Pool Buoy

Not to be confused with Pool Boy.

Pool Buoy
Appears in	Mario Party: Island Tour
Type	General minigame
Time limit	Aproximately 40 seconds
Music track	Pleasantly Moving Along
Music sample

Pool Buoy (known as Beach Ball Bedlam in British English) is one of the General minigames from Mario Party: Island Tour. The American English name is derived from "pool boy" and "pull buoy", a float used to aid in swimming.

Gameplay

The players are inside beach balls in a circular swimming pool. They can move by sliding the on the ball on the bottom screen. A Lakitu keeps roaming above them throwing flag buoys for them to collect. Red buoys are worth one point, while golden buoys are worth three. The player with the most points wins the game.

Controls

American English

• – Roll the ball to move

British English

• – Slide the ball to move.

In-game text

• Rules – American English "Race around the pool, and collect as many flag buoys as possible."
• Rules – British English "Collect the flags Lakitu throws."

See also

• Bumper Bugs

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	プールでフラッグあつめ[?] Pūru de furaggu atsume	Collect Flags at the Pool
Dutch	Lakitu's Ballenbad[?]	Lakitu's Ball Bath
French (NOA)	Droit sur les drapeaux[?]	Straight to the Flags. (Probably from the expression "Straight to the Point")
French (NOE)	Drapeaux sur l'eau[?]	Flags on water (Pun with "Bateaux sur l'eau")
German	Schwimmbad-Rolleo[?]	Swimming Pool Rolleo
Italian	All'ultima boa[?]	To the last buoy
Portuguese	Bolas Flutuantes[?]	Floating Balls
Russian	Буря в бассейне Burya v bacceyne	Storm at the pool. "Буря" is a pun on "буй" (buoy).
Spanish	¡Balones al agua![?]	Balls in the Water!