Squared Away

Squared Away
Mario Party 5 Mario Party: The Top 100
Appears in	Mario Party 5 Mario Party: The Top 100
Type	1-vs-3 minigame
Time limit	30 seconds
Music	In Great Fear (Mario Party 5) Hurry! Hurry! (Mario Party: The Top 100)

Squared Away is a 1-vs-3 minigame found in Mario Party 5 and Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name is a play on the expression "squared away," used to refer to one who is skilled and ready to accomplish their tasks.

Introduction

The tiles for the grid drop down on the board while the solo player stands on a block in the upper left corner. All the blocks drop down: three big ones and one small one. The solo player jumps into the small one, and the minigame begins.

Gameplay

The solo player must avoid being crushed by the team players. The team players can cover four tiles with each roll, which is more than the solo player (which is only one per roll), but to counter this disadvantage, the solo player moves much more quickly than the team players. The solo player wins if they survive for 30 seconds. The team players win if they crush the solo player.

Mario Party 5's version contains several different aesthetics: Mario, Heart, Cheep Cheep, Yoshi Egg, Blue Fire Flower, Goomba, Mushroom, or Star, but Mario Party: The Top 100's version features only a Mario aesthetic. Unlike in Mario Party 5, the lone character in Mario Party: The Top 100 vocalizes when getting crushed.

Ending

In Mario Party 5, depending on whoever wins, the loser(s) will be chased by Thwomps in the background and trip while the winner(s) perform(s) their victory pose(s) on top of (a) golden Thwomp(s).

Controls

Mario Party 5

• – Move

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Move

In-game text

Mario Party 5

• Rules – "Three players each climb into a giant cube and try to squish the fourth player, who's trying to escape in a smaller cube."
• Advice 1 – "The player in the smaller cube should make tight turns to escape the giant boxes."
• Advice 2 – "The three players in the giant cubes should cooperate and try to corner the fourth player."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Who will win? One small, nimble cube, or 3 huge, lumbering ones? Either way, it will be a crushing victory!"
• On-screen (Solo) – "Don't get crushed!"
• On-screen (Team) – "Crush the small box!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ころころペッタン Korokoro pettan	Roll and Squish
Spanish	Acoso al cubo	Cube Harassment
French	Thwomp qui roule...	Thwomp that rolls... (Comes from the expression Pierre qui roule, n'amasse pas mousse)
Dutch	Brijzelblokken	Mash Blocks
German	Kubus der Verdammnis	Damnation Cube
Italian	Twomp rotolante	Rolling Thwomp