I wasn't above squeezing an occasional round of Doom in between study sessions in college, and am certainly not shy about catching some Pokemon if any are lurking in my office (that's a no). 
But if I have a particularly busy workday and want to kill 30 seconds before entering a meeting, or want to keep my attention focused during a meeting, Google's got my back with some sweet search engine Easter eggs. They just added a new one. It rhymes with "digit sinner."

Fidget Spinner

The latest edition to Google's list of Easter eggs is the iconic fidget spinner , now digitized for your perpetually spinning pleasure. Searching for "spinner" and clicking the toy makes it spin in your browser window; you can spin it with your finger on your smartphone, too. There's also the option to change the fidget spinner to a numerical spinning wheel if you need a random number from one to twenty. You can't modify any colors, but then again if it were any more interactive you'd probably waste even more time.

Tic-Tac-Toe

Enter " tic tac toe " for Google's take on the two-person board game. You can futz with the three difficulty settings and, if you're sitting next to an equally unproductive coworker, compete against them on the same machine in two-player mode.

Pac-man

Appearing as a Google doodle in 2010, searching for " Pac-man " will bring up a playable version of the game in your browser. Instead of the traditional layout of pac-man games past, the field of play spells out, of course, Google.

Solitaire

I'm not exactly sure how Microsoft doesn't have a patent on every implementation of the classic card game solitaire , but Google's version (search for "solitaire," of course) offers two difficulty settings as well as a timer, score, and number of moves made.

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