Changelog

• A 100 m course for a result in about ten seconds, beside 300, 600 and 900 m (still as fair: see the fairness test).
• Racers and spectators: a room can let players race a duck, just watch and chat, or choose; doors that open at a set time; how many race and how many watch, at a glance.
• The race on every phone: players watch the race live on their phones, chat beside it, see the winner when the host stops it, and watch the host’s slow-motion replay of the finish with them.
• Tidier rooms: players who close the page are shown as away, then offline, and are let go after a while (they can join again in one tap); a random card style beside the random name; a three-second count before the host’s Start, so every phone is ready.
• A cleaner race screen on a phone held sideways, and a brand assets page.

Random Duck Race, rebuilt from the water up.

• A 3D river race for up to 1,000 ducks: currents, rapids and slipstreams, a camera that follows the leaders, farms, woods, ponds and grazing herds along the banks, and the same chance for every duck (the fairness test runs the game’s real physics).
• 199 duck skins in four themes, or your own picks (a random mix, or a duck for each name); day, dusk or night; 300, 600 or 900 m; name tags for the top 5, 10 or 20.
• Names your way: paste up to 1,000, import a CSV or Excel file, Quick fill, and up to 100 saved lists.
• Results: a referee-style slow-motion replay of the finish (VAR), run by itself for a photo finish; your own message under the winner’s name, on a card in one of eight looks; every time and gap, a result image, an Excel download and your last 100 races; take the winner — or several finishers — out and race again.
• Rooms: players join on their phones with a QR code or a PIN, pick a name and a duck, chat, react and follow the race live; the host can race a duck of their own, approves, locks and moderates, can hand the room to any player between races, and can set a start time (change it, pause it, play it on).
• Share and embed: short links with a QR code, ready-written posts and an embed builder with a live preview, for your own site.
• 16 languages, each with its own home page (see them all), and optional sign-in with Google.
• A site to explore: the blog and guides, the duck gallery, screenshots, contact, feedback and cookie settings.

• Share links now use is.gd instead of TinyURL for faster, more reliable short links.
• All duck images updated from 2D to 3D renders, giving the app a fresh, modern look.
• All 184 duck skins look more realistic and detailed.

• Share links can be shortened with TinyURL, with a QR code for quick scanning.

• Fixed winner messages that couldn’t be customised in fullscreen mode.

• Drag-and-drop import of participant names from CSV or Excel files.
• Better rendering of long duck names, with cleaner truncation.
• Different winner messages depending on whether your favourite duck wins.
• Fixed the racetrack background after leaving the fullscreen gallery, sound settings not always applying, and the Settings reset button.

• Import participant names from CSV or Excel files.
• Ocean Waves became the default race track background.
• Fixed control buttons overflowing on short race tracks.

• Custom winner messages (Settings › Results).

• Highlights for the top 3 ducks, with the rest of the field softened for easier leader tracking.
• Links to our Facebook and X pages in the footer.
• Fixed the race sound looping after the finish.
• v1.0.5.1: Effect Mode was taken out for further work.

• The race track adapts fully to any screen width and height.
• Choices when a list exceeds 100 ducks: keep the first 100, pick 100 at random, or a custom number.
• The fairness test page, to check the long-term fairness of the race over thousands of simulated races.
• 21 new duck skins, with clearer skin names for searching.
• Fixed the congratulations sound on Safari (iOS).

• Track and skin pickers with pages and search; slightly bigger ducks; livelier Start Race button.
• The Stop button shows a randomized final result.
• Fixed choosing English and a missing logo.

• Advanced Entries mode: random skins or your own images per duck.
• A Christmas race track with falling snow.
• Faster loading and improved duck movement.

• Shuffle names, random duck skins and A→Z sorting.
• 18 race track backgrounds and 141 duck skins.
• Fullscreen mode, and Pause, Resume and Stop during a race.

• Up to 100 ducks per race, in 14 languages.
• Speed, race duration, auto-remove the winner and auto-shuffle settings; sound volume.
• Save, load and share a race configuration.
• Two race modes: Original and Effects.