Squared Away

Squared Away
Appears in	Mario Party 5 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Type	1-vs-3 minigame
Time limit	30 seconds

Squared Away is a 1-vs-3 minigame found in Mario Party 5, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. Its name is a play on the expression "squared away," used to refer to one who is skilled and ready to accomplish their tasks.

Introduction

The tiles for the grid drop down on the board while the solo player stands on a block in the upper left corner. All the blocks drop down: three big ones and one small one. The solo player jumps into the small one, and the minigame begins.

Gameplay

The solo player must avoid being crushed by the team players. Each team player covers four tiles with each roll, which is more than the solo player (which is only one per roll), but to counter this disadvantage, the solo player moves much more quickly than the team players. The solo player wins if they survive for 30 seconds. The team players win if one of them crushes the solo player.

The arena is a 12×12 tile grid in Mario Party 5 and Mario Party Superstars, which was reduced to a 10×10 grid in Mario Party: The Top 100. Mario Party 5's version contains several different aesthetics for the tiled floor: Mario, heart, Cheep Cheep, Yoshi Egg, blue Fire Flower, Goomba, and Mushroom, but Mario Party: The Top 100's and Mario Party Superstars' versions feature only a Mario aesthetic.

Mario Party 5 features no vocalizations, but in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, players vocalize for every step they make. The lone player also vocalizes when getting crushed, as does, in Mario Party Superstars's case, the character who crushed them.

Ending

The ending to Squared Away if the team wins in Mario Party 5

In Mario Party 5, depending on whoever wins, the loser(s) is/are chased by Thwomps in the background and trip(s) while the winner(s) perform(s) their victory pose(s) on top of (a) golden Thwomp(s).

In Mario Party Superstars, the winner(s) perform(s) their victory poses in the middle of the arena, while the loser(s) can be seen performing their losing poses in the top-left corner of the arena.

Controls

Mario Party 5

• – Move

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Move

Mario Party Superstars

• – Move

In-game text

Mario Party 5

• Rules – "Three players each climb into a giant cube and try to squish the fourth player, who's trying to escape in a smaller cube."
• Advice 1 – "The player in the smaller cube should make tight turns to escape the giant boxes."
• Advice 2 – "The three players in the giant cubes should cooperate and try to corner the fourth player."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Who will win? One small, nimble cube, or 3 huge, lumbering ones? Either way, it will be a crushing victory!"
• On-screen (Solo) – "Don't get crushed!"
• On-screen (Team) – "Crush the small box!"

Mario Party Superstars

• Solo side: "Don't get crushed."
• Team side: "Cooperate to chase down the solo player."

Gallery

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  Mario pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Heart pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Cheep Cheep pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Mushroom pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Yoshi Egg pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Blue Fire Flower pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Goomba pattern from Mario Party 5

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Mario Party Superstars

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  The ending in Mario Party Superstars

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ころころペッタン[?] Korokoro pettan	Roll and Squish
Dutch	Brijzelblokken[?]	Mash Blocks
French (NOA)	Ka-Bang qui roule...[?]	Thwomp that rolls... (Comes from the expression Pierre qui roule, n'amasse pas mousse)
French (NOE)	Thwomp qui roule...[?]	Thwomp that rolls... (Comes from the expression Pierre qui roule, n'amasse pas mousse)
German	Kubus der Verdammnis[?]	Damnation Cube
Italian	Twomp rotolante[?]	Rolling Thwomp
Korean	데굴데굴 꽈당![?] Deguldegul Kkwadang!	Roll and Pow!
Portuguese	Enquadrado ao Cubo[?]	"Trapped Cubed", enquadrar can mean either a slang for being trapped, caught, or being put into a square shape.
Russian	Стереть в пыль![?] Steret' v pil'!	?
Spanish (NOA)	¡Cúbrete de los cubos![?]	Cover Yourself from the Cubes!
Spanish (NOE)	Acoso al cubo[?]	Cubed Harassment (pun on various meanings on the word cubo meaning cube and a cubed number)