Booksquirm

Template:Minigame-infobox Booksquirm is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 4 and Mario Party: The Top 100. The minigame's name is a pun on the word "bookworm," a term used to describe a person who reads a lot of books.

Introduction

A book is shown opening, then the four players jump onto the page. The words in the book are arranged in incomprehensible structures, comparable to lorem ipsum text.

Gameplay

Pages of the book will begin to turn (fall), so the players must find holes in the pages to avoid being flattened. Players can share a hole. As time goes on, the pages will turn much faster, and the number of holes in each page will decrease. This process continues until one character is left standing. In Mario Party 4, if the remaining players get flattened at the same time, the game is a draw; this is the case in The Top 100 only if all four players are flattened simultaneously.

Challenge Booksquirm

In Mario Party 4, there is also an unlockable version of Booksquirm, called Challenge Booksquirm, which can be earned by playing the original Booksquirm in a party, and can then be selected in the Extra Room. It challenges the player to see how many pages they can last until their character is squashed. If the player manages to surpass 15 pages, a Goomba Plate is placed in the Minigame Room.

Challenge Booksquirm also ends after the player manages to pass through 99 pages.

Ending

The camera zooms in on the winning character, who does their victory pose. Losing players are not seen.

Controls

Mario Party 4

• – Move

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Move

In-game text

Mario Party 4

• Game Rules – "Avoid getting flattened by the pages! Find a hole in the falling page and position yourself so you fit through to the next page!"
• Advice – "Look for shadows in the falling page to find the passage to the next page."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Stand under the holes in the falling pages so you don't get flattened!"
• On-screen – "Don't let the pages flatten you!"

Names in other languages

Booksquirm

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ぱらぱらブック[?] Parapara bukku	Pattering Book
Dutch	Boekenwurm[?]	Bookworm
German	Druckerpresse[?]	Printing Press
Italian	Attenti al libro[?]	Book attack
Spanish (NOA)	Me libro del libro (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?]	I break free from the book (Mario Party: The Top 100)
Spanish (NOE)	El mamotreto[?]	The Huge Tome

Challenge Booksquirm

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	チャレンジぱらぱらブック[?] Charenji parapara bukku	Challenge Pattering Book
German	Druckerpresse Plus[?]	Printing Press Plus
Italian	Sfida col libro[?]	Book challenge
Spanish (NOE)	El pesado mamotreto[?]	The Annoying/Heavy Huge Tome