Cardiators

Cardiators is a duel mini-game appears in Mario Party 8. The Wii Remote is held sideways for this mini game.

Gameplay
The two duelers will enter a gladiator stadium. In the middle, there will be three face down cards. Both characters choose a card which each have a number. The character who gets the highest number gets to go first.

Both characters will now face in an RPG card battle. Both characters have the same amount of HP (20). Over on a table, there will be a few cards (faced down) and the character that had the highest number, gets to go to the table first and pick their first. The card he or she picked will have a character (such as Penguin or Thwomp) and a number, the character on the card will then come charging in and attack the opponent taking away HP. The number of HP taken will be on the card. The best card that one can get is worth 12 points, while the worst is worth 1 point of damage.

Then after the first character is done attacking, the opponent will then go to the cards, grab one and attack the opponent. This will go on, until one of the characters runs out of HP and looses.

Cards

 * Penguin-1 The penguin will attack by sliding and knocking down the player.
 * Ukiki-2 The ukiki will jump and land on the player's head, knocking them down.
 * Group of Penguins-3 This group of penguins will waddle over the player, flattening them.
 * Group of Ukiki's-4 These ukikis will act just like the sigle ukiki, jumping on the player's head and knocking them over.
 * Bob-omb-5 the bob-omb will fall from the sky, turn red and explode in the player's hands.
 * A group of Ukiki-6 Yet again they will attack the same way as before.
 * A group of Penguins-7 Yet again they will attack the same way as before.
 * Wiggler-8 The wiggler will be red in rage when he enters the stadium. He will throw the player into the air.
 * Bullet Bills-9 Three bullet bills will enter the stadium. The first and second ones will slightly throw the player into the air, but the final one will throw the player a huge distance upwards.
 * Thwomp-10 The thwomp will fall out of the sky just like the bob-omb and flatten the player.
 * There is no "11" attack.
 * Chain Chomp-12 The chain chomp will enter the stadium, making the ground vibrate as he gets closer, and will fling the player into the air.

Trivia

 * The game's name is a pun on Gladiators.