Cut from the Team

Cut from the Team is a Battle minigame in Mario Party 8. Its name is from the expression "cut from the team", which is when someone is removed from a team.

Introduction
The four players find themselves on a mountain, with a little stand and ten wires.

Gameplay
This game is all luck; no strategy is involved. There are ten wires, of which three are live wires, and seven wires are dead. The players will go one by one on to the stand, snipping one wire at time. Once they cut it, they will duck. If nothing happens, they are safe and they will go back to the end of the line. If the wire is live, they will be shot off from the platform, and the game will continue with the rest. Once three of them are gone, the last one is the winner.

The game is similar to BOWSER's Big Blast from Mario Party 2 and Bowser's Bigger Blast from Mario Party 4, due to the fact that the player had to choose a switch at random to prevent it from blowing up. It later plays similarly to Cheep Cheep Chance from Mario Party DS.

Ending
The winner will do his or her victory dance while the screen slowly zooms out.

In-game text

 * Rules – "Take turns snipping wires. Some are dead wires, but others trigger a catapult that sends you flying."
 * Hint – "It's all luck here! Cross your fingers."