Kaki Duels
Can you beat my score? Try lah.
Send someone the exact run you just drove, same traffic, same weather, same night. They open a link and drive it. No account, no download, and no waiting for anybody to come online.
"Kaki" is the local word for your regulars, the people you actually do things with. A Kaki Duel is the smallest possible version of multiplayer: you finish a run, you throw the result at somebody, and they have to answer it.
Nothing about it is live. There is no lobby, no matchmaking queue, and nobody has to be awake at the same time as you. You leave a score behind and it waits.
The link is the whole feature
When a run ends, the game draws you a brag card: your score, the level, the car you drove, and a link. Send that link to anybody, by any means you like. What happens on their end is the good part:
- The link contains the run. The level, the seed and your score all travel inside the address itself.
- They open it and the game loads that exact run with your number sitting on screen as the thing to beat.
- They need no account and no app. A challenge link works for a total stranger who has never opened the game before, on any phone or laptop with a browser.
That is why duels spread the way they do in a group chat. There is no step between "I got 48,000" and them trying it.
Same night, not just the same road
A duel rebuilds the run from the same seed you drove. The traffic that brake-checked you brake-checks them, in the same place, in the same weather, with the same hazards. It is not "here is the level, good luck", it is the identical night.
That matters because the game is built on reading traffic. Comparing two runs of the same level with different traffic is comparing two different problems.
The inbox, for the ones who do have the game
If you both play, duels get a proper home. Every score you can see on a leaderboard can be challenged, and the challenge lands in that player's Kaki Duels inbox the next time they open the game. They can answer it, or let it go.
- An inbox duel is answerable for seven days. After that it quietly expires, so nobody accumulates a guilt pile.
- A daily duel dies at Singapore midnight, with the day it belongs to. Once the Daily Challenge rolls over, that run genuinely no longer exists to replay.
- There is a cap on open duels, so nobody can bury an inbox. Answer some, or let them lapse, before sending twenty more.
- Combined boards cannot be duelled. Grand Total and Driver Rank add up your bests over time; there is no single run in them for an opponent to replay, so the game does not pretend otherwise.
What you are actually playing for
Duels keep a win and loss record, and it follows your account rather than your device. Alongside it sit the two things the game uses to say who you are:
- A driver licence card, with your display name, your rank and your record on it, drawn in the game's own pixel style.
- 46 trophies, from ordinary milestones to a few that will take a while. The Daily Challenge streak ones are the hardest honest ones.
Your rank comes from experience earned across everything you play, and it has its own global board: Driver Rank. Every finished run of every kind moves it, which is the point.
A word on display names
The game gives you an automatic name like "Player1234" and lets you change it in Settings. Whatever you pick is shown publicly next to your scores and in other people's duel inboxes, so do not put anything personal in it. Accounts are anonymous, we hold no email address for anyone, and the display name is the only handle in the whole system. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
Names that are abusive, hateful, sexual, or that impersonate someone, get changed or removed. So do scores we do not believe were driven. Both are in the Terms, and neither is a common problem.
Common questions
Does my friend need an account to accept a duel?
No. A challenge link carries the whole run inside it. They open the link, the game loads that exact level with your score to beat, and they drive. No sign-up, no download, no app on either end.
Do we have to be online at the same time?
No. Kaki Duels are asynchronous. You post a score, they beat it whenever they get to it. Nobody sits in a lobby waiting.
How long does a duel last?
A duel in your in-game inbox stays answerable for seven days. A daily challenge duel is shorter: it dies at Singapore midnight along with the day it belongs to, because after that the run no longer exists to replay.
Can I duel a stranger from the leaderboard?
Yes. Any beatable score on a leaderboard can be challenged, and the duel lands in that player's inbox. Combined boards like Grand Total cannot be duelled, because there is no single run to replay.
Is it the same run, or just the same level?
The same run. The traffic, the weather and the hazards are rebuilt from the same seed, so a duel is a fair comparison rather than two different nights on the same road.
Set a score worth sending: the How to Play guide covers combos and near-misses, which is where the big numbers come from, and the bonus modes each have a board of their own to fight over. Or just open the game and drive one.