--- title: New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016 description: The new Google Doodle lets you play as Momo the cat as you help her save the Magic Cat Academy from various ghosts and evil spirits canonical: https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/ author: Tekendra Parmar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T05:06:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:11.358Z og:title: New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016 og:description: Play as Momo the cat as you rescue her beloved magic school from ghosts og:url: https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62b28a432d8746ce/6988ac26e20a870f06a9303e/screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016 twitter:description: Play as Momo the cat as you rescue her beloved magic school from ghosts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62b28a432d8746ce/6988ac26e20a870f06a9303e/screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016 by [Tekendra Parmar](https://time.com/author/tekendra-parmar/) ## Tekendra Parmar Oct 31, 2016 5:06 AM UTC  Google Doodle for Halloween 2016 Google Doodle for Halloween 2016 by [Tekendra Parmar](https://time.com/author/tekendra-parmar/) ## Tekendra Parmar Oct 31, 2016 5:06 AM UTC Google celebrated Halloween by rolling out a spooky-fun [new Doodle that doubles as a game](https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2016). In a strangely addictive game, the doodle lets you step into the world of Momo the cat, who is on a mission to save her beloved Magic Cat Academy from a giant ghost that stole the school’s master spell book. According to Google, the furry hero was inspired by Doodler Juliana Chen’s own black cat named Momo. With a gaming style similar to that of a Nintendo Wii, the game has you draw various shapes and lines to cast spells on ghosts and spirits as they try and get you — think _Harry Potter_ meets _Dance Dance Revolution_. “Doodling for a whole Doodle game was very exciting for us,” Google said in a [statement](https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2016). Celebrate Halloween by playing through five fun levels and beating devious boss ghouls along the way. But as Google puts it, “You’d better pounce fast — the ghost that stole the master spell book is getting away!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016","datePublished":"2016-10-31T05:06:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:11.358Z","description":"Celebrate Halloween by playing through five fun levels","url":"https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google","2016","game","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62b28a432d8746ce/6988ac26e20a870f06a9303e/screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tekendra Parmar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tekendra-parmar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62b28a432d8746ce/6988ac26e20a870f06a9303e/screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-1-02-16-pm","caption":"Google Doodle for Halloween 2016","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4551044/google-doodle-halloween-2016/","name":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween 2016"}}]}] ```