google gravity black hole
PULL off SWALLOWED 0 STILL OUT 0
open the hole, then drag it around the sheet

One point on the page and everything ends up in it

The hole is a cut in the paper. It turns, slowly, and anything within reach starts drifting toward the middle. Nothing falls straight in. Everything arrives on a curve, tightening as it gets closer, until it’s small enough to slip through and it’s gone.

Distance matters more than you’d expect. Something sitting near the edge takes ages to move at all, then accelerates hard over the last stretch.

ONEOpen it. A spiral opens near the middle of the sheet and the pull switches on at a low setting.
TWODrag the hole itself. Grab the middle and move it anywhere. Things chase it as it goes.
THREEFling something past it. Throw a word across the sheet and watch it bend around instead of going straight.
FOURWiden the pull when you want the whole page gone in about four seconds.

orbits

If you throw something sideways at the right speed it circles instead of falling in. Getting one to hold an orbit for a few laps is fiddly and it’s easily the best thing here. Too slow and it spirals in, too fast and it slings off toward the corner.

getting it back

Everything that goes in is kept. The spit button fires the whole lot back out from the centre in a scattered burst, and they land wherever they land. Flatten puts the page back the way it started, in the original layout, hole closed.

the wide setting

Roughly triples the reach and doubles the strength. At that setting there’s no escaping from anywhere on the sheet and the entire page is gone before you can grab anything, which is the point of having it as a separate button.

related ways to lose a page

The upright version is google gravity, where things fall to the floor and stay there for you to throw around. floating google reverses it and sends everything up instead.

For a page that disappears without any physics at all, thanos snap dusts half the results in one go. google fan uses air rather than gravity and blows the letters clean out of frame.

And google matrix dissolves the page into falling characters, which is the same idea handled as rain rather than a drain.

Sheldon has spent over a decade immersed in retro gaming, from NES classics to arcade gems. He's deeply passionate about preserving gaming history and helping others rediscover these timeless titles. When he's not gaming, Shaun writes about the evolution of video games and their cultural impact.