--- title: Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Teaches Spooky Facts About Animals description: It's Halloween and Google has treated us to another spooky interactive Doodle–this one will teach you fun facts about animals. canonical: https://time.com/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/ author: Rachael Bunyan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-31T19:10:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:00.593Z og:title: Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Will Teach You All Kinds of Spooky Facts About Animals og:description: It's Halloween and Google has treated us to another spooky interactive Doodle–this one will teach you fun facts about animals. og:url: https://time.com/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764f562074554879/698a052009208f721f415c64/screenshot-2019-10-31-at-12.37.25.png?branch=production&width=385&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 385 og:image:height: 217 og:image:alt: Google celebrates Halloween 2019 with a new doodle. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Will Teach You All Kinds of Spooky Facts About Animals twitter:description: It's Halloween and Google has treated us to another spooky interactive Doodle–this one will teach you fun facts about animals. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764f562074554879/698a052009208f721f415c64/screenshot-2019-10-31-at-12.37.25.png?branch=production&width=385&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Will Teach You All Kinds of Spooky Facts About Animals > Sponsored content. 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Google by [Rachael Bunyan](https://time.com/author/rachael-bunyan/) ## Rachael Bunyan Oct 31, 2019 7:10 PM UTC It’s Halloween and Google has treated us to [another spooky interactive Doodle](https://time.com/5438751/halloween-google-doodle/). [The 2019 Halloween Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2019) offers a chance to play trick or treat without the calories. Behind orange doors, players will find animals often associated with scary movies and ghost stories, and an option to pick a trick or treat. Those risk-takers who pick “trick” will get the fun of watching a wolf play basket ball, or an owl head-bopping. The interactive is also educational. Players, on clicking “treat,” will learn facts about the featured animals—from a three-hearted octopus to a howling wolf. [Google users](https://time.com/5003440/google-doodle-halloween-2017/) are finding the interactive addictive, with some questioning the choice of characters: > [](https://twitter.com/mamaluna/status/1189880565677211650) > [](https://twitter.com/SpaceyG/status/1189879350537150467) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/"},"headline":"Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Will Teach You All Kinds of Spooky Facts About Animals","datePublished":"2019-10-31T19:10:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:00.593Z","description":"It's Halloween and Google has treated us to another spooky interactive Doodle–this one will teach you fun facts about animals.","url":"https://time.com/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","onetime","holidays 2019","Halloween 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764f562074554879/698a052009208f721f415c64/screenshot-2019-10-31-at-12.37.25.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachael Bunyan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachael-bunyan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764f562074554879/698a052009208f721f415c64/screenshot-2019-10-31-at-12.37.25.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Google celebrates Halloween 2019 with a new doodle.","caption":"Google celebrates Halloween 2019 with a new doodle.","creditText":"Google","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/5714993/google-doodle-halloween-2019/","name":"Google's 2019 Halloween Doodle Will Teach You All Kinds of Spooky Facts About Animals"}}]}] ```