Google is celebrating the Lunar New Year, marking the start of the Year of the Snake with a new Google Doodle game. Here's how to play.

Today marks the start of the Lunar New Year, and Google Search has a new serpentine Doodle to mark the occasion. It looks cute, but click through for a bonus playable game of... well, you can probably guess.

The brief story glances over the mythology of Nian, a fierce beast from ancient China. It's said that the beast hated loud noises, thus the reason the Lunar New Year is packed with firey explosions in the sky of multiple colors.