Card Party

Card Party is a side-game from Mario Party 5. It is very similar to Mario Party, except it's in the form of a card game. Hosted by Mamar (in charge of Bonus Mode), this board is entirely made up of cards, with character game pieces instead of actual characters. First thing that players did was choose the size of the board (7x7, 8x8, 9x9, or 10x10). Then, the game pieces were chosen (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Daisy, or Waluigi). Next, the order of play was chosen by picking cards numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. The player that picked 1 went first, and so on. When that was done, players chose where to start on the board. Once the game started, each player rolled the dice (not Dice Block) and moved a certain number of spaces. As they went turning cards over, they could pick which direction they wanted to go. When a new card was turned over, it revealed a Path Card, Item Card, Event Card, Bowser Card, or Star Card.

Path Cards
These cards simply opened a pathway for players to continue traveling. It was where they chose which direction they wanted to go, depending on which way the path went. It was always best to head toward the Star cards, as the winner was determined by the number of Stars. Sometimes, another die was revealed from under a Path Card, making the player roll it and the number rolled was added to the current number of spaces left.

Item Cards
These cards give you useful items that you can use by pushing B at the beginning of your turn

Cursed Mushroom
The user had to stop a Cursed Mushroom wheel to determine which opponent took the curse, taking their die roll down to three.

Mushroom
Players got two dice to roll, possibly doubling their move.

Warp Pipe
Using this card turns one card into a four-way junction and revealed all the Path Cards around it.

Event Cards
These cards bring an unexpected event that can be good or bad for you.

Switch Places
You trade places with a random opponent.

Send Away
That player goes to a random place on the board.

Boo
This summoned Boo to steal a Star Card (regardless of what kind) from another player and give it to the player.

Red Boo
Summoned an angry red Boo that Stole the player's Star Card (regardless of what kind) and gave it to someone else.

Bowser Card
When this card was turned over, Bowser or Koopa Kid appeared to cause trouble.

Star Cards
These all look the same from the top side, but once they are flipped over, there are three possibilities:

Star Card
Worth 1 Star. (Very rarely, the star can suddently changes to a Ztar)

Double Star
Worth 2 Stars.

Ztar Star
Worth -1 Star (it was possible to have a negative number of Stars thanks to these cards).

Last Card Event
if one player is in fourth place when left only one card in game, one of those events can happen.

Star Chance
The fourth place player roll two green dice whit a star in one of its faces, if the player got this face, the player get a Star.

End
At the end of the game, the player with the most Stars won. If there was a tie, players played an easy game to determine the winner. There were eight cards facing down, and players take turns until one player revealed the Star Card. This player was then declared the winner.