Aim of the Game

Template:Minigame-infobox Aim of the Game is a Battle and Duel minigame found in Mario Party 8 and a Free-for-All minigame featured in Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name is a pun on a phrase that means "what one wants to accomplish."

Introduction

A top hat is on the screen, and cards start flying out of the top. Shortly thereafter, the game begins.

Gameplay

Each player must shoot five cards from a falling deck and try to get the highest score. The cards flip repetitively, and the number on each card (and therefore the point value) is visible for only a short while. The numbers are 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, ×2 (which doubles the player's current score), and ×0 (which reduces the player's total score to zero). The "×" cards are multipliers. A timer is not visible while the game is in progress, but as soon as the last of the cards fall offscreen, the game ends; afterwards, the value of the cards gets added up or multiplied. Whoever has the most points wins the minigame. The most points a player can get is 800, obtained by hitting a 50 first and then ×2s for the other four, or by hitting two 50s first and three ×2s after.

In Mario Party: The Top 100, the cards descend noticeably faster.

Ending

Winning players (as well as second-place players in The Top 100) perform their respective victory poses while any losing players do their losing animations beside them. If the minigame ends in a tie in Mario Party 8, all players do their losing animations.

Controls

Mario Party 8

• Wii Remote: Use the Pointer to move the cursor.
• Buttons
  • / – Shoot

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Move cursor
• : Shoot

In-game text

Mario Party 8

• Rules – "Shoot five falling cards to get the highest score. Some cards have face values. Others have multipliers."
• Hint – "Shoot high face-value cards, then gun for multipliers. But don't shoot the x0 cards. They'll zero out your score!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Hit 5 cards as they fall, and aim for the highest total score!"
• On-screen – "Hit 5 cards and aim for a high score!"

Gallery

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  Mario Party 8 (Duel minigame version)

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Dutch	Rekenregen[?]	Calculating Rain
German	Multiplizielen[?]	Multiply Aim (Pun on multiplizieren (multiply) and zielen (aim))
Italian	Carte Cadenti[?]	Falling Cards
Korean	맞혀라! 점수카드[?] Mattcheora! Jeomsukadeu	Hit the score cards!
Spanish (NOA)	Tiro a la carta (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?]	Shooting the card
Spanish (NOE)	Carta blanca[?]	White Card (Pun on an expression meaning "complete freedom")