacman" — the playable 30th-anniversary Doodle.
- "spinner" and "roll a die" — tiny but real.
3D and AR surprises
Search an animal on your phone and many offer "View in 3D" — the dinosaur lineup is the showstopper, placing a life-size T-Rex in your room. Species list and setup steps in Google dinosaur 3D.
Why Google does this
Easter eggs are cheap joy: they humanize a giant utility, they cost nothing to keep, and the best of them — a certain pixel T-Rex — grew from an error-page joke into one of the most played games in history, as told in the origins of the dinosaur game. The eggs come and go without announcement, so if one above stops working, it joined the fossil record.