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Google Doodle of Roswell anniversary is a point-and-click adventure

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Falling down the hole with the plant must be an homage to E.T. on the Atari 2600. :)

That's the first thing I thought! it was kind of weird to get deja-vu from something I experienced when I was a kid.

I immediatly thought of Knytt (http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt), a free indie platformer that also features a spaceship crash, scattered parts, and an interesting atmosphere.

You can use your nuclear gasoline on the horse. It's useless. But fun!

If you haven't already recovered the ring, the giant horse will knock it down :P

Haven't found a use for the giant cow or giant chicken though...

Is there any use for the feather?

You tickle the sleeping guy with it to retrieve the bottom part of the spaceship.

Alternatively you ring the door bell a few times!

Here you can see all the things you need to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWkQL2QP_4#at=122. Enjoy!

SPOILER:

Use the gas on the tree outside the house with the woman, climb up it, tickle her with the feather and take the shiny thing she's holding to win the game.

She randomly dropped it when the bean stalk grew for me.

The cow eats the grass above the hole.

Shish2k is talking about the giant cow (after you use the nuclear gasoline on her)

What horse? I only found the cow..

here http://i.imgur.com/wyXapT3.png

There are multiple paths to victory. Several more than what's been listed in the comments so far. Explore and play with it!

No keyboard controls!

I love that there are multiple ways to complete this!

Ever since the PRISM revelations, I feel uneasy whenever I see "Google" in the headlines. Even if it's just a harmless doodle, I'm reminded of their partnership with NSA.

Sigh. Google does not have a "partnership" with the NSA. They give the NSA data when they are required to do so by law. The problem is the law, which should be changed.

It doesn't work that way. "The government told me to do it" is an excuse that died with the Nazis during the Nuremberg trails. As a civilization, humanity has generally agreed that doing something evil because you were told to do it by the "law" is not even close to an okay excuse.

And you can't see a difference between genocide and sharing some user data? Everyday I read something along the lines of "Google has an ethical responsibility to do X" and it's getting tiresome. It's absurd to demand a company to jeopardize its entire business because you don't agree with the morality of the law in question.

Godwin's law fulfilled.

The difference is that you voluntarily offered google your data; those who were enslaved and slaughtered like animals by proxies of the state couldn't simply subsist under the duckduckgo regime instead.

If this were a matter of true evil instead of obscene hyperbole then people would actually stop using google instead of apathetically sojourning into your figurative google gas chamber.

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

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