Lucky You is a gambling game for Google wave which can be played for fun with friends. Participant has to bet on a number (0-9) with money he wants to bet. Gadget allows user to select a number within 30 seconds & randomly selects a number 10 seconds after that. So, user can’t make any selection in last 10 seconds. If the selected number matches with the one Gadget picks, 5 times of your bet amount will be added to your account. Every user will have $100 of fake money to start with & it changes as he wins/looses his bet.

Game Gadget URL: http://www.voizle.com/luckyyou.xml

We have already come across many robots & gadgets which lets you add polling to wave. I must say this one beats all of them! Poll Gadget lets you add/remove options & create a poll. Results will be showed as soon as somebody votes. Poll Gadget uses Google chart APIs to represent the data in different charts (Bar chart & Pie chart). “Log” shows complete history about which user voted for what. Once the polling is completed, admin (One who created the poll) can click on “Embed Charts” to show the results to other users.

Gadget XML: http://wave.samuirai.de/poll.xml

Nimbb gadget for Google wave allows user to record & share videos from webcam. Once it is added to wave, flash based gadget requests for the access to webcam. User can then record the video & stop when done. Video can be played back before saving, once saved video will be automatically made available to other participants of wave. The Gadget use Nimbb APIs to record & save the video. I don’t understand why gadget doesn’t provide video URL to share it outside wave also.

Gadget XML URL: http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/Nimbb.xml

XO5 is a variation of game tic-tac-toe on google wave. As the name itself says, ‘X’ is for first player, ‘O’ is for second player & whoever reaches 5 in a row wins!

Game gadget URL: http://dizbits.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xo5/xo5.xml

Unlike other poll/vote gadgets “Pick Several” allows  user to select multiple choices & vote. Gadget updates number of votes right away when user selects the option. This gadget is useful to run “Select all that applicable” kind of voting system.

Gadget XML: http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/pickseveral.gadget.xml

Animal Shogi (also known as Dobutsu Shogi) is the simplified version of Shogi (Japanese Chess) created to attract children to play it. To know more about the game you can check this Wikipedia entry. A gadget has been created by ANDO Yasushi to bring Animal Shogi to Google Wave. Add this gadget & start playing.

Game Gadget XML: http://apps.technohippy.net/animal-shogi/gadget.xml

Collaborative Sudoku lets wave participants to play Sudoku collaboratively! Gadgets stores user’s contribution in completing Sudoku. It keeps track of right & wrong entries made by a user & ranks a user based on that. So, it displays ranks of users playing Sudoku based on their participation. “Updates” shows whether a user filled the right or wrong number by displaying Username with +1 or -1.

Game Gadget XML URL: http://blah.appspot.com/wave/sudoku/sudoku.xml

Napkin adds free hand sketching ability to Google Wave. Participants of wave can collaboratively create “back of a napkin” sketches using Napkin. It’s fun using napkin with friends & play around with it!

Gadget XML URL: http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml

Google Wave implementation of Pick-up sticks. All the participants in a wave can play this game simultaneously. User has to remove sticks from the board to gain points. User loose points whenever he/she tries to remove sticks below other stick.

Game Gadget XML URL: http://wave.bryanbibat.com/pick-up-sticks.xml

MyTweet helps user to browse tweets of a Twitter User inside wave. Once the gadget is added, it asks for twitter username & number of tweets to load. As per the inputs, gadget loads tweets of that particular user.

Gadget XML URL: http://haru1ban-wave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter/twitter.xml