Strawberry Shortfuse

Strawberry Shortfuse is a Battle minigame in Mario Party 6 and a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name comes from the name of the dessert. It is a memory-based game akin to Stacked Deck. The official website included a game entitled "Cake or Bomb?" that was based on this minigame.

There is a page containing the game in the Miracle Book.

Introduction
The players run into a kitchen as the minigame begins.

Gameplay
The game begins with ten Ukikis holding trays that contain five bombs and five cakes; they hide the contents of their trays and run around the room, scrambling themselves. Players line up and choose an Ukiki. If the Ukiki holds a cake, the player is safe and moves to the back of the line. If the Ukiki holds a bomb, it explodes and eliminates the player from the game. The last player standing is the winner.

Should the players choose all five cakes prior to a single player being left, the Ukikis refill their trays and the minigame continues, up to two times. If this happens three times (and a cake is selected a total of 15 times) before three players are eliminated, all present players win the minigame and split all the coins in the pot. While there is always a winner in the minigame, it is extremely rare that a game ends with no loser.

Ending
In Mario Party 6, the winning player(s) celebrate(s) as the remaining Ukikis cheer and expose the contents of their trays.

Mario Party 6

 * – Move the cursor
 * – Confirm

Mario Party: The Top 100

 * Move cursor
 * Confirm

Mario Party 6

 * Rules – "Pick a monkey with a cake to stay in the game. Choose a monkey with a bomb, and you're out! The last player standing wins!"
 * Advice – "The monkeys will shuffle at the beginning of the round. Keep your eyes glued to the monkeys holding cake!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

 * Description and on-screen – "Remember the Ukikis with cake!"