DELHI DINO

FAQ

What is Delhi Dino?

Delhi Dino is a free online dino game in the style of the T-Rex runner Chrome shows when your internet drops. Instead of cacti there are Delhi Police barricades, and instead of running from nothing, your runner chases two politicians who keep sprinting away. It is political satire in pixel form, made by adz_25.

How do I play?

Press Space or the Up arrow, or tap the screen, to jump. Clear the yellow barricades, close the gap, and reach 1000 points to catch up. It runs in any modern browser on desktop or phone, with nothing to install.

What are Easy, Medium and Hard?

Easy starts slower, tops out at a lower speed and spaces barricades further apart. Medium is the classic run. Hard starts fast, gets faster, uses more of the tall ROAD CLOSED barricades and, for journalists, sends police in more often. Each difficulty keeps its own best score.

How does the leaderboard work?

Sign in with your email to post your runs. Each player's best run per difficulty appears on the global board with their display name and country flag. Runs are ranked by points, and ties at 1000 go to whoever got there faster.

Is any of this real?

No. Nothing in the game depicts a real event. The barricades, the chase, the speech bubbles, the GOTCHA ending and the super-cape are all jokes. The game does not claim that anyone named here did, said or had anything done to them. It is commentary, not reporting.

Who are the runners?

Like chromedino.com lets you swap the dinosaur for other characters, this version lets you run as the dino or as a cast of pixel avatars named after public figures and creators: Neha Bora, Rahul Gandhi, Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh, plus a journalists' bench of KK, Samdish Bhatia, Peek TV, Rana Ayyub and Peeing Human. The sprites are 16-pixel-wide stick figures with a name tag, not likenesses. None of these people made, approved or endorsed the game.

Why does Neha Bora get a cape?

Her runner has a special power: SANGATHAN (organising). Where most runners are "detained" the moment they hit a barricade, Neha gets three chances to rally — supporters appear, the group regroups in an orderly line, and the run continues from the barricade. The cape is the joke made visible: the superpower here is getting people organised, not flying.

What do the journalists do?

They run with a camera and a PRESS PASS: barricades don't stop them, because reporting is their job. What does stop them is a Delhi Police constable who runs in every so often with a STOP hand. Jump over him and the "● REC" light stays on; get caught and he seizes a camera with a line like "Permission hai?". Three cameras, then the run ends with REPORTING STOPPED. That is the joke, and the point. Peeing Human is drawn as an anonymous hoodie on purpose.

Who are the two people running away?

Pixel caricatures of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, in the tradition of newspaper cartoons. They are never hurt: when you reach 1000 points they topple over and your runner says "GOTCHA." That's the whole catch.

What do you store about me?

Nothing, unless you sign in or send feedback. Signing in stores your email (for login), a display name, your country and your scores. Feedback stores what you write and is emailed to the site's creator. Your best scores on this device are kept in your browser's local storage.

Why Delhi Police barricades?

Because the yellow "DELHI POLICE" barricade is the city's most recognisable piece of street furniture, and because satire works best with real props and imaginary events. Police characters only ever appear as background figures or obstacles; nothing in the game lets you attack anyone.

Is Delhi Dino affiliated with Google?

No. Delhi Dino is an independent parody of the Chrome offline game. The sprites and code are original.