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Google Maps Have Turned The Entire World Into A Giant Game Of Pac-Man For April Fools’ Day

You weren't planning on getting anything done today, right?

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Google have taken a leaf out of John Oliver’s book, and rather than use their immense power to play a mean (and potentially quite damaging, given said power) prank on everyone, have used this April Fools’ Day to do something fun: namely, create a Maps option that lets you turn any cityscape into a Pac-Man game and go hog-wild.

Here’s Parliament House in Canberra:

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And here’s a Pac-Manified Times Square!

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Just go to Google Maps, find an area with enough roads, click the Pac-Man icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen, and call in sick to work today with some creative disease.