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Duck Race
A cheerful race on the river: players pick a duck and tap their phones to swim faster — or run it as a lucky draw.
What is Duck Race?
A Duck Race is a light-hearted race for your whole audience. Every player picks one of 42 racers — rubber ducks in costumes (pirate, viking, wizard, astronaut…), a mallard, a duckling, swans, a penguin and even flamingo and unicorn pool floats — and joins the race on the river. With audience boost on, players tap their phones as fast as they can to make their duck swim faster and whoever is in front when time runs out wins. With boost off, the winner is picked at random — a fun way to run a raffle or a lucky draw.
Presenter creates the slide Click Present Share code / QR Audience enters code Respond & submit Real-time results
Create a Duck Race slide
- 1On Home, click + Create new presentation (or add a slide to an existing one).
- 2In Choose Slide Type, pick Duck Race. You can also type it into Search slide types….
- 3The slide is created and the right panel opens on the Content tab.
Set up the content
- 1Click New Slide, open the Games tab and choose Duck Race.
- 2Set the Race Duration in seconds (at least 5; 15–30 seconds works well).
- 3Turn Let the audience boost on for a tapping race, or off for a random-winner draw. New Duck Race slides start with it on.
- 4Pick a Theme: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Lunar New Year, Christmas or Halloween.
- 5Present the slide, let everyone join and pick a duck, then press GO (or Enter).
Duck Race settings
Race Duration (seconds)
How long the race lasts. The finish line arrives exactly when the time runs out.
Let the audience boost
On: players tap their phones to swim faster and the leader at the buzzer wins. Off: the winner is picked at random (great for a lucky draw) and phones just show the race status.
Theme
Seven seasonal looks for the river, from spring blossom to a Halloween night.
Present & share the join code
- 1Click Present in the top bar to put the slide on the big screen.
- 2A join code and a QR code appear (e.g.
36Y56). - 3Participants open the Audience app at join.engageslide.com, type the code and press Enter — or simply scan the QR.
- 4When everyone has joined, the responses start flowing in live.
How the audience responds
Players join with your code, pick one of 42 racers (or tap Random duck) and enter their name — they can switch duck until the race starts. During a boost race the phone shows a big TAP TO SWIM! button with their live rank (for example #1 of 5). When the race ends every phone shows You won! or the place they finished.
View results
The racers paddle along the river leaving a foam wake, with slips, spins, dives, wing-flapping bursts and the odd bump into a lily pad. In a boost race the fastest tappers get speed streaks and flap their wings. The last metres play in slow motion while the camera zooms onto the leader; the leader crosses the finish line with a splash and a burst of confetti and a WINNER! card shows their duck, name and — in a boost race — how many times they tapped. Press AGAIN to race again.
real screenshots
Frequently asked
How is the winner decided?
With audience boost on, whoever has swum furthest when time runs out wins — tapping faster makes your duck faster. With boost off, the winner is picked at random.
Can I use it as a raffle or lucky draw?
Yes. Turn Let the audience boost off: everyone who joins gets a duck and the winner is random, so it is fair for everyone.
Can players cheat with an auto-clicker?
No. Taps are capped at about 13 per second, so very fast tapping beyond that does not help.
Does it use quiz scores?
No. Duck Race is a standalone game. Use a Leaderboard slide to show quiz scores.