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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 › Game Boards

DK's Jungle Ruins

Points of Interest Special Spaces
Banana Catapult (Lucky Space Area) Barrel Cannon to Banana Catapult
Spinning Diddies (Lucky Space Area) Barrel Cannon to Spinning Diddies
Diddy Kong Minigame Banana Spin Wheel
Toad Checkpoint Barrel Choice
Donkey Kong Minigame
Space Breakdown
Dice Block Spaces (10) Back Spaces (1)
Lucky Spaces (2) Captain Event Spaces (1)
Event Spaces (DK Spaces) (4) Boss Battle Spaces (1)
Shuffle Spaces (2) Free-for-All Minigame Spaces (3)
Dash Spaces (3) 1-vs.-Rivals Minigame Spaces (1)

Board Overview

Deep in the heart of the misty jungle, ancient and mysterious ruins serve as home to that big excitable ape Donkey Kong!

You can play this special board only after you visit the Museum and spend 500 Party Points to unlock it, so it’ll take some time before you can join DK and Diddy Kong in their tropical playground.

Mini Stars are nowhere to be found around here—it’s Bananas that you’re after!

This short board is lined with DK’s favorite fruit, but watch out: Sinister Z-Bananas are also about, and touching any of these rotten fruits will subtract some Bananas from your pack.

Though it appears to be the shortest board of all, you’re actually required to make two laps around DK’s Jungle Ruins, effectively doubling its size.

There are also special areas to visit, where you can win Bananas by the bunches! DK’s Jungle Ruins is a fast and fun board with relatively few hazards, making it one of the best boards to play when you’re trying to pile up those Party Points.

Note

Like Mini Stars, each Banana you have at the end of the games held at DK’s Jungle Ruins will add one Party Point to your account.

DK’s Jungle Ruins Tour

Banana Spin Wheel

This is bananas!

Land on one of the four glowing DK Spaces around the ruins to trigger a very special event. All of the board’s Bananas and Z-Bananas will begin to spin around the ruins.

When you see a long row of Bananas headed your way, press 2 to start snatching them up!

This is one of the best ways to boost your Banana count at DK’s Jungle Ruins, so make good use of special Dice Blocks and try to land on those DK Spaces often!

Barrel Cannon to Banana Catapult

Land on the board’s left Lucky Space, and you’ll be boosted to a nearby isle by way of Barrel Cannon. Bananas abound over here—see the next section for details!

Banana Catapult (Lucky Space Area)

This tiny island floats to the left of the main ruins, and can only be reached by landing on the board’s left Lucky Space. Over here, Diddy Kong will instruct you to rapidly press A for five seconds.

The more times you press A, the higher you’ll be boosted up into the line of Bananas above! Give it all you’ve got and hammer that A button to nab as many Bananas as you can.

Barrel Choice

This is like shooting Bananas in a barrel!

Cruise to the top of the ruins to reach the Captain Event space. The nearby temple ruins then retract, revealing a row of four wooden barrels.

A bounty of Bananas soon tumbles into the barrels from above, and one of the barrels will receive many more fruit than rest.

The barrels are then shuffled around—if you’re the captain, keep your eye on the one that’s brimming with Bananas, and don’t let Diddy Kong’s antics distract you!

The captain gets to choose which player gets which barrel, so take the best one for yourself and let the rest sort themselves out!

When you revisit this Captain Event on your second lap, the barrels will shuffle even faster, and DK will join Diddy in distracting you. Do your best to grab the right barrel!

Barrel Cannon to Spinning Diddies

Park on this Lucky Space, and you’ll be fired from another Barrel Cannon. This one sends you to a tiny isle to the right—see the next section for more!

Spinning Diddies (Lucky Space Area)

This little island lies to the right of the main ruins, and features a trio of spinning statues bearing Diddy Kong’s likeness. Watch the statues as they spin, and press A to stop them.

Diddy Kong Mini Game

After making your first lap around the ruins, you get a surprise visit from Donkey Kong. The big ape calls out to his little buddy Diddy Kong, who invites you to play a special minigame!

Diddy leads you to a secret part of the ruins, where a wide ring of barrels surrounds a big spread of Bananas. Each player begins in a barrel. Hold the Wii Remote sideways and press 2 to boost out, grabbing Bananas on your way across the grove!

At first, just keep hammering 2 to quickly boost between barrels and collect as many Bananas as possible.

When the pickings become slim, start using the barrels’ guide arrows to line up and launch toward the few Bananas that remain. You may need to zip to another barrel before you can set up a good line of travel, but don’t waste too much time!

TIP

The barrels’ guide arrows change to the color of the player who’s seated inside. This helps you keep track of your character during this wild Banana scramble!

NOTE

If a rival is already seated inside a barrel that you’re headed toward, you’ll bounce harmlessly off of him or her and land in a nearby barrel instead. Midair collisions are also possible, causing you to tumble off-course!

This mad dash for Bananas ends when time ticks down or there are no more Bananas left to grab. You can score big during this event if you’re lucky, so give it all you’ve got!

NOTE

Whoever happened to be the captain when Diddy Kong’s minigame began gets to pocket some bonus fruit at the end of the event. Yum!

Toad Checkpoint

During your second lap around the ruins, a friendly Toad calls out to you when you reach this spot on the board’s left side.

The player with the fewest amount of Bananas gets a Slow Dice Block, which can really turn their luck around here at DK’s Jungle Ruins. Use that Slow Dice Block to land on those DK Spaces and rake in the fresh tropical fruit!

CAUTION

Bowser’s evil knows no bounds. The big blowhard even shows up here at DK’s Jungle Ruins, transforming several spaces into Bowser Spaces when you arrive at the Toad checkpoint.

Use special Dice Blocks to skirt these terrible spots!

Donkey Kong Mini Game

You hear the call of the wild upon completing your second lap around DK’s Jungle Ruins. Donkey Kong wants you to follow him to a secret place that’s filled with even more fruit!

In this exciting event, a row of barrels lines the ground, with a host of Bananas floating up above.

Hold the Wii Remote sideways and press 2 to blast out of the barrels, then press left or right to steer yourself in midair, aiming to claim as many Bananas as you can!

The biggest bunches hover way up on high. Rocket up to the moving barrel that drifts above the lower hanging fruit, then soar upward to claim even more tropical delights!

Those Bananas just keep coming, so don’t stop launching until time runs out. See if you can impress DK with your fruit-harvesting skills!

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