{"id":5427,"date":"2026-01-14T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:58:25","slug":"google-underwater-easter-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/google-underwater-easter-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Underwater Easter Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ie-underwater\">\n<div class=\"board\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"typein\"><input id=\"uw-say\" value=\"more fish please\" aria-label=\"type a phrase\"><button class=\"tap\" id=\"uw-send\">Send it<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"readout\"><span>Fish: <b id=\"uw-n\">16<\/b><\/span><span>Bubbles: <b id=\"uw-b\">40<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<button class=\"tap\" id=\"uw-fish\">Give me more fish<\/button>\n<button class=\"tap pale\" id=\"uw-calm\">Flat water<\/button>\n<button class=\"tap pale\" id=\"uw-clear\">Start again<\/button>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>The phrase does something<\/h2>\n<p>Type more fish please into the box and send it. Fish appear. Nothing else happens, there is no counter to beat, and people have been doing it for well over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Anything with fish in it works, which is convenient, because the phrase gets typed in about nine different shapes: i want more fish, i need more fish, give me more fish, google fish please, please more fish, google more fish. All the same request.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Pushing the page under<\/h2>\n<p>Drag a block down toward the seabed and hold it. Let go and it comes up quicker than it went down, because buoyancy has been building against you the whole time you held it. Small blocks pop, big ones lumber.<\/p>\n<p>The fish move as a group. Push into the middle of a shoal and it splits, drifts, and closes again behind your cursor. They are not smart, they are just checking what their neighbours are doing.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Spelled wrong constantly<\/h2>\n<p>Google onderwater, google andar water, google under the water, google in underwater, underwater google, underwater search. The autocorrect handles all of it. Google underwater sea and google underwater gravity turn up too, usually from people trying to remember whether the one they saw had fish or just floated.<\/p>\n<p>Dry equivalents: <a href=\"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/google-float-easter-egg\/\">floating google<\/a> lifts the same layout with no water at all, and <a href=\"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/google-gravity\/\">google gravity<\/a> does the opposite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n#ie-underwater{--blue:#1558d6;--blue2:#4c86f0;--blue3:#a9c4f5;--deep:#0b3aa0;--slate:#5b6675;--mist:#98a2b3;--rule:#dde3ec;--wash:#f2f6fd;font-family:ui-sans-serif,-apple-system,\"Segoe UI\",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;color:#1a2230;line-height:1.66;margin:0 auto}\n#ie-underwater h2{font-size:25px;line-height:1.3;margin:32px 0 10px;color:var(--deep);letter-spacing:-.2px}\n#ie-underwater h3{font-size:16.5px;margin:20px 0 5px;color:#1a2230}\n#ie-underwater p{margin:0 0 14px}\n#ie-underwater ul,#ie-underwater ol{margin:0 0 15px 20px}\n#ie-underwater li{margin:6px 0}\n#ie-underwater a{color:var(--blue);text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:2px}\n#ie-underwater a:hover{color:var(--deep)}\n#ie-underwater .board{position:relative;width:100%;height:min(70vh,600px);min-height:420px;border:1px solid var(--rule);border-radius:10px;overflow:hidden;background:#fff;box-shadow:0 10px 26px rgba(21,88,214,.1);touch-action:none}\n#ie-underwater .board canvas{position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%;outline:0}\n#ie-underwater .readout{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:16px;justify-content:center;margin:12px 0 0;font:600 13px ui-sans-serif,\"Segoe UI\",Arial;color:var(--slate)}\n#ie-underwater .readout b{color:var(--deep);font-size:15px}\n#ie-underwater .row{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:9px;justify-content:center;margin:12px 0 20px}\n#ie-underwater .tap{background:var(--blue);color:#fff;border:0;border-radius:8px;padding:12px 20px;font:700 14px ui-sans-serif,\"Segoe UI\",Arial;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(21,88,214,.25)}\n#ie-underwater .tap:hover{background:var(--deep)}\n#ie-underwater .tap:active{transform:translateY(1px)}\n#ie-underwater .tap.pale{background:#fff;color:var(--blue);border:1px solid var(--blue3);box-shadow:none}\n#ie-underwater .tap.pale:hover{background:var(--wash)}\n#ie-underwater .stick{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,54px);gap:7px;justify-content:center;margin-top:10px}\n#ie-underwater .stick button{background:#fff;border:1px solid var(--blue3);color:var(--blue);border-radius:8px;height:46px;font:700 17px ui-sans-serif,Arial;cursor:pointer}\n#ie-underwater .stick button:hover{background:var(--wash)}\n#ie-underwater .stick .gap{visibility:hidden;border:0}\n#ie-underwater .curtain{position:absolute;inset:0;display:grid;place-items:center;background:rgba(255,255,255,.93);text-align:center;font:700 20px\/1.45 ui-sans-serif,\"Segoe UI\",Arial;color:var(--deep);cursor:pointer;z-index:4;padding:18px}\n#ie-underwater .curtain em{display:block;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-size:13.5px;color:var(--slate);margin-top:5px}\n#ie-underwater .typein{display:flex;gap:8px;justify-content:center;margin-top:12px;flex-wrap:wrap}\n#ie-underwater .typein input{border:1px solid var(--blue3);border-radius:8px;padding:11px 13px;font:600 14px ui-sans-serif,Arial;width:min(280px,70%);color:#1a2230}\n#ie-underwater .typein input:focus{outline:2px solid var(--blue2);outline-offset:1px}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send it Fish: 16Bubbles: 40 Give me more fish Flat water Start again The phrase does something Type more fish please into the box and send it. Fish appear. Nothing else happens, there is no counter to beat, and people have been doing it for well over a decade. Anything with fish in it works,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-easter-eggs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6139,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/6139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icon-era.com\/statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}