Google highlights Lake Xochimilco in Mexico in its Doodle for Saturday, May 20, 2023. It hides an adorable game in which you have to find axolotls. Here’s how to play it.
The axolotl is a fascinating creature. This species of salamander is at the heart of a paradox: the axolotl is an abundant species in captivity, but threatened in the wild. This Saturday, May 20, 2023, Google wants to raise awareness of this situation. The search engine has come up with a Doodle that is as cute as it is fun, easily accessible.
How to play the Google axolotl game?
To play the little Google game on axolotls, it’s very simple. Just go to the search engine’s home page, right here. Then, you have to click on the “Play” symbol of the Doodle to enter the game. We then wish you the ” welcome to lake xochimilco, mexico “, presented as the ” last habitat of axolots “. The Doodle then indicates the object of the game: Try to spot one of these rare creatures and take a picture of it. »
Then, it’s off: while your ship evolves peacefully on the surface of the water, you must click on the axolotls you see to take a picture of them. When you succeed, the photo taken is displayed, possibly accompanied by a small informative text. Then the quest can continue, until you have timed out or found every creature — 5 different axolotls, in all.
This fun online game is illustrated by French artist Helen Leroux. She works on Google’s Doodle team, and has even traveled to Mexico to research Lake Xochimilco. You can find his sketches of axolotls on this Google page dedicated to this Doodle of May 20, 2023, as well as other of his creations on his site.
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