In the main menu, the small yellow note slips determine number and type of players in a game. By tapping on them, you can choose a human player, a robot or a remote player who uses his own device with a copy of a current Dash Race version. If you want to use Gamecenter you should also read more information here. If a color should not be used in a game, just choose the empty note.

For human players, you can type a name by tapping on the pencil right to the note (except for your Gamecenter player, which always has the fixed name you chose for it).

Tapping on the pile of track sheets opens a selector from which you can choose the desired track for the next race.

When you click Go the game starts. If you have chosen Gamecenter players, you will first enter the usual Gamecenter dialog to invite them now. See here for details.

In the start screen you can choose the game mode and the choice of turn sequence. Classic Mode is the very basic way of playing. It exactly resembles the paper game: the first to cross the finish line is the winner. Challenge Mode brings some additional thrill to that by introducing a clever scoring system that will reward quick decisions through a time bonus and additional points for all sorts of cool driving behavior like mean blocks, scary scratches etc. — let us surprise you! The winner will be the player that scores the most overall points in the end (including a generous bonus for passing the finish line first, of course).

As turn-sequence you can choose the regular variant of round-robin turns with the same player sequence for each round. Or you choose an additional thrill by selecting a random sequence. For each round it will be randomly choosen in which sequence the players turns take place. Of course it will still be each players turn exactly once per round, but it will be up to Dame Fortune to decide when. This requires nerves of steel, and the tide can quickly turn if the odds are with or against your thoroughly laid out driving strategy.

As a variation you can choose a triangle pattern as grid. This requires a totally different driving strategy. You have less adjacent fields to choose from, and the whole curving behavior changes. As an additional thrill, you can make the chosen grid invisible and rely completely on your intuition when estimating the track ahead of you.

If there is any statistical data available, you can optionally choose to show a ghost-track of the latest race you had on this track. It will show all the moves of the previous race so that you can optimize your driving style now.

Tapping on the wrench symbol will open a slip for some settings. You can enter a default name that will be used as a suggestion for the first name being entered for human players, as well as being the name used if you take part in a wireless game with multiple devices. This will be set to the name of your Gamecenter-player automatically for you if you are logged on, and can't be changed then.

Furthermore you can choose a default setting for how voice chat is initially handled if you are invited by others via Gamecenter. Check here for more details.

You can rename the robots, and choose between the regular crosses for the track, or different markers (which is ideal for color blinds). Other settings, e.g. for music, should be self-explanatory. Hint: to listen to your own iPod music you need to switch off the Dash Race tunes.