Best Minigames in Mario Party 9-10

By far one of the greatest Mario Party minigames of all time. It's not that it's super complex or interesting, just the fact that the execution of this simple yet addictive course is marvelous! You must press the correct buttons to get on top, similarly to Domino Effect in Mario Party DS. In fact, it's pretty much the same thing except better graphics, music, and that you climb up a peak and not jump over dominos. It's also shorter, which makes it more replayable to get the best high-score possible, as it doesn't take as much time to restart. Overall, Peak Precision is absolutely amazing!

Probably one of the best minigames when it comes to RNG-ones. In fact it's probably my favourite luck-based minigame of all time, up there with Cardiators. Basically it's a card game and you can pick between "You, All, Rivals, 1st and Last". Depending on which card you pick, one of you will get points, and it can range from anywhere to 1 to 3. Basically, get 10 to win (pun intended). It's by far one of the most interesting RNG minigames (and even then some cards can be easily followed when they are scrambled in the beginning). The music helps too as it's really competitive and always keeps you on your toes.

By far the best boss minigame. As the boss battle of Boo's Horror Castle, the battle is set in a chamber in a spooky castle, and it's basically a puzzle. Lots of skill is required as you move around items on a giant panel and you must get three in a row in order to damage him. At times, there will lightning bolts and moving them in a three in a row will give you ten points, but at the same time make your rivals lose ten points. I love this type of gameplay, especially for a boss battle. The soundtracks do not disappoint either. In fact, they are both amazing. The first phase has a sorta spooky but calm theme, very good. The mad phase is one of the best songs in the game. It's like that one, but way more upbeat and chaotic, it's almost as if the world is ending. That's how crazy it is. And I love the theme.

What's that, an actually GOOD motion-controlled minigame? That's right, Pit or Platter nails in the motion controls category, and it feels absolutely natural to tilt, unlike SOME other minigames *cough*, Rumble Ruins, *cough*. Basically you must balance a ball on a disc and get it to touch certain parts of the disk that shines to get points. I hated this minigame as a kid, but I've grown to really love it overtime, especially after other worse motion-controlled minigames. It's really satisfying when you especially do nail points..., I just really love this one.

Oh yeah, I absolutely adore this minigame! It's easy, but the journey is incredibly amazing nevertheless and just the entire concept is so as well. You must find the house where a Toad is hiding in, and you get to see it in the intro cutscene, and then you need to find it yourself somewhere. I really like how big and inter-active this minigame is..., it really forces you to think about what you saw in the intro and then looking at where you are now. It's definitely one of the best minigames.

Overall Meanie Match is easily my favourite minigame, thanks to how skillfull and addictive it is at the same time. Enemies are standing on a few spots in a circle and after a few seconds you must memorize where each enemy stood and the last player without making any errors wins. It's just a really great minigame that really does test your memorization skill more than any other minigame. Even I find it to be a bit of a challenge, and I love it!

Who doesn't love Pizza? None! So who doesn't love a minigame based on pizza? Here all of you must make a pizza and each player must throw their respective toppings onto the pizza, and whoever throws them on each slice first wins. It's such a stupid idea, but such a fun one in execution. Why not just put the topping gently on the pizza? But this is why I love the minigame, plus it's addictive!

I figured out I might as well add one extras mode minigame, that being Badminton Bash, because it's just that great! Badminton is one of my favourite sports, and seeing such an underrated gem of an activity brought to Mario Party just puts a smile onto my face. It plays exactly like you expect it too as well. No complex new additional rules..., just normal badminton. I LOVE IT!

This is the most unique minigame on the list! The entire level is a conveyor and the player must choose to right one to get to a pipe to get to another right conveyor until you're in the middle. Yeah it's really fun and unique, and I wouldn't see why anyone wouldn't love it. Why isn't it in the top three? Well, it's a little too easy once you figure out which way to go, but either way it's great!

If you remember Skyjinks from Mario Party 9, well this is the same thing except instead of platforms you walk on snake-blocks, and that just makes it a lot better automatically, as there's more skill involved in not falling off these, in contrast to say just making jumps from platform to platform.