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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

Polar Extreme

How to Play

Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press the D-Pad to move and 2 to jump.
If you fall into the water, rapidly press 2 to climb back onto the ice.

This minigame is cool as ice! In Polar Extreme, players must rush from one drifting iceberg to the next, steadily sprinting along a treacherous and frigid course. A rescue boat lies at the far end of the run—first one there gets a hot cup of cocoa!

Careful: Those innocent-looking icebergs will teeter and crack as you jump on them, quickly breaking apart under the weight of you and your rivals. Just keep running and jumping as the bergs break up, aiming to land safely on the drifting chunks that remain. This will keep you above the waterline and out of that freezing sea.

Caution

Smaller icebergs will quickly sink when you hop to them. Hurry and jump to the next hunk of ice or you’ll take a frigid dip!

If you ever find yourself treading water, hammer 2 as fast as you can to quickly hop back up to dry ice. The faster you press 2, the quicker you’ll escape the freezing fluid. Now hurry and start running again to warm yourself up!

It’s not long before you see the bow of the rescue boat. Don’t try jumping onto the boat too soon; the ship drifts off a bit, and you’ll end up plunging into the bitter blue! Leap to the foreground icebergs instead and circle around the bow of the craft, aiming to leap aboard from the side. Now, how about that cup of cocoa?

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