Worst Mario Party Minigames

The Top Ten
1 Tug o' War - Mario Party

Even worse, it even made the headlines of how Nintendo was forced to offer Mario Party gloves to prevent any further cuts, blisters and lacerations. There should have been Paddle Battle and Pedal Power up there at the same rate as Tug o' War. I am not paying for surgery now!

You have either 2 options. 1, gently move the joystick so that you have a chance, despite getting #Rekt or 2, AAHHH MY HAND! and win the minigame. I earned those 5 coins bro. I can use that to pay for the surgery. or 3, be like me and use the hand startegy but with the nintendo 64 controller on the ground and move the controller fast. Why didn't anyone think of that? #ImAGenious

Oh no, This is my hated one,
Pretend you are playing it and then I can't go harder because I got hurt with blisters. And Cpu don't care and just repeatly does it. You are just 1 weak Bowser overpowered by 3 cpus set on easy. And you lose 20 coins (you have 20 coins) and it divides and gives it to them

This minigame isn't inherently bad. It was just cursed to be controlled with the N64 joystick. On its own, it's decent. Better to rotate the stick than to mash a button like an idiot

2 Flip the Chimp - Mario Party 8

The concept in this game is good but sadly the window of time moving the chimp is terrible so is the motion controls, the controls just don't work, when you flip your wii remote if flips the chimp 1 second after you just did it, maybe if the camera was zoomed out a bit more maybe this minigame could've been saved but sadly its not, if you want a good version of Flip the Chimp just play Vine Country from Mario Party 7.

The problem with this challenge is that there is a small time window between moving the controller to one side and the monkey actually changing, and you can get hit easily within that time frame, making this game very difficult to play, let alone win. I'd take a luck based minigame over this any day of the week.

The controls suck, and the computer wins easily because it's programmed to dodge all the coconuts without getting hit once. Just turn off the T.V. and start a new game. Sure this method of skipping this god awful minigame is extremely time consuming, but it's totally worth avoiding playing this terrible game!

Wii remote didn't have precision. This is why everybody hates this minigame.
Nintendo can just make Ukiki sweep Left and right with the pad, not with MOTION CONTROLS!

3 Heat Stroke - Mario Party 5

This mini game is not fun. The team of 3 have nearly no chance of winning. The solo player almost always win. It’s hard to react to hammer swings. If you jump during fake swing, you may mess up. Around 3rd or 4th layer, fireballs will drop. Touch them, you’re gone. The only way for 3 players to win was for solo player to fake swing on purpose for whole time like an idiot. Overall, not fun for your 3 guests.

You know how Cash bash is known for being incredibally one-sided against the 1 player? That 1 player wants his revenge. And he WILL get that with Heat Stroke. Be honest, has ANYONE ever won this as the 3 player?!

I actually disagree with this minigame in this list. This minigame is very good, why everybody hates this? Even if it's more weighted on the solo player, it's good.

People say that Crane Game from Mario Party 2 was way too heavily weighted on the one player? Oh, they haven't played this minigame yet!

4 Get a Rope - Mario Party 5

Well, I don't like any of the luck-based mini-games but some of them are a little more exciting. This is so boring. I have played Mario Party 1,2,3,4,5 and this is the worst mini-game of them all.

At least Tug O War was a creative minigame. This one is unoriginal and completely luck based. When I think Mario Party I don't think picking ropes and seeing who wins.

Do what the title says, GET A ROPE. You either survive or get crushed by a 100 pound (or ton I dunno) weight

Not only do luck-based mini games require luck (obviously), most of them are lazily made.

5 Crane Game - Mario Party 1 & 2

This minigame is so blatantly against the three players, there's no hope of winning if you you're one of the three stooges, which, come to think of it, is how most of the 1v3 minigames are.

The dolls also look dumb because of their black eyes. If you see this game turn off your console pick up the cartridge and throw it away

In Mario Party 1,it's good because you can stand a chance against the solo player!
In Mario Party 2,it's just impossible to win in the team...

It's like heat stroke when it comes to the odds of winning as the three. Pretty much impossible.

6 Pitfall & Get a Rope - Mario Party 5&6
7 Slot Car Derby - Mario Party 1 & 2

This wasn't a great game in Mario Party but I wouldn't say it's Top 10 worst.

I love this one! It's hard, but I have so many memories.

This was easy and fun and if you hate this, get good

This. Game. Sucks. Hard to handle!

8 Cheep Cheep Sweep - Mario Party 4
9 Right Oar Left - Mario Party 4

Worse control than some of marioparty 8's minigames. and that was when companies looked at the wii and said, " WE NEED TO MAKE EVERY SINGLE THING WITHOUT PRESSING ANY BUTTONS! "

I HATE IT

first there's a question of control I can't CONTROL THIS

Second where the heck am I going? Just horrible for such a great game

This is the worst minigame of existence. It was boring and uninteresting and I always lost and almost broke my GC controller

Its mediocre at best but if you are a skilled player its not so bad

10 Honeycomb Havoc - Mario Party 2

I like this one, I don't get why people hate it it's so easy. I'm able to quickly screw people over in this and it's so funny. I just count ahead and figure out every option quickly so I can basically control the flow of the minigame.

I really liked this game. It was a simple yet effective and intense minigame that really required you to strategize and think.

To be honest I don't get the hate for this minigame everyone says it's luck based but it's really not if you use your brain and have a stradedy you can almost always win thb

I like this one but is unfair I mean REALLY unfair.

The Contenders
11 Bash N' Cash - Mario Party 1

If you're in first and you're forced to play this minigame, you'll drift down to the low ranks and your reputation will be ruined. Good luck getting back in first.

I think the point of this minigame is actually to screw the solo player so.. I think it does a good job at it!

If you're the 1 player against the three, this game will suck for you!

Wearing a Bowser suit is your death sentence. There’s nothing you can do to defend yourself. You are at the mercy of 3 other players. Good luck trying not to get hit.

12 Wingin' It - Mario Party 7

This game is just lazy, you have 10 seconds to mash the A button. that's it

13 Bowser Toss - Mario Party 3

The controls of this minigame are so hard!
Really tough to have a nice score..

Never mention it,
NEVER Mention It!
When I was in Story mode. In Battle royal and duel maps.
That minigame WAS so hard to win in it.
I every time lose coins with that minigame.

14 Vicious Vending - Mario Party 5
15 Candlelight Fight - Mario Party 4

I gotta admit my favorite mario party is the 4th but it is 99.99% good cause this minigame. The minigame is unplayable

16 Get the Lead Out - Mario Party DS

This is one of the most challenging games. My best is almost 20 inches and I look at the records and the staff (who created the game) best is more than twice my personal best.

I hate this mini game seriously are the other characters on drugs

No matter what, you will never manage to the 20 centimeters

When you land on a duel space and you get this minigame and the com is on drugs.

17 Rudder Madness - Mario Party 8

I won every time, because I did nothing, I gave up

"YOU'RE TOO SLOW! " - Sonic & every other person who played this minigame.

Will this minigame exciting and have fast gameplay! OH BOY...what the hell is this minigame...

Sonic disapproves

18 Pedal Power - Mario Party 1

Want blisters? Play this. Even Chuck Norris got blisters from it.

This is impossible

19 Trace Cadets - Mario Party DS

I have been playing Mario party DS for years now and this is the one mini game that I can't beat. The directions don't help either. It's impossible to draw the shapes

I've played Mario Party for years and this and Get the Lead out are the worst. This is a bigger offender because of how hard it is and how the directions don't help.

A very hard minigame: all minigames that involve Art are rubbish

The worst of the game.

20 Trick or Tree - Mario Party 6

Oh god this game stinks it is complete luck

Oh,another of this minigame where you need to follow the path of the right item?
WRONG,just random based...

21 Pizza Me, Mario - Mario Party 9

That's not enough people. & besides, Rosalina was supposed to replace Princess Peach since Peach always sucks at all Mario Parties.

What is this here?! Our entire family loves it. Whats wrong with Ya!?

This made me hungry,but the game is pretty short and easy,But I gotta say it's great,I don't know why is this on the list

So you say this minigame sucks because Rosalina is not playable in this game?
Well,that's retarded.

22 Cut from the Team - Mario Party 8

This one is just cheap. Sometimes it just decides to launch 3 people in one go on the first try and lets one person win by doing nothing. Case in point I was playing this one with my mum one time. Me as Wario went first, gets launched on the first try, my mum as Boo went next, she gets launched on the first try, then it was CPU Daisy and she gets launched first try so stupid CPU Luigi got a cheap ass easy win by doing nothing.
Even Bowser's Big Blast was fairer then this!

In my opinion, the worst of the luck based minigames in Mario Party 8. The others were more interesting in what happens - in one you hope to blast your opponent into the next county, while the other was an interesting RPG card battle - but this one...you just cut ropes and hope not to get launched into oblivion. It's not as entertaining.

Easily the worst battle mini-game in the game. You can easily miss the string you want, and you can get launched from the start. How is that fair?

Like Pier Pressure.. Stupid and unoriginal and unfair!

23 Pitfall - Mario Party 6

Like Pick A Rope but at least, there's not a player who have the unfair advantage to pick a rope first...

24 The Beat Goes On - Mario Party 3

The beat can go on and on, you could spend a good 5 minuites on this, as a matter of fact, if you all memorize a long thing, you don't get ANY coins.

The name is incredibly fitting. The beat goes on and on and on for about five minutes. The only way to get through this thing quickly is to just throw the game. Something that no minigame has made me stoop to. Also if two or more people make it to the end after memorizing a 20 beat song you get a draw and no coins for it.

Like the title says it goes on forever. One of the most boring Mario Party mini games in the series.

UGH this is boring...i'm NEAR THE END! Wait...DRAW!? 5 minutes wasted just for no coins. More like the beat drags on.

25 Pit or Platter - Mario Party 9

Its WAY to hard because you have to balance a ball using motion controls.

I hate this with a burning passion

I agree DumbWays2DieFan. It is really hard AND really boring. I mean, I almost always lose. I tend to like easy minigames more than hard minigames.

I couldn't agree more.

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