Trace Race

Template:Minigame-infobox Trace Race is a Battle minigame in Mario Party 4 and a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars.

Introduction

The camera zooms in on the beginning of a giant clipboard as the four players jump in one by one, each holding a giant crayon.

Gameplay

Players each have a giant crayon and a long path that they must trace. The path winds with a series of turns, curves, and loops. Players score points based on their accuracy. The most accurate player at the path's end wins, unless no one scores at least 30 points, in which case the game ends in a draw.

In Mario Party 4, each crayon and path is colored according to the character, with a relevant symbol at the beginning of the path. In Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, the standard player colors are used, with the symbol always being a mushroom.

Ending

After all four players reach the end of the track, the screen shows their traces from beginning to end, calculating who was most accurate. In Mario Party 4 and Mario Party Superstars, the winning player(s) do(es) their victory poses(s) while the other players do their regular losing poses, and if everyone achieves the same score, they all do their losing poses.

Controls

Mario Party 4

• – Move

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Move

Mario Party Superstars

• – Move

In-game text

Mario Party 4

• Game Rules – "Trace the colored line on the ground. Whoever stays closest to the original line wins!"
• Advice – "If no one scores more than 30 points, we'll call it a tie. Try to get 100, you guys!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Trace the guideline carefully with your crayon!"
• On-screen – "Trace the guideline carefully!"

Mario Party Superstars

• "Trace the guideline carefully with your crayon!"

Gallery

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Mario Party Superstars

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	なぞってクレヨン[?] Nazotte Kureyon	Tracing with Crayon
Dutch	Overtrekken[?]	Trace
German	Linienführung[?]	Lines Guide
Italian	Gli assi della penna[?]	Pen axes
Korean	크레용 따라 그리기[?] Keureyong Ttara Geurigi	Crayon Tracing
Portuguese	Siga à Risca[?]	"Follow to the Letter", with risca also meaning "line"
Russian	Мелковое ралли[?] Melkovoye ralli	?
Spanish (NOA)	Traza en carrera (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?]	Race Trace (Mario Party: The Top 100)
Spanish (NOE)	Cera a la carrera[?]	Racing Crayon