Mario Kart World's 394 P-Switches Spell Out A Secret Message

An eagle-eyed fan 🐬seems to have figured out the very cute reason why the game has such an oddly specific number of P-Switches.

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, which act🅷 as fun little challenges away from all of the main races. There's an unbelievable number of P-Switches to be found and completed in Mario Kart World, and the specifඣic number might actually be an easter egg of its own.

Mario Kart World Has 394 P-Switches, And There Might Be A Good Reason For That

You'll Need To Know Two Languages to Get It, Though

, which is very odd indeed. Although you could, like me, just assume that was all Nintendo had ti🅠me for or t෴hat the open-world only suited that many, .

, Redditor Greatꦫ_Staff6797 recently posted on the Mario Kart World subreddit to share their theory regarding the number of P-Switches. According to them, the numbers three and nine in ♏Japanese are spoken like "san" and "kyuu", which read like "thank you" when spoken together.

If you combine those three an🐈d nine numbers with the number four (which stands for, of course, "for"), and then assume that the P in P-Switches stands for "playing", then you get a secret, cute message from tꦆhe developers - Thank you for playing.

It's just a theory right now since no Nintendo developers have 𝔍jumped up to confirm it, but it does sound pretty on the mark considering . It would also explain why the number of P-Switches is so strange in Mario Kart World.