Deck Hands

Deck Hands
Mario Party 7 Mario Party: The Top 100
Appears in	Mario Party 7 Mario Party: The Top 100
Type	Battle minigame (Mario Party 7) Free-for-All minigame (Mario Party: The Top 100)
Time limit	10 seconds per turn
Music track	Without a Care
Music sample Mario Party 7: Mario Party: The Top 100:

Deck Hands is a luck-based Battle minigame in Mario Party 7 and a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100. This is the only minigame that uses the music track "Without a Care" (excluding the Mic Space minigame).

Overview

Before the minigame starts, the cards all fall from above and land in a pile in front of a Shy Guy. Sections of the floor then open, and platforms with the players on them rise.

In this minigame, players take turns choosing cards numbered one through thirteen from the table. The cards are facedown, making this a game of chance. Each player gets three turns to choose a card. In the first round, the order of play is random, but in the succeeding rounds, it goes by who got the lower-numbered cards. There is only one of each card numbered one to thirteen in the deck. The highest possible score is 36, and the lowest possible score is six. The player(s) with the highest total value of their cards win(s).

The one card remaining after the players have chosen the others then returns to the center of the table, and the camera switches views to show all the players and the Shy Guy. In Mario Party 7, the Shy Guy also does a win animation alongside the winner(s).

Controls

Mario Party 7

• – Select card
• – Confirm

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Left and right: Select card
• : Confirm

In-game text

Mario Party 7

• Rules – "Pick a card, any card! The player who picks the 3 highest cards is the winner!"
• Advice – "Card numbers range from 1 to 13. Watch the cards... and hope you get lucky!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Draw 3 cards. Whoever has the highest total at the end wins!"
• On-screen – "Pick the highest cards!"

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Naming

The minigame's name comes from the "all hands on deck" boatswain's call.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	３まいえらんで 3(San)-mai Erande	Pick Three		[?]
Dutch	Kaart van fortuin	Card of Fortune		[?]
French (Canadian)	Pige une carte	Draw a card		[?]
French (European)	Pink Jack	Pink Jack		[?]
German	Kartenraten	Cards Guess		[?]
Italian	Le tre carte	The three cards		[?]
Spanish (Latin American)	Afortunaipes	Portmanteau of afortunado (fortunate, lucky) and naipes (playing cards)	Mario Party: The Top 100	[?]
Spanish (European)	Unas manitas	A Handyman		[?]

Notes

• The winning animation Shy Guy does at the end is the same from Beach Volley Folly in Mario Party 4.

See also

• Stacked Deck
• Card Smarts