Clash Karts

Kart battles on a sunny beach for up to eight players, free in your browser on a computer or a phone. No download, no account needed, nothing to buy.

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Big Wave Beach

Every match is fought on Big Wave Beach, a seaside boardwalk at golden hour with a giant cartoon wave hanging over the sea. The arena is 100 metres across and mostly open sand: the landmarks sit round the edge and the middle is left for driving. In the middle stands the Sandcastle Mound, a plateau with a sandcastle keep on top whose sand sides slope all the way round, so you can drive up it from anywhere. Along the sea wall runs a boardwalk lined with beach huts, and round the rest of the beach you will find an ice-cream van, a lifeguard tower you can drive under, cabanas, a fairground booth with a strength tester, a rock pool under two palms and a half-buried rowboat to jump off. Sixteen item boxes and eight ramps are spread across the sand.

The beach is full of things to wreck. Beach balls fly off anything that touches them, sandcastles burst into sand when a kart ploughs through them fast, parasols topple and skid away, the bolted-down bins barely budge (which makes them good cover) and fireworks crates go up in a burst of rockets when they break. Weapons blow them apart too, and whatever is smashed comes back a little later.

How a match goes

A match lasts three minutes. Drive through an item box, use what it gives you on the karts around you, and keep out of the way of whatever they send back. Every kart has 100 health: lose it all and you are wrecked, and back on the sand three seconds later. There is no drift button. Turn hard at speed and the kart slides wide with its nose in, carving tyre marks into the sand.

Four modes

The modes guide explains the scoring and how to win each one.

Nine silly weapons

Item boxes hand out plunger rockets, a fan of three rubber ducks, a seagull that homes in on the rival ahead of you, a gumball gatling, whoopee cushions to drop behind you, a bubble bath that blocks damage for five seconds, hot sauce for fire breath and a burst of speed, a burp that blasts every kart near you away and, rarely, a grand piano lobbed in an arc. You carry one at a time, and everything but the bubble bath and the hot sauce rides on your kart where your rivals can see it coming. The items guide covers each one and how to dodge it.

Six racers

A baby who benches fridges, a grandad in driving goggles, a shouting chef, a sewer-plumber alligator, a lost alien and a bingo-champion nana. They all drive the same beach buggy in their own colours, with the same speed, grip and health, so the choice is only about who you want to be. Their stories, and the paints and hats each of them can wear, are on the racers page.

Play your way

New here? How to play has the controls, the rewards and tips, and the FAQ answers the common questions.

Latest updates

Everything that has changed is on the updates page.