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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 › Minigames

Growing Up

How to Play

Hold the Wii Remote sideways.
Depending on the button that appears onscreen, press the D-Pad, A, B, 1, or 2 to make your vine grow.

Growing Up...it happens to us all. But you won’t find any growing pains in this lively minigame! In Growing Up, you must be quick to press the right buttons that appear onscreen in an effort to make your vine grow taller.

The player with the tallest vine at the end of the event will tower over their peers!

Watch as the icons on the central block spin by like a slot machine. When the all that spinning stops, quickly press the button that’s shown on the block to make your vine grow.

The first player to guess correctly will grow their vine the most, while guessing wrong means no growth at all.

The icons will spin by faster or slower and for different lengths of time each turn. Don’t try to anticipate when they’ll stop; just be ready to hit the correct button the moment that they do.

There are five different button possibilities, so be prepared to press any button on your Wii Remote—even that tough-to-reach B button on the underside!

Note

When the D-Pad icon shows up on the block, pressing in any direction on the D-Pad will work.

Because the vines grow so high offscreen, it’s tough to tell who’s in the lead during close Growing Up matches.

Don’t worry about your rivals’ progress—just keep guessing correctly to keep growing your vine higher and higher. Gotta love the view from the top!

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