ID UFO

Template:Minigame-infobox ID UFO is a 2-vs-2 minigame from Mario Party 5.

Introduction

A UFO startles the Red Team members, and it quickly flies off into space. While the Red Team turns to face the screen, the screen splits and shows both teams.

Gameplay

There are two sets of UFO pairs, one for each team. Each team must ground-pound two of the nine UFO panels simultaneously within a time window to match the UFO pair outside. When a panel is triggered, color and sound effects indicate whenever a player has a correct match or not. Once a team correctly matches its pair, its UFO pair flies away and a new UFO pair appears. The team that matches five UFO pairs before the other team wins the game. If time runs out before five UFO pairs are matched, the team that matched more pairs wins. However, if both teams matched the same number of pairs when time runs out, the minigame ends in a draw.

While all the UFOs' designs are unique, most share a few characteristics designed to confuse the player into guessing the wrong panel.

Ending

The ending to ID UFO

The winning team do their victory animations, while the other team falls through the holes and floats in space. If the minigame ends in a draw, both teams perform their losing animations as UFOs fly by the teams.

Controls

• – Move
• – Jump
• → – Ground Pound

In-game text

• Rules – "Find the panels that match the two UFOs. You and your teammate must then do a Ground Pound on both panels at the same time."
• Advice 1 – "To get a point, you have to do a Ground Pound on your panel at the same time your teammate does a Ground Pound on his or hers."
• Advice 2 – "If you Ground Pound on the wrong panel, that panel will flash red."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
German	Area 53[?]	Pun on Area 51
Italian	Coppie di UFO[?]	UFO Pairs
Spanish	OVNI identificado[?]	Identified UFO

Trivia

• This minigame, M.P.I.Q., and GOOOOOOOAL!! are the only Mario Party series minigames whose names do not have any lowercase letters.