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Today’s popular Google Doodle game and the latest in the Stay and Play at Home series is a Doodle that celebrates Wilbur Scoville, the inventor of the Scoville Scale used to measure the heat of a pepper.
First appearing in January 2016 to mark Scoville’s 151st birthday, today’s interactive Doodle invites users to play like an ice cream cone as they go head to head with increasing heat peppers.
Interactive Google Doodle sees an animation of Scoville trying various peppers before cooling down with ice cream. The user’s goal is to defeat the pepper by throwing ice cream at it, hopefully freezing the pepper in an ice cube.
The first duel is against a pepper, which has zero Scoville heat units. But as the user defeats each bell pepper, he faces an even hotter contender. They’ll take on a jalapeño pepper, a Cayenne pepper, a Bhut jolokia, or a ghost pepper, which was the first pepper to score more than a million Scoville heat units, and a Trinidad Moruga scorpion pepper, which gets more than two million heat units.
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Who Was Wilbur Scoville?
Wilbur Scoville was a chemist, an award-winning researcher, professor of pharmacology, second vice president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, and creator of the Scoville Organoleptic Test, or Scoville Scale.
Scoville is best remembered for his organoleptic test, which used human testers to measure the heat of peppers, but one of the first mentions of milk as an antidote to the heat of pepper can be found in his book, The art of capitalization.
The artist behind the Doodle, Olivia When, told Google: “Spicy is something of a universal and comical experience, which I think opened the door for us to do something we normally couldn’t do, like a fighting game.”
Today’s Google Doodle on the home page sees the first O of the word Google sitting, eating a chili, before breathing fire.
Today, the Google Doodle is captioned: “As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere spend more time at home. In light of this, we are launching a Doodle series going back some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games!
“Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2016 Doodle Game Celebrating Wilbur Scoville!”
Google launched its Stay and Play at Home series on April 27, and last week, Google users played a game celebrating the first coding language designed for children, and a cricket game inspired by the ICC Champions Trophy.
They composed visual music inspired by Oskar Fischinger, and created visual music from scratch, in a Doodle celebrating Clara Rockmore. Finally, on Friday, they learned about the history of the garden gnomes in a catapult launch game.
