Google's latest peppery doodle to observe Wilbur Scoville's 151st birthday.
Do you like picante food? Can you scale the spiciness of it?
Well in 1922 a test was devised known as the Scoville Organoleptic Test by Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, an American pharmacist.
The Scoville Organoleptic test could measure the amount of capsaicin, chemical responsible for the spicy heat, in hot peppers. This test helped to develop a scale known as the Scoville Scale, named so after Wilbur Scoville.
To honour Mr Scoville for his achievements and success Google sketched a doodle and outlined a game for him on his 151st birthday.
The doodle has Wilbur Scoville standing in the middle holding a red-hot pepper in his hand. The background of the doodle is covered with various kinds of pepper. Associating the colour red with the hotness of spices, red colour dominates the doodle. On the right bottom corner is a burning play button which leads you to the "Ice-Cream Win" game specially designed by Google to give recognition to Mr Scoville.
As soon as you click on the doodle the game begins, you will see Mr Scoville eating a pepper and then devouring an ice cream to clam his burning tongue. Soon after this the actual game begins.
"Ice-Cream Win" game has an ice-cream cone with three scoops of ice-creams on it (the player) and a pepper (player's enemy), whose intensity of hotness increases as the level upgrades. The player need to subside the hotness of the pepper by throwing the ice-cream scoops at it. There is a game bar at the bottom, when the pointer lands at the center of the bar the user need to click and freeze the pepper.
The doodle is a fun animated game designed by Olivia Huynh to remember Mr Scoville's work. His book, The Art of Compounding, makes one of the earliest mentions of milk as an antidote for pepper heat. He is perhaps best remembered for his organoleptic test, which uses human testers to measure pungency in peppers.
After the game ends, click on the search (magnifying glass) button to get directed to the google search page where all the webpages linked to Mr Scoville and his work are listed.