"あなたはネズミ。 大スキなチーズを めざして ストップ&ゴー!!" "(You are a mouse. Aim for your beloved cheese. Stop & Go!!)"
— Rat Race Description (Rhythm Tengoku)
"You are a rat. She is a cat. You love cheese. We have all the ingredients of a tense encounter."
— Rat Race Description (Rhythm Heaven Megamix)
Template:Game-NavTemplate:Game-NavTemplate:Minigame infoboxRat Race (こっそりラット?, Kossori Ratto) is the 9th game in Rhythm Tengoku and the 48th game in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. It's about three rats trying to find cheese while running and hiding from Ms. Whiskers.
The three rats will be running across a very, very long kitchen table. In practice, they will give you signals when you stop behind a stack of plates, but in the real game, there are no signals (in the Megamix version, there are signals in the real game, but the brown rat will throw the stoplight away in the middle of the game). It's appearances in remixes have signals in them. There is a cat trying to catch you, and when the cat pops up, you hold A to stop behind a plate. The music will go quiet for a few seconds, and you will hear the music building up, and the rats are in a position that they're about to run. You let go of A at the right time to get a clean getaway.
Controls
Button Mode
Hold A: Stop
Release A: Go
Simple Tap Mode
Tap and Hold: Stop
Release Stylus: Go
Timing Notes
Hit: Nothing goes wrong and you get away from the cat.
Barely: You jump a little when you hide, and when you run, there is a "boing" sound. A barely counts as a hit!
Miss: You bump into one of the other two mice. When hiding, the mouse you hit moves out of position, and when running, the mouse you hit does not run momentarily, but catches up fast. If you bump into the mouse behind you too just before the cat looks around, the mouse will try to hide by curling up while sweating.
When the brown mouse throws traffic lights near the end telling the other two that they will go upwards without using them, stop at the second stock of plates perfectly to collect the star.
"あなたはネズミ。 大スキなチーズをめざして ストップ&ゴー!!" "(You are a mouse. Aim for your beloved cheese. Stop & Go!!)"
— Rat Race 2P Description
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Rat Race also appears in the 2P mode of Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade) where it is referred to as Rat Race 2P (こっそりラット 2P?, Kossori Ratto 2P). It plays the same as the 1P version, but there are twice as many rats, with both players controlling the white rats.