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Today’s Popular Google Doodle Games and the latest in the stay and play at Home sequence is a Doodle honoring Wilbur Scoville, the inventor of the Scoville Scale used to calculate the heat of a pepper. First emerging in January 2016 to celebrate the 151st birthday of Scoville, today's immersive Google Doodle invites users to play as an ice cream cone as they go head-to-head with heat-enhancing peppers. Google Doodle interactive has a Scoville animation seeking different peppers before cooling down with ice cream. The aim of the user is to kill the pepper by throwing ice cream at it, which will ideally freeze the pepper in an ice cube. The first duel is against a bell pepper which has zero heat units in Scoville. But as the consumer defeats every pepper, they find themselves facing an even hotter contender. We must go up against a jalapeño pepper, a Cayenne pepper, a Bhut jolokia or a ghost pepper — that was the first pepper to score more than one million Scoville heat units — and a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper that scores more than two million heat units. Who was Wilbur Scoville?

Wilbur Scoville was a chemist, a prize-winning physician, a pharmacology professor, the American Pharmaceutical Association's second vice-president, and the founder of the Scoville Organoleptic Test, or Scoville Scale. Scoville is most known for his organoleptic study, which used human testers to measure pepper heat, but his book, The Art of Compounding, includes one of the earliest mentions of milk as an antidote to pepper heat. The artist behind the Doodle, Olivia When, said to Google: "Spiciness is somewhat of a universal, comical experience, which I think opened the door for us to do something we usually might not be able to, like a fighting game." Today's Google Doodle on the home page considers Google sit back in the first O of the term, eating a chili pepper, before breathing out fire. "As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we're launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games!” Today, the Google Doodle is captioned. "Stay and play at home with today's featured throwback: Our 2016 Doodle game celebrating Wilbur Scoville!"