Grid is Good

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Grid is Good
Grid is Good
Appears in Mario Party: Island Tour
Type General minigame
Time limit 10 seconds per round
Music track Think carefully! (NTSC)/Think Carefully! (PAL)
Music sample

Grid is Good (known as Points Pile-Up in the British English version) is a General minigame from Mario Party: Island Tour.

Overview[edit]

Players use the trominoes in the left box and put them on the board. After 10 seconds, the trominoes where the players placed them are revealed one by one. The numbers that were claimed by two or more players are burned out, and the players are awarded points based on the numbers on the spaces only they claimed. The player that has the most points at the end of three rounds wins.

The grid changes size depending on the amount of players in the game.

  • 4 players — 4×4 grid
  • 3 players — 4×3 grid
  • 2 players — 3×3 grid

Controls[edit]

  • Stylus – Drag and drop panels

In-game text[edit]

  • Rules – American English: "Place one of your shapes on the board to claim a set of numbers. You'll win points for the numbers you claimed that weren't also claimed by your opponents."
  • Rules – British English: "Place a panel over the numbers to win points. You'll only get the points if your rivals didn't also try to claim the same numbers you did!"

Naming[edit]

The American name "Grid is Good" is a pun on the catchphrase "Greed is good," which is based on the longer phrase from the 1987 film Wall Street.

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNote(s)Ref.
Japaneseパネルをかさねるな！
Paneru o kasaneru na!		Panel Pile-Up![1]
DutchCijferstrijdNumber Battle[1]
French (Canada)Lignes de compteAccount lines (also a French expression meaning "Getting important")[1]
French (Europe)[1]
GermanZiffernknobelnNumber Toss[1]
ItalianBattaglia matematicaMathematic battle[1]
Korean패널 독점왕
Paeneol Dokjjeomwang		Panel Monopoly King[1]
Portuguese (Europe)Contas CruzadasCrossed Calculations[1]
RussianЦифроведы
Tsifrovedy		From цифровой (tsifrovoy, "digital", "relating to numbers")[1]
Spanish (Latin America)Panel aritméticoArithmetic Panel[1]
Spanish (Europe)Encaje numéricoNumerical Match[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k In-game name from Mario Party: Island Tour (stored internally as mg_inst_mg3405_0001 in message file mg_inst.msbt in archive languages/[language].zdat).
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Minigames from Mario Party: Island Tour
General minigames Amp My Style • Blown Hover • Bob-omb Aplomb • Bumper Thumper • Buzz a Fuzzy • Cannonball! • Cheep Diamonds • Cheepers Keepers • Claiming the Cube • Color Correction • Color Me Fast • Deck Hunt • Diamond a Dozen • Drive for Show • Fisticlouds • Flip Out • Fuel Me Once • Garden of Eatin' • Get Reel • Git Along, Goomba • Go with the Floe • Goomba to Maneuver • Great Bars of Fire • Grid is Good • Gyro for the Gold • Hare Today • Helter Shellter • Hide 'n' Splat • Hop Till You Drop • Horror Harriers • Kabob and Weave • Mad Ladders • Magmathon • Match Faker • Meteor Melee • Mild Gunman • Musical Snares • No-Traction Action • Pachinko Wizard • Paddle Skedaddle • Peep a Peepa • Point 'n' Shoot • Pokey Corral • Pool Buoy • Puzzle Pronto • Quickest Cricket • Rat-a-tat Flat • Rope a Slope • Shrub Hubbub • Sky'd and Seek • Slip Not • Slip 'n' Slip • Slow G • Slow Glide • Spin and Bear It • Spin the Bubble • Squish You Were Here • Starring Artist • Stretch Run • Sub Trouble • Tanks a Lot • Tap Dash • Tile Savvy • Top This • Tragic Carpet Ride • Trounce 'n' Bounce • Truckin' and Cluckin' • Utter Nonsense • Xylophone Home
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Puzzle minigames Emergency Hexit • Emergency Hexit - Multiplayer • Star Turn • Three House • Three House - Multiplayer
Extra minigames The Choicest Voice • Ka-Goomba! • Sinking Feeling • Sinking Feeling - Multiplayer
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