Time Crate

Time Crates are only found when time trial mode (relic race in Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart, and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled) is activated. In Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, time crates appear in Crate Smash and Crate Step bonus levels. They temporarily stop time depending on the number on the crate. These numbers vary from one to three, and in Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart, collecting all of them gives a perfect bonus of a ten second reduction.

Other Names

 * Time Boxes - Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced

Crash Team Racing
"These yellow crates appear in the Time Challenge races in Adventure Mode. Each crate will have a red number on it from 1 to 3. Hitting the Time Crate will freeze the clock for that amount of time (in seconds)."
 * Prima strategy guide

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
"Found only in Time Trial Mode, these boxes will freeze the timer for the number of seconds listed on the side."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
"Found only in Time Trial Mode, these boxes will freeze the timer for the number of seconds noted on its side."
 * Manual

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
"Found only in Time Trial Mode, these boxes will freeze the timer for the number of seconds noted on the side."
 * Manual

"When you start a Time Trial, some of the Crates in a level turn into one-, two-, or three- second Time Boxes. Hit the Box to stop the clock and give yourself a better chance at winning a Gold Relic. The Platinum Relic isn’t mentioned because winning that has nothing to do with chance."
 * Prima strategy guide

Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
"Freeze the clock (in timed levels)."
 * Manual

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot: Warped
 * Crash Team Racing
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
 * Crash Nitro Kart
 * Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
 * Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
 * Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
 * Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
 * Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!

Trivia

 * Originally, time crates were going to subtract time rather than freezing it.

Caja de tiempo Cassa tempo タイムストップばこ Caixas de Tempo Ящик времени