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Bolt

The SprinterPrism · from the Lantern

Unbeatable for the first two sections. There are usually five.

Bolt says“Ask me at the second boundary. After that I am not really available.”

4thChampionship
130Points
8Starts
1Win
4Podiums
3.4Avg. finish

Every race this season

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R035thlast-gasp steal
R082ndclean win
R112ndcomeback
R155thlast-gasp steal
R185thfrom dead last
R241stfrom dead last
R285thcomeback
R302ndlast-gasp steal
Latest race · Round 30Bolt finished 2nd of 6

Play as Bolt

Bolt is in nine games

Each game gives Bolt a different job. Here is what Bolt does in each one.

Coming soon Bolt inMarble Blast
Prism team powerLuckyClear a line with five Prism marbles: re-deals your pieces so they all fit, and doubles this turn’s points.
In the workshopComing soon
Coming soon Bolt inMarble Chain
Power racerPrism ZapLightning frees the 6 racers closest to the den.
In the workshopComing soon
Coming soon Bolt inMarble Post Office
HabitThe SprinterBolt shoots down the tubes one and a half times as fast. Set the levers early!
In the workshopComing soon
Coming soon Bolt inMarble Survivors
SuperLightning LapLightning chains through 18 villains, three times over.
In the workshopComing soon
Coming soon Bolt inMarble Spa
Spa guestBouncyLoves the dryer and hates the shower. “Fast first section. Then the stickers.”
In the workshopComing soon

The shard

Where Bolt comes from

A Lantern shard that got the flash — the instant the light arrives, and nothing about the part where it stays. Bolt has led more opening sections than any marble in the championship and very few closing ones.

How Bolt races

Bolt spends everything, flat out, through the first two sections, and then stops. Not fades — stops. There is no taper and nothing held back: the power ends at a fixed line on the track and afterwards Bolt is an entirely ordinary marble that happens to be a long way in front and going backwards.

The signatureTwo Sections

Everything Bolt has, spent flat across sections one and two, and then precisely nothing.

The voice

Hear Bolt

“zwee-WHEE… pfff”

The fastest thing alive for a second, then a tiny tired puff. Pick a mood and Bolt says it that way.

In the race mix: G6, 1568 Hz. A triplet at the start and then nothing. After the second section Bolt is cut from the mix entirely — the joke told a second time in sound.

Rivalry

Bolt vs Moss

Six Seconds and Twenty-Six

The same total, spent in opposite ways.

Bolt spends everything in two sections and then has nothing. Moss spends a trickle, always, and never has anything worth clipping. Over a full descent they arrive at roughly the same place having had completely different afternoons — one of them was on television for six seconds and one of them was not on television at all.

Short track: Bolt, comfortably. Long track: Moss, quietly, while nobody is watching.

2–3 in 5 meetings