



The game was difficult, but there was something fun about seeing a cat take on all those scary ghosts.īut if last year’s Doodle was about a lone cat battling scary ghosts, that story takes on a new significance in this year’s Doodle - when one of those ghosts, a sweet little critter named Jinx, attempts in vain to go trick-or-treating with Momo and her friends, only to wind up scaring them instead.Īs the Doodlers detail on the Doodle’s information page, Jinx went through several iterations before landing in their final form, and the members of the team each contributed ideas for the costumes Jinx tries on in their efforts to find the perfect ghostly disguise. The object of the 2016 game was for Momo the cat to defeat a lot of menacing ghosts in the Magic Cat Academy where she was studying wizardry. When 2016 rolled around, Momo was a full-blown character (based on a real cat named Momo, no less). The inspiration for Momo came from the previous year’s Doodle, which featured a very popular but unnamed cat. Last year, Google turned its annual Halloween Doodle into an exciting game about a magical cat named Momo. But, as it turns out, this particular Google Doodle - about an enterprising ghost named Jinx and the band of trick-or-treaters Jinx runs into - is actually a sequel of sorts to last year’s Halloween Doodle. If you’ve seen this year’s heartwarming Halloween Doodle, a short video about a lonely ghost who longs to go trick-or-treating, it’s possible you thought it couldn’t get any more adorable. But Google’s annual holiday Doodle gives the holiday an unexpected warm and fuzzy side. On Halloween, we look forward to scares, tricks, and chills.
