The game is a variant on Chutes and Ladders set in the Wacky Races environment. Players roll dice to move generic plastic cars (not miniatures/replicas) around the board, which represents a racing track with a number of side routes which can bring you from being in the lead to being well behind if you are side-tracked. Cards are drawn from a stack featuring images of Wacky Races cars. Players must collect four car cards and land exactly on the finish line to win (which means that you usually complete several circuits of the track). Car cards can be lost if players draw the Mean Machine card. The stack of draw cards also feature event descriptions and commands which make you miss turns, take alternate routes, or go forward or backward several spaces.