Hats

Random hat icon

**Hats** are customisable items for each Kong to wear. They do not give any in-game advantage, only a brand new look to your Kong.

## Obtaining

### During a game

While playing a game with your Kong, you have a random chance to see the 'random hat'-icon flying up, similar to other power-ups such as head-starts or revives. You can collect the icon by hitting it with your Kong, dragging it into the winged hat with the question mark or shooting it right through. The equipped character will receive one random hat out of the ten possible categories.

### Prize Machine

Instead of a new Kong, a KongME item, a single or a set of power-ups or coins, the 'random hat'-icon can also occur as one of the five prizes in the Prize Machine. Just like all other prizes, if your Kong ends on the same peg as the icon, you will receive a random hat for any one of your Kongs. This does not have to be the equipped Kong, but can be any Kong of your collection.

### Shop

In the 'daily specials' compartment of the shop, there is a very common chance to get a random hat offer. The offers for hats are called 'Kong Hat!' and they cost 500 coins each. In the preview, you can see which hat you will receive for which Kong. The shop restocks every 24 hours, meaning you cannot buy more than one hat each day.

### Daily Star

If you shoot your kong to the right in the main menu, you will go to the Daily Star section. In here, you can attempt a timed course. The goal is to get to the top in the shortest time. If your time is faster than the world's average, the average of all the players that attempted the course before you, you will receive a crown for the Kong that completed the course. This is the only way to collect hats from the crown category. If the Kong you completed the course with already owned a crown, you will receive a coin prize instead.

### Seasonal

Some hats are only obtainable during specific holidays or festive events. This means they will not show up in the shop and cannot be obtained from the 'random hat'-icon in the prize machine or during the game. The Christmas hats are only obtainable during the Christmas events, starting around the 20th of December each year. The Carnival hats only pass by during the Carnaval period around the middle of Februari. Lastly, the Celebrations category is limited to special events all around the year, specifically Protostar's and Sling Kong's birthday, which take place the 25th of June and the 6th of August respectively.

## Categories

There are a total of **eleven** categories. Of these eleven, there are seven basic hats for each Kong (**Wild West**, **Sunglasses**, **Pirates**, **Career**, **Beanies**, **Mythical** and **Googly Eyes**), three hats limited to seasonal events (**Christmas**, **Carnival** and **Celebrations** (also read 'Seasonal' above)) and one hat that is obtainable only once per day (**Crown**). Each of these categories consists of multiple different hats. Which version of the category a Kong will get is selected by the designers per Kong. One Kong cannot have multiple versions of a category.

### Versions

Categories are sorted in the same order as in the game. To know which version a Kong has, you can go to their category and scroll to 'Hats', where all the categories for that collection are shown.

## Trivia

* Googly Eyes is the only category not to have different versions of hats.