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Contents

  • Essentials
    • How to Play
      • Introduction
      • Game Modes
      • Let's Party!
  • Walkthrough
    • Game Boards
      • Toad Road
      • Bob-omb Factory
      • Boo's Horror Castle
      • Blooper Beach
      • Magma Mine
      • Bowser Station
      • DK's Jungle Ruins
    • Minigames
      • Free-for-All Minigames
      • 10 to Win
      • Ballistic Beach
      • Billistics
      • Bomb Barge
      • Buddy Bounce
      • Bumper Bubbles
      • Card Smarts
      • Chain Event
      • Don't Look
      • Flinger Painting
      • Funghi Frenzy
      • Goomba Bowling
      • Goomba Spotting
      • Goomba Village
      • Growing Up
      • Jigsaw Jumble
      • Launch Break
      • Logger Heads
      • Magma Mayhem
      • Manor of Escape
      • Mecha Choice
      • Peak Precision
      • Painta Pool
      • Pier Pressure
      • Pinball Fall
      • Piranha Patch
      • Pit or Platter
      • Pizza Me, Mario
      • Player Conveyor
      • Plunder Ground
      • Polar Extreme
      • Ring Leader
      • Skipping Class
      • Skyjinks
      • Smash Compactor
      • Snow Go
      • Speeding Bullets
      • Thwomper Room
      • Toad and Go Seek
      • Tuber Tug
      • Tumble Temple
      • Twist Ending
      • Upward Mobility
      • Urn It
    • 1-vs.-Rivals Minigames
      • 1vs. Rivals Minigames
      • Block and Roll
      • Hazard Hold
      • Hole Hogs
      • Line in the Sand
      • Mob Sleds
      • Pix Fix
      • Ruins Rumble
      • Spike-n-Span
      • Tackle Takedown
      • Weird Wheels
    • Bowser Jr. Minigames
      • Bowser Pop
      • Bumper Sparks
      • Cage Match
      • Crossfire Caverns
      • Double Pounder
      • Mecha March
      • Pair of Aces
      • Pedal to the Paddle
      • Sand Trap
      • Zoom Room
    • Boss Battle Minigames
      • Boss Battle Minigames Introduction
      • Blooper Barrage
      • Bombard King Bob-omb
      • Bowser Jr. Breakdown
      • Bowser's Block Battle
      • Chain Chomp Romp
      • Cheep Cheep Shot
      • Deck Dry Bones
      • Diddy's Banana Blast
      • DK's Banana Bonus
      • King Boo's Puzzle Attack
      • Sock It to Lakitu
      • Spike Strike
      • Whomp Stomp
      • Wiggler Bounce
    • Minigame Modes
      • Introduction
      • Free Play
      • Step It Up
      • Garden Battle
      • Choice Challenge
      • High Rollers
      • Time Attack
      • Boss Rush
    • Extras
      • Castle Clearout
      • Shell Soccer
      • Goomba Bowling
      • Perspective Mode
    • Museum Goodies
      • Party Points
      • The Museum

Mario Party 9 Guide › Walkthrough › 1-vs.-Rivals Minigames

Hole Hogs

How to Play: Solo Player

Hold the Wii Remote vertically. Point at your target and press A to hammer.

How to Play: Rivals

Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press the D-Pad, 1, or 2 to choose a hold to pop out of. Earn a point every time you escape being hit. Fill the points meter at the bottom to win!

In Hole Hogs, the solo player must use a heavy mallet to whack the players on the rival team, who pop up from several holes in the ground.

The rivals must poke their heads out from the earth in an effort to score points, while the solo player must simply prevent the rivals from scoring by whacking each one as promptly as possible. Who will achieve victory in this zany minigame?

The solo player’s job couldn’t be simpler in Hole Hogs. Just watch those holes carefully, and be quick to point at them and press A to whack your rivals each time they poke their heads out.

Simply hit every rival as quickly as possible to prevent them from scoring.

Note

Monty Moles will periodically pop up from the holes to confuse the solo player. You can whack these little guys as well if you like, but try not to become distracted by them!

The team of rivals has their work cut out for them. They can only score points by popping up from a hole and praying that the solo player doesn’t whack them before they dip back down.

Each time a rival manages to stick their head up for a few seconds without being whacked, a musical note appears over their head, and they score one point.

The rivals must fill out the lengthy points meter at the screen’s bottom to beat their solo adversary—no easy feat!

Tip

The rivals should coordinate with their fellow teammates and try to all pop out of the ground together. This increases the odds that at least one of them will be left unwhacked!

Tip

Try popping out of holes alongside Monty Moles to confuse the solo player. Emerging from the same hole that a rival was just been whacked at sometimes works, because the solo player is apt to turn their attention elsewhere.

Hole Hogs last for 30 seconds, so the rivals need to average a point every three seconds in order to win.

This certainly isn’t easy, but with enough guile and sneakiness, the rivals can take their lumps and still manage to eek out the win.

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