Mario Party Walkthrough

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Version 2 (16 April 2005)
Okay, apologies for the fact that for some time there has been a FAQ for this
game under my name that was actually for Mario Party 2 FAQ. This was caused by
my failure to label it properly. I now have this game, so here is my FAQ for it.
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Extra Note: All secret items are included in the "Secrets" section at the end
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missed something out, it is likely that it will be found in this section.
Revision History
Version 1.1 - 3 January 2005
Made a few quick changes, including the addition of Mushroom Spaces and a few
more items.
Version 2 - 16 April 2005
Updated to include a certain board  and Koopa's Bonuses.
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CONTENTS
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1) Characters
2) Mini Games
3) Spaces and Board Events
4) Boards
5) Endings
6) Mini Game Island
7) Item Shop
8) Secrets
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1) CHARACTERS
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MARIO
Mario is, obviously, the star of the game.
LUIGI
Luigi is Mario's younger brother.
PEACH
Peach, a.k.a. Princess Toadstool, is the ruler of Mushroom Kingdom.
YOSHI
Yoshi is a dinosaur, who has helped Mario in many adventures.
DONKEY KONG
Donkey Kong is a gorilla, and was the title character of Mario's first game.
WARIO
Wario is Mario's greedy rival.
The following characters appear in the game, but are not playable
BOWSER
Bowser (a.k.a. Morton Koopa) is the king of the Koopas, and frequently tries to
take over Mushroom Kingdom.
TOAD
Toad is Peach's steward. He helps you by giving you stars.
KOOPA TROOPA
Koopa Troopa is the host of all the boards and will give you coins to help you
when you pass start.
BOO
Boo is a ghost who steals items from players for other players.
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2) MINI GAMES
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2.1) 4-PLAYER
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4-Player Mini Games happen if each player is on the same coloured space (Bowser
spaces count as red; fortune and minigame spaces count as blue, while happening
spaces randomly change to red or blue). In most 4 player games, the winner(s)
will get 10 coins.
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BALLOON BURST
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Easy
Press A and Z alternately or A and B alternately, to inflate your Bowser
balloon. Don't press too rapidly, though - wait for your character to push or
pull the pump properly before pressing the next button. Get the right rhythm to
be the first to burst your balloon.
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BOMBS AWAY
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Type: Survival
Difficulty: Medium
Keep jumping to avoid the bombs fired from Bowser's pirate ship, or you will be
momentarily stunned. If you manage to survive the time, then you win coins (all
four players win coins if they all survive).
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BOX MOUNTAIN MAYHEM
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Type: Coin Collecting
Difficulty: Medium
Attack the boxes by punching (B) or hip dropping (A+Z), and quickly get the
coins (easier said than done as the opponents can get in your way). Watch out
for Thwomp Blocks, which bounce back and throw you across the room.
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BUMPER BALLS
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Type: Survival
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Use the control stick to move around and knock the other players off the
platform (if you are lucky, some computer players may knock themselves off).
Just try not to fall off yourself if an opponent dodges out of your way.
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BURIED TREASURE
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Type: Luck
Difficulty: N/A (down to luck)
Press A repeatedly to dig and use the control stick to move, and search for the
treasure chest. You will slow down slightly when digging through rocks. The
chest is hidden somewhere, randomly. If you uncover an arrow, it is pointing in
the direction of the chest.
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CAST AWAYS
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Type: Coin Collection
Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Push the control stick forward to cast your line and hopefully get one of the
items in the water, then rotate the stick to reel it in. Coins are worth one
coin, bags are worth 5 and chests worth 10. You win all the coins you reel in.
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COIN BLOCK BLITZ
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Type: Coin Collection/Luck
Difficulty: Easy
Keep jumping up and hitting the "?" blocks (nine in total) and get the coins
inside (when a coin appears above it, you get it, like in traditional Mario
games). The amount of coins in a block is random and can be anything from 1 to
10. You win all the coins you collect.
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CRAZY CUTTER
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Medium
Use the control stick to move your pneumatic drill around the fossilized
character. Make the cut as neat as possible to win (the player or players with
the highest score wins).
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FACE LIFT
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Watch the way the Bowser face is distorted, and then copy it yourself by
pressing A to grab a feature and using the control stick to move it (press A to
release and B if you want to undo that move). Points are gained by how accurate
you were, and the winner is the player with the highest score.
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GRAB BAG
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Type: Coin Stealing
Difficulty: Medium
Get behind an opponent and repeatedly press B to steal coins from their bag. If
you are grabbed, press B repeatedly to stop them taking your coins. The
difficulty here is getting behind opponents while stopping others from sneaking
up on you. In this game, the coins that you have are all the coins you have
collected so far, and coins will be added to or deducted from your total
depending on what you gained or lost in the mini game.
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HAMMER DROP
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Type: Coin Collection
Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Run around to get the coins dropped by the Hammer Brother, but avoid the
hammers and avoid running off the edge of the tower. The reason I'm listing
this as "fairly hard" is that the coins move fast, and the opponents will often
get in your way when you are trying to get to them.
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HOT BOB OMB
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Type: Sudden Death/Luck
Difficulty: N/A (mainly down to luck)
Keep pressing A to throw the Bob Omb to an opponent and use the control stick
to specify the direction. Keep passing it, and make sure you are not holding it
when it explodes. The player holding it when it explodes loses and must give
five coins to all three opponents.
N.B. In that case that the losing player does not have 15 coins, the other
players will still gain 5 coins each, but the loser will lose all the coins
they have).
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HOT ROPE JUMP
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Type: Survival
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
To beat this game, you must make 20 jumps over the podobo rope. Press A to jump
when it swings near you and watch out when it speeds up. All survivors win 10
coins.
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KEY-PA-WAY
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Type: Co-operative
Difficulty:
Keep passing the key from player to player with B to avoid the spiked koopas
getting it. If it lands on the floor, run to it fast to pick it up. Since this
involves co-operation between all four players, all four win coins if they are
successful.
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MARIO BANDSTAND
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Playing Instruments - Easy; Conducting - Effectively Luck
One player conducts with the control stick and chooses when each player plays.
If you are playing an instrument, watch for when an icon appears by your
character's face and press A when the cursor goes over it; if you are
conducting, push the control stick in the right direction at the right time.
The 10 coins go to the player(s) who performed the best.  If you happen to be
conducting, it can be very hard to win, even if you do everything right. It
seems that the conductor can only win if all the instrument players screw up (I
have often conducted perfectly and won nothing). This game would maybe have
been better as a 1 v 3 game.
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MUSHROOM MIX-UP
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Type: Quick Reaction/Survival
Difficulty: Medium
When Toad raises a flag, quickly get to the mushroom of the same colour as the
flag before the other mushrooms lower into the water. Last one standing wins,
and the longer it takes, the faster the mushrooms will move. You can also press
A to jump and A + Z to hip drop. Be careful not to confuse the two shades of
blue, or red and pink.
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MUSICAL MUSHROOM
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Type: Quick Reactions
Difficulty: Medium
When the music stops, quickly run to the centre mushroom and jump up to get the
coins before your opponents. All I can suggest is concentrate and react fast,
and don't bother with the smaller mushrooms as you will most likely leap it at
it and miss completely in your haste to beat the other players.
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PLATFORM PERIL
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Medium
Keep jumping from platform to platform with A. There are a lot of coins
littered around, but it is best to avoid being distracted by these. The winner
is the first to the goal.
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RUNNING OF THE BULB
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Type: Co-operative
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
One player has the bulb, and the other three must protect them from Boos by
punching the Boos (using B). The player with the bulb cannot attack boos.
Rescue any trapped players with B too. At the end, throw the bulb into the
socket to get rid of the boos.
In this game, all the players can win coins by making it to the end.
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SHY GUY SAYS
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Type: Quick Reaction/Survival
Difficulty: Medium
The Shy Guy will raise one of two flags, labelled A and B, and you should raise
either button A or button B, depending on which is raised. If you make a
mistake, he will take his cutlass and you will drift out to sea (and you are
out). Be careful when he raises two flags to trick you, and wait a moment to
gauge which one he will lower; don't take too long to raise a flag, though, or
you will also be out. The last one standing wins.
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SKATEBOARD SCAMPER
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Variable (depends on CPU or human opponent skill level)
Press B repeatedly to skate to avoid falling into the lava, and press A to jump
over the Thwomps. Be careful not to hit A by accident or you will waste time.
About halfway, you will see some coin bags overhead, which you can easily jump
to get (worth 5 coins). This is always very close, but the winner gets 10 coins.
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SLOT CAR DERBY
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Medium
To get around the track, hold the control stick on the straight section and let
go on the curves to stop yourself spinning out. There are four laps.
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TIPSY TOURNEY
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Your weight will tilt the picture that you are on and will help you to uncover
the picture. My usual tactic is to run to all four corners first to wipe out
the tiles on the edges before dealing with the ones in the middle.
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TREASURE DIVERS
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Type: Coin Collecting
Difficulty: Medium
Keep pressing A to swim and guide yourself with the control stick to get the
treasure from the sea bed. Larger chests contain more coins. Don't stay down
too long to avoid drowning, and avoid running into Sushi the Shark or the
Gooper Bloopers, who will try their best to get in your way, otherwise you will
drop your treasure. The game ends when all the treasure is collected, or time
is up and you win all the coins you collected.
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2.2) 1 v 3 MINIGAMES
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These are triggered if one player is on a different coloured space to the other
three players. In most cases, the single player will either win or lose 15
coins and each of the three players will win or lose 5 coins.
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BASH 'N' CASH
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Type: Single Player - Coin Protecting; Three Players - Coin Stealing
Difficulty: Single Player - Fairly Hard; Three Players - Medium
If you're the single player, keep running around and try not to let your
opponents hit you; if they do, try and grab the coins that go flying out. If
you're in the team of three, keep attacking the single player (with A) and try
and get some of their coins.
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BOWL OVER
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Type: Single Player - Coin Collecting/Stealing; Three Players - Coin Protecting
Difficulty: Single Player - Easy; Three Players - Hard
The single player has to throw the koopa shell (using A) and guide it to the
other three players, who are bowling pins. Make sure you don't hit the sides
(if so, you win nothing, but you lose nothing either). You win coins for every
pin you knock down, and if you knock down an opponent, you steal five of their
coins. If you're a skittle, don't go near the other players, and try and time a
jump right as the shell is about to hit you. Computer players have an annoying
tendency to follow you around, and you can be knocked down if another pin falls
on you. The three players cannot win any coins in this game.
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COIN BLOCK BASH
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Type: Coin Collecting
Difficulty: Medium
One player has a mallet while the other players have no weapon. The mallet can
stun opponents and break open the blocks faster, but also slows the player
down. If you have the mallet, make sure you attack players trying to beat you
to coins (A or B). The opponents can attack the player with the mallet and
knock it out of their hands, and then anyone can take it - also, they can break
the blocks by jumping (like in a traditional Mario game), but this takes longer.
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COIN SHOWER FLOWER
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Type: Coin Collecting
Difficulty: Single Player - Easy; Three Players - Hard
The single player runs around on the flower collecting coins by tilting it,
while being careful not to run around the edge. If you're one of the three
players, you will just have to collect what falls off the side by moving your
boat around. You will all coins that you collect.
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CRANE GAME
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Type: Single Player - Coin Collecting/Stealing; Three Players -
Survival/Pointless
Difficulty: Single Player - Fairly Easy; Three Players - Hard (if grabbed)
The unfairness of this game may have some players yelling at the screen. If
you're in the crane, move it around so you are above an opponent or other prize
(coin = 1 coin, bag = 5 coins, chest = 10 coins). Move so that your shadow is
directly over the target, then press A to grab it, then repeatedly press A to
move it back to the warp pipe. If you grab an opponent, you will win one third
of their coins. If you're one of the "prizes", all you can do is bash A like
crazy and hope the crane controller drops you (very hard against a computer).
Generally, computers will go for whichever of the other players has most coins
- this way you will know if you are likely to be picked on.
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PADDLE BATTLE
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Type: Coin Stealing
Difficulty: Single Player - Hard; Three Players - Easy
In order to row, you must rotate the control stick fully and quickly. You don't
need to do it too fast, though. This will push the boat over to the opponents'
side, hopefully. The single player is playing against all three others, and
therefore has a harder job. Each time a player is speared by the shy guys (by
getting too close to the bank), they lose coins - either the single player
gives a coin to each opponent, or vice versa. Coins are deducted from your
current total.
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PIPE MAZE
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Type: Single player - Observation/Luck; Three Players - Luck
Difficulty: Single player - Medium/Luck; Three Players - Luck (or Impossible if
playing against an expert)
Another gloriously unfair game, the single player will get to drop a chest of
coins down the maze of pipes. The pipes act in a similar manner to the rocket
minigames seen in some of the old Mario games, and every time one of the
vertical pipes meets a horizontal pipe, the chest will follow the horizontal
pipe and continue to fall down the next vertical pipe. If you are the single
player, bear this in mind and try and work your way up the pipes from your
character and see if you can deduce where you should drop the chest.
Here is an example below, with the lines representing pipes. If you are playing
as Mario, then you would have to drop the chest from the pipe marked "*" in
order to receive it.
*
|            |            |            |
| ---------|            | ---------|
|            |            |            |
|            |----------|             |
|            |            |----------|
|            |----------|            |
|----------|            |            |
|            |            |----------|
|            |            |            |
Mario      Luigi        Peach    Yoshi
If you're not dropping the chest, this game is pure luck.
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PIRANHA'S PURSUIT
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Type: Single Player - Survival; Three Players - Knock Out
Difficulty: Medium
In all honesty, no one has much of an advantage. If you're the single player,
keep pressing B like crazy and jump over all obstacles (including the falling
logs), and swing on the vines if possible. If you're in the team of three,
ground pound when the piranha plant is directly under the cloud to water it the
best way possible, and hopefully you will catch the single player.
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TUG O' WAR
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Type: Survival
Difficulty: Single Player - Fairly Hard; Three Players - Fairly Easy
Keep rotating the control stick as fast as you can to pull your opponent(s) off
the ledge, where they will be eaten alive by the piranha plant.
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2.3) 2 v 2 MINIGAMES
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BOBSLED RUN
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Easy
Keep pressing A repeatedly to run up with your bobsled, and then be the first
to finish; try and run over the boosters to speed yourself up and don't fall
off the edge. Computer players are always a pushover at this.
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BOMBSKETBALL
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Type: Beat Other Team
Difficulty: Medium
Keep passing to your partner with B if you have the "ball", and avoid having
the ball stolen. If you don't have the ball, try and steal it. The team who
first scores wins.
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DEEP SEA DIVERS
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Type: Coin Collecting/Co-operation
Difficulty: Fairly Easy
If you're the one diving, first of all quickly swim down to the bottom to get
the chest with 10 coins in and hopefully beat your opponent, then swim back
fast before you drown (don't worry, you get resurrected after a few moments).
Then go for the other chests; the ones to the sides, further down, have more
coins in. If you're reeling in, rotate the control stick fast when your partner
has a chest.
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DESERT DASH
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Easy
Keep pressing left and right alternately to get to the end. If you press the
wrong way, you will fall over. Don't worry too much about the Thwomp. This is
second only to Ground Pound in terms of computer player stupidity.
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HANDCAR HAVOC
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Type: Race to the Finish
Difficulty: Hard
Keep pressing A to move the handcar and when you reach a bend, lean in the
direction that you are turning, but be careful - lean too much and you will
plunge off the track to a fiery death (very annoying).
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2.4) 1 PLAYER MINIGAMES
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GHOST GUESS
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Type: Observation
Difficulty: Hard
Watch the shadows of the boos to see which one moves fast (they do so in quick
succession), and try and at least make an educated guess as to which moved
first and attack it. If you are right, you get the coins. If you are wrong, the
Boos will spirit you away to another dimension.
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GROUND POUND
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Type: Memory
Difficulty: Very Easy
Prepare yourself to double up in laughter at the pathetic efforts of the
computer players whenever they get this, as they turn it into a game of luck by
randomly ground pounding everything in sight. All you need to do is memorise
which of the posts have flat tops (easy unless someone distracts you), and then
ground pound the butterflies on top (A + Z).
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KNOCK BLOCK TOWER
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Medium
Jump (A) and kick (B) to break the wooden crates, but don't kick the Thwomps or
you will be chucked off the tower. Be careful as the Thwomps move up and down,
so timing is important, and you only have 10 seconds. Then, jump to get the
chest when it is within reach.
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LIMBO DANCE
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Type: Skill
Difficulty: Medim - Hard (varies depending on which course you are given)
Keep pressing B to make your character lean back, but don't overdo it or you
will fall over. Watch your characters getting into some really compromising
looking positions as you have to dance lower and lower. If you look as though
you are about to fall over, slow down your button tapping, and tap the button a
few times repeatedly if you look like you are going to hit the bar. Courses
vary in length; all you can do is hope you get the short course.
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MEMORY MATCH
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Type: Memory/Luck
Diffuculty: N/A (Luck-based)
Ground pound matching tiles to win coins here; memorise where each picture is
and try not to get Bowser. My advice is to start with the middle picture, then
go around the sides, in sequence, only diverting when you find where a pair is.
You get 2 coins for each pair (maximum: 8 coins).
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PEDAL POWER
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Type: Survival
Difficulty: Very Hard
This is one game you don't want the game to randomly serve up to you. Rotate
the control stick like crazy to light the room before you are caught by the Big
Boo. Even if your light looks very bright, you can still be caught out. The
only way I managed this was to use the palm of my hand to avoid slippage (this
can hurt a LOT, so try wearing a glove).
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SHELL GAME
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Type: Memory
Difficulty: Easy
Simply keep your eye on which Koopa has the treasure chest with the coins in as
they flip and spin around you. As long as nobody calls out to you and distracts
you, you should find it quite easy to keep track of them. If a human opponent
is playing this one, and you're particularly mean, you could always try
distracting them in some way.
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SLOT MACHINE
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Type: Coin Collecting/Skill
Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Carefully line up three of a kind. This can be hard because the roulettes spin
very fast. Try and figure out which item is two items before the one you are
aiming for and jump when that one comes up (easier said than done).
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TEETERING TOWERS
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Type: Reach the Goal
Difficulty: Medium
As the towers teeter, do a running jump to get to the next one BEFORE you fall
to your doom. The tower teeters depending on where you stand, so stand
somewhere where you will easily reach another tower. This can often be harder
than it looks.
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WHACK-A-PLANT
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Type: Coin Collecting
Difficulty: Very Easy
Rejoice if you get this. Scream if an opponent gets it. This is easy money;
jump on the heads of all the piranha plants you can and get a coin for each;
the numbers slowly increase from 1 to 8, and you can get many, many coins.
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3) SPACES AND BOARD EVENTS
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Blue Space
You win three coins, or six if during the last five turns
Red Space
You lose three coins, or six if during the last five turns
Happening Space
See next section for various effects
Chance Space
You can make other players give each other coins, or stars, or make them trade
coins or stars, but be careful as you could end up losing a lot of things.
Mushroom
You will either get a red mushroom (throw again) or a poison mushroom (miss a
turn).
Mini Game Space
You play a one-player mini game.
Bowser Space
You will unleash one of the following events:
Give coins to Bowser: Self-explanatory
Bowser revolution: All coins are divided equally
Bowser's Chance Time: One player must give coins to Bowser (the chances of it
being you are doubled)
Bowser Mini-Game: All four players must play to avoid losing coins
- Face Lift (any player who gets less than 90 points loses some coins)
- Bash 'n' Cash (you will be in the Bowser suit; all coins that are bashed out
of you will be lost forever; no one can collect them
- Tug o' War (you are in the Bowser suit)
- Balloon Burst (you must win to avoid losing coins)
If you land on a Bowser space with no coins, prepare to say goodbye to one of
your stars as Bowser will force you to sell it for the miserly sum of 10 coins.
If you have no stars either, he'll give you 20 coins.
Koopa Troopa
Koopa Troopa stands by the start and gives you 10 coins as you pass. There are
occasional bonuses; if you are the 10th person to pass, you get 20 coins; the
20th person to pass gets 30 coins, and so on. The coins you receive are doubled
during the last five turns.
Toad
You can buy a star if you have 20 coins or more.
Boo
Steals other players' coins for free (this costs five coins in other Mario
Parties), or stars for 50 coins.
Bowser
Bowser will usually take coins for you, rarely giving you anything in return.
He will usually charge a set amount of coins for his "services", and will take
all your coins if you don't have enough.
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4) BOARDS
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4.1 MARIO'S RAINBOW CASTLE
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A castle, set in the sky. This board is very different from the typical sort of
board that you will find in Mario Party Games. Rather than going around in
circles, you follow a single path, with only a few points where you can take
different routes (e.g. to go past the Boo). When you reach the end, ride the
cloud up to find either Toad or Bowser. Toad will give you a star, but as soon
as someone has visited Toad, he will switch with Bowser, and vice-versa.
Bowser Effect
Bowser will give you a Ztar (fake star), which is useless and costs a massive
40 coins.
Happening Spaces
Each happening space will switch Toad and Bowser around.
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4.2 DK'S JUNGLE ADVENTURE
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This game is a more traditionally-styled board; Toad will move whenever you get
the star, but Bowser remains in one spot. You can pass the Whomps by paying 10
coins and the grey slate barriers only let you past if you have 20 or more
coins (you don't pay any though).
Bowser Effect
Bowser will give you a completely worthless Golden Bowser Statue, costing 10
coins.
Happening Spaces
If a player is in the right place, a rock will chase them and any other players
in the way across the board, and they will end up at the bottom of the board,
right in the middle.
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4.3 PEACH'S BIRTHDAY CAKE
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This board is very luck-based, and you have to keep following the same path all
the time. There are a lot of happening spaces, so you will need to win a lot of
Mini Games in order to get coins. The main feature of the board is Goomba's
lottery. Pick one of four seeds and only one is a "winner". Actually, the
"prize" is being sent towards Bowser's space. All the other three send you to
Toad (who stays in the same place throughout the game). When the next player
reaches the lottery, they choose one from the remaining seeds; when all are
gone, the game restarts.
Bowser Effect
Bowser will give you a Bowser Cake, costing you 20 coins.
Happening Spaces
If you have less than 30 coins, nothing happens. If you do happen to have 30 or
more coins, you have the option of paying 30 coins for Goomba to grow a piranha
plant. When someone with a star lands there, the piranha plant will steal their
star and give it to you.
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4.4 YOSHI'S TROPICAL ISLAND
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This board consists of two islands, connected by two bridges with Thwomps on,
who you must pay to pass. The toll starts off as 1 coin, but increases by one
coin each time someone passes (you can also increase the toll yourself). Toad
will start on one of the islands, and will swap places with Bowser when a
Happening space is landed on. However, it is best just to stay on one island
rather than follow Toad around (happening space events are very frequent). Each
island has an advantage; the left hand one has Koopa, and the right hand one
has Boo.
Bowser Effect
Bowser will give you a Bowser Tube, costing 30 coins, which will burst due to
the fact that it is too small.
Happening Spaces
Bubba (the big fish from Super Mario 64) will swallow Toad and Bowser will surf
in and take his place. Bubba will spit Toad out where Bowser was previously (on
the other island).
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4.5 WARIO'S BATTLE CANYON
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This board consists of five areas, and to make things clearer I've provided a
rough diagram.
3(RED)                                4(BLUE)
BOWSER
1(RED)                                    2(BLUE)
Each of the main areas has a cannon, which you will be forced to go in when you
pass them. When you are fired, you will go to another area (the cannons in the
red areas will always fire you to the blue areas and vice-versa). The cursor
will flash randomly over the spaces and you must press A to stop it and you
will land on the space the cursor is on. This is generally luck-based, and this
board can be very unpredictable. Bowser is in the circle in the middle and is
surrounded by one