Mario Kart Tour New Year’s Tour Challenges List: Koopaling, T Course, Kadomatsu, Driver with a Ribbon, and More

Mario Kart Tour’s New Year’s Tour has kicked off, and with it a bunch of challenges that you can complete to earn Grand Stars, which, in turn, provide you with a bunch of rewards as you progress throughout the Tour.

We want to help you complete the challenges as quickly as possible, so we’ve included a list of them below along with instructions on how to complete them.

Looking for more Mario Kart Tour content? Check out everything else we’ve written in our Complete Guide.

Mario Kart Tour New Year’s Tour Challenges List

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• Do 20 Jump Boosts: Complete the Do Jump Boosts challenge in the Koopa Troopa Cup to make this challenge a lot easier.
• Land 5 hits with Red Shells: Use a glider with the Red Shell Plus Special Skill with a driver on their favoured course to make this challenge a lot easier.
• Hit a kadomatsu with an item 5 times: Kadomatsu are a brand new decoration in Mario Kart Tour that look a bit like a decorated tree. You can find them on most maps, so this challenge shouldn’t be too difficult. Simply hit them with a projectile like a shell, fire flower, or boomerang.
• Earn a score of 6,000 or higher using a Koopaling driver: Play as a Koopaling driver on their favoured course. Koopaling drivers include:
  • Iggy
  • Larry
  • Lemmy
  • Ludwig
  • Morton
  • Roy
  • Wendy
• Land 10 hits on opponents with Bob-ombs using a driver with a mustache: This challenge is easiest with Mario (Happi) and a glider with the Bob-omb Plus Special Skill. You can perform it over numerous races. Drivers with mustaches include:
  • Mario
  • Luigi
  • Wario
  • Waluigi
  • Metal Mario
  • Mario (Musician)
  • Mario (Hakama)
  • Mario (Santa)
  • Mario (Happi)
  • Waluigi (Bus Driver)
• Take out 5 Sidesteppers: Sidesteppers are crabs, and you can find them on Koopa Troopa Beach and Cheep Cheep Lagoon. Take them out by driving into them or using a projectile item against them.
• Pick up 5 dropped mushrooms using a driver with a ribbon: This is easiest with Peachette, who can fire a bunch of dropped mushrooms out of a cannon. Drivers with ribbons include:
  • Wendy
  • Birdo
  • Peachette
• Get a Fantastic combo a total of 10 times: A Fantastic combo is a combo of at least nine different actions. You can perform this over numerous races so just let it complete in the background.
• Clear all of the cups in the New Year’s Tour: Finish every single race and challenge in the New Year’s Tour. You don’t have to get five stars in every single one.

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• Do 3 Rocket Starts: You can perform this over numerous races. Simply tap and hold the screen as soon as the 2 appears onscreen just before the race to perform a Rocket Start.
• Collect a total of 100 coins: You can perform this over numerous races. To make this easier, use a driver with the Coin Box Special Skill and a glider with Coin Plus.
• Land 10 hits with Bananas: You can perform this over numerous races. Use a driver with Triple Banana or Giant Banana Special Skill and a glider with Banana Plus.
• Use Lightning: Use a glider with Lightning Plus and try and sit back in eighth place to increase your chances of getting Lightning.
• Earn a score of 8,000 or higher on a T course: A T course is easy to find – it has a T at the end of the name. It’s basically a tricky variant of the usual course, so it should actually be fairly easy to get a score of 8,000 or higher provided you perform tricks at every opportunity.
• Get 1st place in a race 3 times in a row: Play on 50cc to make this challenge a lot easier.
• Earn a score of 5,000 or higher using a driver wearing gloves: Try and use a driver, glider, and kart on its favoured course to ensure you get a high enough score. Drivers wearing gloves include:
  • Dry Bones
  • Mario
  • Princess Peach
  • Daisy
  • Luigi
  • Wario
  • Waluigi
  • Metal Mario
  • Peachette
  • Mario (Musician)
  • Mario (Hakama)
  • Mario (Santa)
  • Daisy (Holiday Cheer)
  • Pauline (Party Time)
  • Mario (Happi)
  • Waluigi (Bus Driver)
• Take out 3 Thwomps: You’ll find Thwomps on Bowser’s Castle levels. To take them out, hit them with an item like Bowser’s Shell or Bullet Bill, or drive into them while you’re in Frenzy Mode.
• Hit a kadomatsu with an item 3 times in a single race: Kadomatsu is a traditional Japanese New Year’s decoration that you’ll find on the new Tokyo Blur 2 track and its R and T variants. Use a driver with a Special Skill like Triple Green Shells, Triple Red Shells, or Double Bob-ombs – anything that’s a projectile.

Gold Challenges

• Do 20 Ultra Mini-Turbo boosts: You can perform this over numerous races. Drift until the sparks under your kart turn pink to perform an Ultra Mini-Turbo boost.
• Use a Bullet Bill 3 times: You can perform this over numerous races. To make it easier, use a glider with the Bullet Bill Plus Special Skill and try and sit in eighth place to increase your chances of getting a Bullet Bill.
• Get 1st place in a 200cc race 3 times: You can perform this over numerous races. Just play in 200cc mode until this is completed.
• Land 3 hits with Green Shells in a single race: Use a driver with the Triple Green Shells Special Skill and a glider with Green Shell Plus and play on a long course to make this challenge easier.
• Earn a score of 9,000 or higher using a driver with a hat: Play with an eligible driver on their favoured courses to increase your chances of getting a high score, and try and finish first. Drivers with a hat include:
  • Baby Mario
  • Baby Luigi
  • Mario
  • Luigi
  • Diddy Kong
  • Wario
  • Waluigi
  • Red Koopa (Freerunning)
  • Metal Mario
  • Mario (Musician)
  • Rosalina (Halloween)
  • Peach (Vacation)
  • Mario (Santa)
  • Toad (Party Time)
  • Shy Guy (Pastry Chef)
  • Waluigi (Bus Driver)
  • Gold Koopa (Freerunning)
• Cause an opponent to crash while gliding: The easiest way to complete this challenge is to save a Red Shell for when you glide and fire it at the driver in front of you when gliding.
• Land 5 hits with fireballs: You can perform this over numerous races. Drivers with fireballs include:
  • Mario
  • Luigi
  • Red Koopa (Freerunning)
  • Metal Mario
  • Mario (Santa)
• Get 1st place without crashing: Play on 50cc and hold onto protective items. It might be worth turning off Auto-items for the purposes of this challenge.
• Glide a total distance of 5,000: This can be performed over numerous races. This isn’t a particularly difficult challenge, so just work on it in the background.

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