Bolt inMarble Sort
Bolt
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.”
Every race this season
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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.
Bolt inMarble Sort
Bolt inAngry Marble
Bolt inTilt
Bolt inMarbledoku
Bolt inMarble Blast
Bolt inMarble Chain
Bolt inMarble Post Office
Bolt inMarble Survivors
Bolt inMarble Spa
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.
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
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 meetingsThe team
Prism, from the Lantern
Chaos, brightly lit.