Best Mario Party Minigames Of All Time, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• Mario Party has been pumping out new games for almost three decades, giving us hundreds of minigames in that time.
• Minigames are either free-for-all styles where everyone plays for themselves, team games, or even battle games to keep your own money at the end.
• There are plenty of minigame styles in the Mario Party series, but these are our picks for some of the best, most of which you can find in Mario Party’s greatest hits games – Nintendo agrees!

The Mario Party series has been ongoing since 1998. After almost 30 years of party games with some of the best Nintendo characters, it’s no wonder people have found their favorites! Each new entry in the Mario Party series brings dozens of new minigames and sometimes even revamped versions of old classics.

Whether it’s every player for themselves, everyone versus you, team games, or one of several other minigame types, there have been plenty of awesome offerings from the Mario Party titles over almost three decades! The following minigames, in particular, are a blast to play with friends time and time again.

Updated on November 3, 2024, by PJ Molloy: Super Mario Party Jamboree is finally out, bringing a ton of exciting new minigames for you and your friends to play. It was tough narrowing it down to just a few, but we’ve updated the list with the very best minigames from the plumber’s latest party.

14

Prime Cut

A Strategic Co-Op Minigame

Prime Cut takes a break from the usual chaotic, fast-paced gameplay for a slower and more strategic minigame. You and a partner must work together to cut three giant steaks into two even halves. As the food gets stranger in shape, you and your team must act quickly to determine which angle to make the slice.

This minigame not only tests your proportional thinking, but also your ability to communicate with your teammate. Try to envision what each half would look like side by side, and do your best to think outside the box when dealing with the weirder shapes.

13

Rosalina’s Radical Race

A Thrilling Race Through Space

Super Mario Party Jamboree has plenty of fun minigames, but Rosalina’s Radical Race is the cream of the crop. It starts with a sled race down a snowy mountain. You can leap off ramps, perform some cool midair stunts, and even bump into your opponents to throw them off balance.

Things get even better during the second half when you and your foes are transported to Rainbow Road for a race through Outer Space. It’s a blast from start to finish and even makes excellent use of the Joy-Con’s motion controls.

12

Stamp Out

Battle Your Friends In A Colorful Turf War

Stamp Out places you and three others in a colorful turf war. Each person is given a giant stamp to maneuver. The goal is to hop across the screen and coat as much of the ground as possible in your color.

If you’ve played Splatoon, this minigame has a similar vibe. It’s a ton of fun to paint over your friends’ tracks and get in their way when they try to retaliate. Remember to keep an eye on your opponents and look out for any blank spots on the stage.

11

Dungeon Duos

Work With Your Team To Escape An Obstacle Course

Dungeon Duos is arguably the most beloved minigame from Mario Party 4, and there are no complaints here. Two teams are dropped in a treacherous dungeon and must race to the escape balloon. You and your partner need to work together to open doors, rotate moving platforms, and navigate the perplexing warp pipe maze.

This minigame is famous for requiring equal effort from both team members. Each person must have good communication, speed, and timing if you want to score a victory. Be prepared for a ton of laughter and maybe a bit of screaming, too.

10

Messy Memory

Get Ready To Test Your Memory

Let’s hope your memory is good because you’ll need it for this minigame. In Messy Memory, you must organize ten items on two rows of shelving. The catch? You only get a few seconds in the beginning to memorize where everything goes.

After that time, many of the items fall off the shelf, and you earn a point for each one you replace in the correct spot. A few objects stay on the shelf, which act as free points, but the bulk comes from remembering where things went.

Whatever method works for you in remembering is valid! I try to group like-things, such as all the hats, all the foods, etc.

9

Parasol Plummet

A Race To Grab As Many Coins As Possible

Coin free-for-all games are literally game changers if you’re falling behind your opponents and the star is only a dice roll or two away. In Parasol Plummet, you and your three competitors fall from the skies with only parasols to slow your descent.

As you plummet, single coins, money bags, and plenty of hammers rain down on you and your opponents. Everyone gets as many coins as they can gather, so the faster and more crafty you are in your movements, the more you’ll walk away with in the end.

8

Crazy Cutters

Try To Stay Within The Lines

A minigame that’s come up plenty throughout the Mario Party series, Crazy Cutters is something of a legend. You’re given the outline of one of several different Mario characters – most of them enemies – and it’s your job to trace their outline.

The catch is that you must do this in stone, and your cutting method is with a jackhammer. Larger characters are at something of a disadvantage with more of their screen obstructed, but whoever’s outline is the most accurate wins the coins in the end.

It’s best to push when you have more intricate lines to cover and pull vague shapes. For example, when it’s a Chain Chomp, I start with their teeth – where you need to be more precise – and then go back up their back – which is rounder and less precise.

7

Trace Race

Grab A Crayon And Start Drawing

When Trace Race first begins, you have a few seconds to overview what your line looks like. Once the game itself starts, it’s up to you to carefully retrace over the colorful line in front of you with an oversized crayon.

There are plenty of sharp spikes and loops that require you to double back on yourself. Plus, you need to contend with the camera moving ever forward, pushing you along if you dare to venture too far back for the sake of care. Whoever traces the most of the line wins.

6

Eatsa Pizza

A Delicious Co-Op Minigame

Easily one of the most iconic co-op minigames, Eatsa Pizza is all about working together to eat half a giant pizza pie. How you divide and conquer is up to you and your teammate (hopefully, they’re human – PC players are often tough to work with).

The key to remember with Eatsa Pizza is that different toppings and parts of the pizza take more time to eat. Unsurprisingly, the crust is one of the tougher parts, but the pepperoni slices are all pretty thick as well.

5

Coney Island

Catch The Falling Ice Cream Scoops

Here’s another food-based minigame to make you hungry. In Coney Island, it’s time for dessert. You begin with an empty ice cream cone, and by following the shadows on the ground, you use it to collect ice cream falling from the skies.

Things get heated as everyone’s ice cream cones get taller and taller, quickly obstructing the ground and making it tougher to see the shadows of the scoops falling. Build up the best, fullest cone to win!

4

Snowball Summit

An Intense Snowball Fight

Some of the best Mario Party minigames are the ones where you can outright bully your friends and the PC players, and Snowball Summit is one of the best. Everyone begins in their own corner of a mountaintop, and then it’s time to battle.

Smash the buttons as quickly as you can to form a snowball, and tactfully move across the mountaintop to build it up. Throwing your built-up snowballs at your enemies will knock them back, with bigger snowballs knocking you back further. Knock everyone else off the mountain and be the last one standing to win.

3

Rockin’ Raceway

A Thrilling Horse Race

Rockin’ Raceway is another one that’s been brought back plenty of times, and for great reason: it’s a top-tier sports minigame. The goal here is to ride hobbyhorses carefully and quickly around the racetrack, with two options: to speed up or spin out along the way.

You need to be tactful with how fast you are since you have a limited number of carrots displayed in your corner of the screen that shows how much power you’ve got left. Carefully power your way around the track, grab the quick carrot boosts, and be the first to cross the finish line.

2

Face-Lift

The Goofiest Mario Party Minigame

Whether it’s a Battle Game, a Bowser Game, or a regular four-player option, Face Lift is easily one of the funniest Mario Party minigames of all time. You see a character’s face come on screen first, but it’s quickly stretched and smooshed in every direction.

Then, it’s up to you to recreate the new face you’ve been shown. Pay attention to cheeks, jaw, eyebrows, and more because you’ll earn points for how close you are to the remixed image. Whoever’s closest to the stretched version wins.

1

Slaparazzi

Fight Your Friends For A Place In The Spotlight

Slaparazzi is one of the most amusing Mario Party games of all time. There were earlier iterations of the game in previous entries in the series, but why take only one silly photo when you can take several throughout the game?

You’ll notice cameras pop up along the outside of the ring area where you and your competitors are trapped. It’s up to you to slap, kick, and ground-pound your way to being the most prominent face in the finishing shot. The best part of the photos is usually seeing who’s being beaten up in the background!