The Party Mode version of Mario Party LIVE includes a board, but places emphasis on the drinking and minigames. Board movement is used primarily to decide which type of minigame will be played with some bonus events from the special spaces. The goal is simply to win the most minigames. The only things to keep track of are minigames won and what turn it is.
Mario Party LIVE is a board game version of the Mario Party video game series. The gameplay of each parallel each other. The game is split into "Turns". Each turn consists of the following actions:
Player 1 rolls a die and moves that amount of spaces
Player 2 rolls a die and moves that amount of spaces
Player 3 rolls a die and moves that amount of spaces
Player 4 rolls a die and moves that amount of spaces
Play a minigame at random based on where each player lands
Each minigame is a reworked version from an existing Mario Party minigame that is played up and out of your seat as a drinking game. After the minigame is complete, the winner(s) are awarded 10 coins and the next turn begins.
The game of Mario Party LIVE is designed to be played with 4 players. There is an optional Toad Mode to include an 5th player. See more information in 'More Ways to Play'.
The object of the game is to win the most minigames. At the end of each turn, a mini game is played. Players earn 10 coins each time they win a minigame. The player with the most coins at the end of the game wins.
You can choose to play for 10, 15, or 20 turns.
Materials
The game in full can be played with a combination of various party game stuff. In order to play all aspects of the game, you will need the following materials.
Beer (cans)
Hard Liquor
Cups
Shot Glasses
Pong Balls (4)
(Different colors preferred. Otherwise, mark each ball so they are easily identifiable from each other)
Playing Cards (2 sets)
Dice (6-sided will do, but if you have a d10 - even better!)
Pen/Paper or White Board/Dry Erase Marker for tracking coins
Poker Chips (red/blue/green/black)
The following items are also necessary only for one or so minigames. The full game can still be played without these items, but certain minigames require these. In some cases, the items may also be substituted with whatever is on hand. You can also choose to simply "spin-again" for a new minigame if you do not have all the requirements.
Jack Daniels Honey (Honeycomb Havoc)
Garbage Can or Bag (Roll Call)
Bottled Beer (Move to the Music)
Musical Intsrument of any kind (Move to the Music)
Game Board
The game board is constructed using the poker chips. The red and blue poker chips serve as the red and blue spaces. Pre-made boards can be found on the Board Tab of this site or feel free to construct your own.
Game Pieces
Really anything can be used as your game pieces, but we recommend using the black poker chips. You can just mark them independently from each other with marker and tape or if you're feeling extra crafty, print out character faces and stick them to the front side of the poker chips.
Who Goes First?
Everyone rolls a die. Whoever has the highest goes first. Second highest goes second and so on.
Board Spaces
During a turn, each player will roll a dice to determine how far they move. This is done in the order determined at the beginning of the game. If a player land on a blue space, they give out 3 seconds of drinking to another player. If a player lands on a red space, they themselves drink for 3 seconds. No coins are earned or lost while moving around the board in Party Mode. At the end of the turn, a minigame is played.
Winning minigames is how you earn coins. Minigames are played at the end of a turn and the type of minigame is determined by where each player lands at the end of the turn.
Types of Minigames
The three types of minigames are 4-player, 1-vs-3, and 2-vs-2.
If all players land on the same color, a 4 player minigame is played.
If three players land on the same color, but the fourth player land on a different color, then a 1-vs-3 player minigame is played.
If two players land on blue and the other two players land on red, then a 2-vs-2 minigame is played.
How to Choose a Minigame
Which minigame to play is determined randomly.
Each of the minigame pages on this site has a spinning wheel containing the page’s type of minigame. Spin the wheel and then scroll down to whichever minigame it landed on.
(Example spinning wheel below)
Follow the links below to see each minigame page.
Minigame Rules
Each minigame pits players against each other in a unique drinking game. In some, players who do poorly are punished with drinking. In others, players win by drinking the most or the quickest. Gameplay varies. Please drink responsibly.
Refer to the minigame pages for the rules on each minigame.
Winning a Minigame
Any player who is on the winning side, whether alone or a part of a team, earns 10 coins.
Keep track of coins earned for each player. 10 coins can represented with a single tally mark for simplicity. Whoever has the most amount of coins (minigame wins) at the end of the 10, 15, or 20 turns wins.
Any combination of the following spaces can be added to the game for even more fun and possibilities.
HAPPENING SPACE
Player has to guess if the card is red or black. If player guesses correctly, they choose someone to drink for that many second. If player guesses incorrectly, that player must drink for that many seconds. If the card is red, play the minigame as if they landed on red. If black, then play as if blue.
NOTE:
Some board have additional effects for Happening Spaces. Refer to the Boards page for more information.
CHANCE TIME SPACE
Assign a number value between 1 and 6 to each player, and a number to whatever drink choices are available (chug a beer, take a shot, funnel a beer, etc). Roll first die to determine who drinks. Roll second die to determine what kind of drink. Simply roll again if you get an unassigned number.
Draw card from the deck to determine what color the player is for the minigame (if the card is red, the player is red - if the card is black, the player is blue).
BOO SPACE
Player who passes/lands on Boo can choose an opponent to make drink. Players must arm wrestle. The victim player must drink for as many seconds as it takes for them to best the initial player. Caps at 23 second. If victim player loses, must drink full 23 seconds.
NOTE:
There are two ways you can decide to add a Boo Space to your game.
If you have a complex game board with multiple paths, have it so that simply passing Boo let's you take advantage of it. Also this won't count as a space in terms of your dice roll so you wouldn't ever actually land on it.
The other way to play is to treat it as a space and only let you use Boo if the player lands on it. This works better for simpler game boards that are just a circle. In this scenario, you can treat it as you would a green for deciding minigames.
BOWSER SPACE
Player draws a card for themselves and a card for Bowser. If the suits match, Bowser runs away. If not, the suit of the Bowser card determines what happens…
♡ Lose 10 coins (One mini game win)
♢ Drink 10 sec (Number Card =Player, Face=Everyone)
♤ Take a shot (Number Card=Player, Face=Everyone)
♧ Bowser Minigame (Roll die to determine)
Bowser Minigames include…
BOWSER’s Big Blast (4 Player) if dice roll is even
Ride the BOWSER Bus (1 Player) if dice roll is odd
These mini games do not count toward mini game wins.
KOOPA BANK SPACE
Place an empty cup near this space at the start of the game. Any time a player passes over this space, have them pour a little bit of their personal drink into the cup and continue moving forward. If a player lands on the space, they must chug whatever is in the cup.
If the cup reaches capacity, simply add another empty cup to the bank.
Draw card from the deck to determine what color the player is for the minigame (if the card is red, the player is red - if the card is black, the player is blue).
Toad Mode completely changes the parameters of the game, allowing the addition of a fifth player. This fifth player acts as the game-master and has a lot of flexibility in the way they can add to the game.
The game-master will take on the role of Toad to referee when necessary and keep the game moving along. The game-master has the power to manipulate events of the game to keep things interesting such as revealing hidden blocks that contain coins or seconds of drinking to give out, rewarding players. The game-master can change the rules to their liking when 5 turns are remaining.
The game-master can also act as a punisher to players by also taking the role of Bowser - showing up when they please to wreak havoc. The game-master can also sub in for other characters such as Boo. In this case, if someone passes Boo, instead of arm wrestling a player themselves, they would choose an opponent to take on the game-master.
Toad can also mitigate the setup of some minigames such as BOWSER's Big Blast, being the one to shuffle the shot glasses.
