
These particular minigames don't require any video game skill or knowledge.
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These minigames are interesting because they seem to step beyond the TV screen-it's not just you pointing at the screen and interacting with a digital rendition of yourself.

The remotes will play an animal sound, and everyone has to scramble to pick up the right one. Another one asks you to line up your remotes on the floor or a table. When the "finders" return to the room, they must find the remotes, which emit a sound from their speakers every 10 seconds. Another game actually asks you to hide your Wii Remotes in the living room. This simple game can be a lot of fun with a group of friends with its tense mix of simplicity and precision. The next person has to press a button as he or she receives it-careful not shake it too much. One person must hold a button and pass it to another. One has you passing the remote around as if it's a bomb.

A handful of minigames revolve around the remote itself. You'll see a few recycled minigames and a few that seem a bit too similar, but Nintendo has thrown in a couple of unique twists that employ the Wii Remote in clever ways. There's even a minigame that has you running away from zombie Miis (so that means zombies can mark another genre off their list of video games to appear in). There's a huge variety of minigames to play everything from kart racing to vegetable chopping.
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Wii Party can be a blast if you've got a full room of friends. That latter is quite addictive, and it's a shame there aren't more levels, though to be fair, Wii Party isn't really about single-player gaming. Another one isn't a minigame at all, but 30 levels of an interesting puzzle game that has you manipulating the paths of automated Miis to water plants.

One requires you to beat minigames to move forward on a space map if you lose too many, it's game over.
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You can also play a silly and simple matching game that tests your compatibility with a friend through a series of questions you each answer without telling the other. If you do well in the minigames, you're rewarded with equally weighted Miis for the boat. In addition to the four-player games, there are modes for pairs to enjoy, like the boat balancing game, which requires you to balance Miis on a three-tiered boat mast. There are enough wild cards, like luck-based minigames, or negative spaces on the board games, to keep the playing field relatively even though.

Many of the game modes reward your minigame skill with a better starting position, more points, or some other kind of advantage. There's a bingo game that uses Mii faces, a Wheel of Fortune-type game that requires a good bit of luck, a Mii matching game, and more. You can also compete in a globe-trotting board game that requires as much strategy as it does minigame skill. You can play a Mario Party-style board game, which runs at a faster pace and evokes the fun of the best games in the Mario Party series. Wii Party is packed with more than 80 games, and there are quite a few different modes in which to play them. This one is both faster and more fun than Mario Party. There are several games that incorporate minigames. A number of modes afford you different ways to play according to how big your party is and how long you're planning to play for, and regardless of which you choose you're sure to have a good time. Wii Party is an inventive and varied game that's fun for the whole family to play together and which does some really interesting things with the Wii Remote along the way. You might think that another minigame collection is the last thing your Wii library needs right now, but it'd be unfortunate if you were to dismiss Nintendo's latest offering on that basis alone.
