Go-karts allow people to experience the thrill of driving without having to hear radio ads for pungent soaps or look at four empty seats that remind them of the time someone stole their family of mannequins. Keep thrills pure with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of racing and games at Malibu Raceway in Beaverton.
Malibu Raceway's track tests drivers' courage and precision-steering ability with half a mile of sharp turns. Visitors wielding a driver's license or those 14 and older who've completed the Malibu Raceway Car Control Clinic can fly around the course in the Indy-style Virage ($18.95 for seven laps)—powered by an 18-horsepower Briggs & Stratton, the kart can reach speeds of up to 60 mph and utilizes a fully independent wishbone suspension to help riders hug corners. Younger racerfolk can get behind the wheel of the 9-horsepower Sprint ($18.95 for seven laps) and rocket down the straightaway at 30 mph or ride along with a licensed driver in the Grand Virage ($19.95 for seven laps), a two-seater that produces twice as many windblown hairdos as the Virage.
In addition to rubber-burning excursions, Malibu Raceway offers plenty of nondriving challenges inside its game room. Patrons can stock up on tokens ($0.25 each) and play popular arcade games, shoot pool, or start an air fistfight during a round of air hockey.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Animal Sounds
Identifying animal sounds isn't just for schoolchildren and the professional hunters who capture most of the meat our nation eats today—it's a skill that might just save your life. Test your knowledge by matching the animals to their telltale noises:
The Animals
1) Dog
2) Parrot
3) Tony the Tiger
4) Dodo Bird
5) Human
The Noises
A. Er-Er-Ber
B. Cluck-Cluck
C. Argh!
D. Bow-Wow
E. They’re Grrrrreat!
The Answers
1) D Dogs go Bow-Wow. Animal behaviorists believe this signature howl is short for "Bow, humans! Wow, you're not doing it…." Dogs hate humans.
2) B Parrots go Cluck-Cluck, assuming that the parrots have been living with a chicken.
3) E Frosted Flakes' spokescat Tony the Tiger went They're Grrrrreat!, though he was recently fired after being photographed eating Cheerios in a men's hotel outside Orlando.
4) A Dodo birds went Er-Er-Ber. Or did they? We'll never know, because man hunted the flightless dodos to extinction, believing their bellies to be filled with gold. Granted, they were filled with gold, but now there's no bird-gold for the rest of us. Thanks a lot, humans.
5) C Humans go Argh! to express their innate frustration that stabbing plants doesn't cause a delicious sugary goop to come out, even though that worked once, with maple syrup.
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