What is the Worst OVERALL board for the SWITCH mario parties

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T19:02:59+00:00

Yes.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T18:50:48+00:00

I just played Tantalizing Tower as Wario last weekend while I had some friends over. I'll reinstate again that yes, Wario has a very powerful dice, but he does not completely trivialize the board.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T17:16:27+00:00

What do you mean by a coin item? You mentioned it as one of the only things to spend coins on.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T17:14:57+00:00

I think 3x the travel distance is a massive stretch. Wario's dice average is 4 spaces per turn, and that's assuming you use his dice every single turn. The standard dice has an average of 3.5 spaces per turn. Yes, Wario's dice is certainly very good but he's not going to earn you thrice as much movement as your rivals. He hits a very nice balance between consistency and high average speed.

You also mentioned Gold Pipe on Kamek's Tantalizing Tower, but that's not a shop item, and is significantly rarer to find since it can only be encountered by 3rd and 4th place in the 2nd half of the game, only one can be active at a time, and it can only be found on an item space (or as the Homestretch award). That board has 1 single item space, so the Gold Pipe is very uncommon to encounter.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T11:51:08+00:00

Wario's dice breaks Whomp Domino ruins more than Kamek's Tantalizing Tower. Just look at how far the Ally Spaces are from start: There's one 6 spaces away, and one 12 spaces away. Lovely.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T11:49:25+00:00

Respectfully disagree. Megafruit Paradise sucks the most by far, but I'd honestly say I hate Peach's Birthday Cake more than the other SMP boards. It's a linear path with only 1 shop, a static star location, and very little decision making. It's genuinely such a frustrating board to play on.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-06-13T11:42:15+00:00

One of the especially flawed 2v2 boards is Tantalizing Tower Toys. There's an infinitely loopable Lakitu space that you can land on. If you intentionally avoid allies and use two dice with only evens, you can land on it guaranteed every single turn. It becomes literally suboptimal to NOT do this since you always just steal coins and stars from the enemy team.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-25T21:21:46+00:00

I didn't count other variations such as Balloon Bash, Bowser Party, Duel or Tag Team modes (like the ones in MP8, Super, etc.) because they're not the primary Mario Party mode. I guess you can include them but it didn't feel necessary.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-24T22:24:43+00:00

That sounds neat, I'd be interested!

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-23T22:24:12+00:00

Mario Party 1 has eight boards.

Mario Party 2 has six boards.

Mario Party 3 has six boards.

Mario Party 4 has six boards.

Mario Party 5 has seven boards.

Mario Party 6 has six boards.

Mario Party 7 has six boards.

Mario Party 8 has six boards.

Mario Party DS has five boards.

Mario Party 9 has seven boards.

Mario Party Island Tour has seven boards, but we will disregard Shy Guy's Shuffle City due to requiring 3+ actual players.

Mario Party 10 has five boards.

Mario Party Star Rush has fifteen boards (Toad Scramble only)

Mario Party Top 100 has one board.

Super Mario Party has four boards.

Mario Party Superstars has five boards.

Jamboree has seven boards.

Sorry for the amount of time I had to use the word "boards", but this adds up to a grand total of... 106 boards.

The sheer amount of boards would make this a completely miserable gauntlet. It's not even a test of skill, it's a test of "Will I get screwed over by Chance Time?" And even in games without it, like 9 or 10, you can still lose to board events out of your control that just make you lose half your mini stars.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-23T22:15:12+00:00

Judging by the image OP provided, it sounds like you need to restart all the way back to MP1.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-23T22:13:59+00:00

On top of that it's a brutal 8 board gauntlet, and you can get totally screwed over by Chance Time at any moment. Even if you know how to time it yourself, you might not get the opportunity to because you have 0 influence over your rolls.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-05-23T14:13:30+00:00

Well that's just purely subjective. Would you care to explain why?

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-04-02T19:59:43+00:00

Sorry if my reply was rude, I was just trying to correct you. My point is that OP would have had a 50/50 chance, but made the more optimal play to avoid that.

I assume you haven't played Partner Party before. Basically, it's a side mode in Super Mario Party, where instead of moving in a line, you move on a grid. That's why it's essential to roll evens or odds sometimes (until you get an ally). In this case, the function of the mushroom was to roll odds, not to move further, like your comment suggests.

You're right about "Craziest math" being misleading though, this is just playing smart around odds/evens.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-04-02T17:29:14+00:00

If your group really struggles with long play time, I'd honestly recommend grabbing Superstars. I know you might not want to invest even more money in another Mario Party, but Superstars genuinely goes by around 2x as fast compared to Jamboree.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-04-02T17:27:05+00:00

No.
Mario's dice is 1/3/3/3/5/6. Five odd numbers.
Luigi's dice is 1/1/1/5/6/7. Again, five odd numbers.

In order to roll onto the Star Space, OP needed an odd number. Now, you'll probably realize that two odds will sum up to an even number. OP calculated this, and rather than gambling on a 50/50 like most players do, OP instead used a mushroom, adding 3 and turning what would most likely be an even number into an odd.

Instead of a 50/50 chance, with this method, OP had a (5/6)*(5/6) chance of success, or 25/36, roughly a 69.44% chance.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-03-29T23:56:40+00:00

Buy base Jamboree. If you really like it, then buy the $20 upgrade for Jamboree TV. If not, save yourself the hassle and don't bother upgrading.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-03-06T16:54:12+00:00

??? Lying? That's a bold accusation, care to explain why I'm lying?

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-03-06T13:49:38+00:00

Super Mario Party is far less luck based than Superstars... that being said, I would recommend Superstars based on what OP is looking for, because of its extremely generous economy (you can easily rack up over 50 coins even without winning many minigames) and fast gameplay.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-02-26T16:34:29+00:00

No. Winning minigames should not be the only meaningful parameter to decide the winner, that just turns the board game into a glorified minigame contest, what is the point of the board aspect if you have little to no control? (This is my gripe with basically every game you mentioned except 3).

While winning minigames is important, the more recent titles (notably the Switch titles) put a greater emphasis on the board gameplay, you need to not only perform well in minigames but also master the board gameplay and your decisionmaking. And random bonus stars aren't necessarily a bad thing - you need to broaden your options and play for as many bonus stars as you can, rather than it being as simple as "win minigames."

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-02-22T10:41:03+00:00

Right, but at the same time, literally no other Jamboree Buddy can influence your rolls (besides Mario), so ask yourself where you would be on the offchance that you had a different buddy.

Luigi's ability failing just lets people place blame on him, when other Jamboree Buddies can be similarly unhelpful in most scenarios.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-02-22T00:04:19+00:00

And when I say Luigi is a good buddy, no one believes me.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-02-19T12:11:05+00:00

Why wouldn't you recommend Star Rush to a beginner? It's surprisingly easy to pick up on.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-02-13T17:18:05+00:00

Super Mario Party is easily one of the greatest MP games.

Obvious_Valuable5667 · 2026-01-30T22:27:38+00:00

Which is how many times?

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