Hexagon Heat

Hexagon Heat is a 4-Player minigame found in Mario Party 2 and Mario Party: The Top 100.

Introduction
The players stand on the white hexagon in the center of a pit of magma. The other six hexagons then show up and join around it, and the minigame begins.

Gameplay
When Toad raises a colored flag, all the players must go to the hexagon tile with the same color; all the other hexagon tiles slowly sink into the lava. Players can also jump on their opponents to slow them down, or ground-pound them to squish them flat and stop them altogether, at the risk of being eliminated themselves. As the minigame progresses, the hexagons fall and rise faster. The last player standing wins. The premise and ruleset of this game are similar to Mushroom Mix-Up from the first Mario Party, with lava in place of water; however, the hexagon platforms lack the mushrooms' polka-dot patterns from that game.

The hexagons' order is always as follows, from top left to bottom right: yellow, red, cyan, white (where the players start), green, blue, pink.

In Mario Party: The Top 100, the order of the colors of the hexagons has been changed, and in addition, there are shapes imprinted on them. This is the hexagons' order in this game, from top left to bottom right: blue vertical rectangle, green triangle, pink square, white circle (where the players start), cyan diamond, yellow upside-down triangle, red horizontal rectangle. Additionally, players no longer recoil from ground-pounding other players.

The music speeds up as the minigame progresses, a trait that does not carry over to the Mario Party: The Top 100 version.

Mario Party 2

 * – Move
 * – Jump
 * → – Hip Drop

Mario Party: The Top 100

 * Move
 * Jump
 * in the air: Ground Pound

Mario Party 2

 * Game Rules – "Run to the hexagon that matches the color of the flag I [Toad] raise. Last one standing wins!"
 * Game Rules (Mini-Game Coaster) – "Run to the same color hexagon as the Toad's flag. Be the last person standing to clear this Mini-Game."
 * Advice – "The more time it takes to determine a winner, the faster the hexagons move. Stay on your toes!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

 * Description – "Move to the same colored panel as shown on Toad's sign! Last one left wins!"
 * On-screen – "Step on the same color panel as shown on the sign!"

Names in other languages
Hexagon-Chaos