The Christmas duck race

Snow on the pines, lights on the trees and Santa’s sleigh crossing the sky. Random Duck Race has a Christmas scenery: the same free, fair duck race, run on a snowy Christmas Eve. Type the names, and the river picks who opens the first present, who buys the coffee and who gets the Secret Santa draw.

From 1 November to the end of December everyone starts in the Christmas scenery automatically, with Santa Claus ducks. Any other time of year, pick it yourself in two clicks.

Start a Christmas race in three steps

1. Add the names. Type or paste them, one per line: your class, your family, your office party. Up to 1,000 names fit in one race.
2. Pick the Christmas scenery. Press the scenery button at the top of the screen and choose Christmas. In November and December it is already picked for you.
3. Press Continue, then Start. The ducks line up on the pontoon, the countdown runs, and the river picks the winner, with the full finishing order on the result screen.

What’s in the Christmas scenery

• A snowy evening: the blue hour over white fields and snowy mountains, the stars out and snow falling all through the race.
• The far bank: pines under snow, big Christmas trees with twinkling lights and a star on top, log cabins with lit windows, snowmen, reindeer, candy canes and piles of presents.
• Santa’s sleigh, flying across the sky with his reindeer, Rudolph’s nose included.
• A Christmas start line: presents, a little tree, a sled, a snowman and candles on the pontoon.
• Christmas hoardings along the course: Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho!, Happy Holidays and Jolly duck race.
• Its own music, Sleigh Bells: Jingle Bells with bells and a glockenspiel, unless you picked another track in Settings.

Ideas for Christmas

• Secret Santa order. Race everyone once: the finishing order is who picks a name first. For the pairs themselves, use the team generator with teams of two.
• Who opens the first present? Let the river settle it at the family table, with the race on the TV.
• A class Christmas quiz. Race the class list to pick who answers next, or race the teams for the prize. More in 10 classroom ideas.
• The office party draw. Who wins the prize, who sings first, who brings the cake next year. Put it on the big screen and let phones join by QR code.
• A Christmas giveaway. Paste the entries and draw the winner live on your stream or page.
• Family and pets. With Faces and Photos the whole family, the dog included, can race as themselves.