Google’s Game of the Year puts your 2018 knowledge to the test

Game of the Year is designed to test you on how well you know what the world searched for this year. While the headlines of 2018 will look pretty familiar, what trended the most on Search can be quite surprising.

This is where Game of The Year comes in. It’s part of Google’s annual roundup of top trends of the past 12 months. It’s the first game based on Google Search trends that puts your knowledge of 2018 to the test in an interactive way.

The game is simple: Each player must answer a series of questions about this year’s trending searches, collecting points along the way. The questions get harder as you progress through the game. A special bonus round increases the difficulty even more. Players can also challenge their friends to test their own Google Search trendiness.

The game’s host was built using Google Cloud and WaveNet, Google’s text-to-speech technology powered by machine learning. Players can adjust the pitch and speed of the game host’s voice and if a player enters their name at the start, the audio updates on the fly, providing encouragement to players as they progress through the game.