Logger Heads

Logger Heads
Mario Party 9 Mario Party: The Top 100
Appears in	Mario Party 9 Mario Party: The Top 100
Type	Free-for-All mini-game
Music	Can You Do It?

Logger Heads is a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party 9, and returns in Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name is a pun on "loggerhead", a former term for a stupid person.

Introduction

The players approach the stump and lift their axes in preparation.

Gameplay

Players try to be the first to split the log that Whittle puts on the trunk in half by quickly moving the Wii Remote.

Occasionally, the Whittle may put a Bob-omb on the stump instead of a log, and players must press to duck. Failing to do so or chopping the Bob-omb results in players being stunned for the next round. The first player to get three points wins, and the game will immediately end; this means that the other players will be ranked, based on how many logs they've chopped.

In Perspective Mode, players view the minigame from behind their character.

Like 10 to Win, Snow Go, and Pizza Me, Mario, this minigame ends when one player reaches the goal.

Controls

Mario Party 9

• "Hold the Wii Remote vertically. Swing the Wii Remote downward to chop with your ax. When a Bob-omb appears, press and hold to duck and avoid the explosion."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Swing axe
• Hold : Take cover

In-game text

Mario Party 9

• Rules – "Use your ax to be the first to split the logs placed in front of you. Look out for Bob-ombs that explode if you hit them by mistake!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Be the first to chop 3 logs, but if you see a Bob-omb, take cover!"
• On-screen – "Be the first to chop 3 logs!"

Gallery

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  Perspective Mode version

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  A Bob-omb in the mini-game

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	まきわりNo.1 Makiwari nanbā wan	Wood-Splitting No. 1
Spanish	¡Leña al leño!	Thrash the logs!
French	Bûches et embûches	Logs and ambushes, from the similar consonance of the two words.
Dutch	Bomstammen	Pun on boomstammen, meaning "tree trunks" and bom, meaning "bomb".
German	Hickhack	Pun on Hickhack, meaning "dispute" and hack, meaning "chopping".
Italian	Ceppo o bomba?	Log or bomb?
Chinese	砍柴我最行 Kǎn chái wǒ zuì xíng	Woodcutting No. 1

Trivia

• The concept is similar to Log Jam and Slap Down, both minigames from Mario Party 3.