Every game in the main series has a standard Party Mode in which up to four players play through a board, trying to collect as many stars as possible In every turn, each player rolls a die and progresses on the board, which usually has branching paths Coins are primarily earned by performing well in a minigame played at the end of each turn
On most boards, players earn stars by reaching a star space and purchasing a star for a certain amount of coins The star space appears randomly on one of several pre-determined locations and moves every time a star is purchased, usually occupying a blue space
Every Mario Party contains at least 50 to almost 110 minigames with a few different types Four-player games are a free-for-all in which players compete individually In 2-on-2 and 1-on-3 minigames, players compete as two groups, cooperating to win, even though they are still competing individually in the main game Some minigames in Mario Party are 4-player co-op, even though it doesn't say it In most situations, winners earn ten coins each
