Kart Chaos

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A browser kart racer with one shared time trial a day: same track, same kart, best lap time wins.

Every day: One Daily Challenge a day, the same for everyone: a set track, racer and kart, three laps with three mushrooms and no items. Race it as often as you like; your best 3-lap time goes on today's board. New puzzle: Midnight UTC.

Play Kart Chaos on kartchaos.com

Kart Chaos is a free 3D kart racing game that runs in the browser on a computer or phone. Each day its Daily Challenge sets one track, racer and kart for everyone, and your best three-lap time is ranked on the day's board. Around it sit a five-track cup, single races, ghost time trials and online races with friends.

About Kart Chaos

Kart Chaos is a cartoon kart racer played in a web browser, with no download. It runs with a keyboard, a gamepad or touch controls on a phone, and it has the things kart racing fans expect: drifting that builds sparks into a mini-turbo, a rocket start off the countdown, ramp tricks for a landing boost, coins that raise your top speed and item boxes with bananas and red shells.

The daily part is the Daily Challenge. Each day it picks one track, one racer and one kart and engine class, the same for every player. The race is three laps with three mushroom boosts and no items, so nothing random decides it: it comes down to your line, your drifts and when you spend the mushrooms. You can race it as many times as you want, and only your best three-lap time counts on the day's board. A new challenge starts at midnight UTC, and the menu keeps a daily streak.

Outside the daily race there is the Chamo Cup, a Grand Prix over five tracks against computer racers, Versus for a single race on any track with your own rules, Time Trial against your own ghost, and Online, where you can join a quick public race or open a private room and share its code with friends. You can edit your racer and kart and share a result card after a race.

It suits anyone who likes short arcade races and chasing a better time, and the fixed daily setup makes it a fair contest between friends who all drive the same kart on the same day.

How to play Kart Chaos

Open kartchaos.com and press Start.
Choose Daily Challenge from the menu to see today's track, racer and kart.
Type the name you want on the boards and press Race.
Accelerate with Up or W, steer with Left and Right or A and D, or drag the pad on a phone.
Hold Space or Shift while turning to drift, and let go when the sparks change colour for a mini-turbo.
Use your three mushrooms with E or X where a boost gains the most time.
Finish three laps, then race again if you like: your best time stays on today's board.

Screenshots

Kart Chaos title art with eight cartoon racers in their karts on the starting grid

The Kart Chaos Daily Challenge screen for Saturday, Oct 17: Cactus Canyon with the racer Momo, 150cc, 3 laps, and the rule that a new challenge starts at midnight UTC

Tips

Hold accelerate just as the countdown turns from 2 to 1 for a rocket start; pressing during the 3 stalls you.
Hold a drift until the sparks reach orange or purple before letting go for a longer boost.
Tap drift right after leaving a ramp for a landing boost.
Save a mushroom for a long straight or a corner you can cut on the grass.
Try the interactive tutorial from How to Play if you are new: it covers drifting, mini-turbos and ramp tricks in about two minutes.