Even Google can’t pass up a joke on April Fool’s Day. To commemorate the popular jokester holiday, Google has introduced a Pokémon Challenge.
The tech company started the tech world’s annual round of April Day gags with the challenge reported The Sydney Morning Herald.
Google’s announced the update to the iPhone and Android forms of Google Maps with the challenge through their LatLong blog on Monday. The challenge allows users to users on Google Maps to catch all the Pokémon. Using the app, participants can start the challenge by tapping the search bar at the top of the screen. As a result a Pokeball figure will appear allowing people to start the competition.
This latest game is apart of Google’s fake search to find the Pokémon Master.
April 2 is the deadline to apply to the challenge and follows in Google’s long-standing tradition of doing April’s Fools jokes.
In addition to jokes, Google recently celebrated International Women’s Day with a Doodle video as previously reported.