Toad and Go Seek

This article is about the minigame in Mario Party 9. For the Five Fun Guys' challenge in Paper Mario: Color Splash, see Five Fun Guys § History.

Toad and Go Seek
Type	Free-for-All minigame

Toad and Go Seek is a Free-for-All minigame featured in Mario Party 9. The minigame's name and gameplay are based on the children's game hide and go seek, also known as hide-and-seek.

Introduction

The players stand in a square, turning their heads as if they are looking around. Then, a video of a blue Toad running into a Toad House is played.

Gameplay

Birdo finding the Toad

Players try to be the first to successfully find the house with the Toad in it, with the rest of the houses being occupied by Goombas. Players run around, knocking on doors. If players carefully watched the video of the Toad, there is little to no guesswork involved.

There is a two-minute time limit for this minigame. If the players do not find the right Toad House within a minute, a map will appear to help them out.

In the Step It Up version of this minigame, the camera zooms into the player who found the Toad first.

In-game text

• Rules – "Remember which house Toad enters, then be the first to pay him a visit!"
• Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press to move and to knock on a door while standing in front of a Toad House."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	さがしてキノピオ[?] Sagashite kinopio	Search Toad
Chinese	奇諾比奧躲貓貓[?] Qínuòbǐ'ào duǒ māo māo	Toad Hide-and-Seek
German	Toad-Versteckspiel[?]	Toad Hide-and-seek
Italian	A casa di Toad[?]	To Toad's house
Spanish	Escondite Toad[?]	Toad Hide-and-Seek

Trivia

• In Bloo Bay Beach in Paper Mario: Color Splash, one of the events in the Oceanfest is called "Toad and Go Seek." It is unknown whether this was an intended reference or a mere coincidence.