Shortcut Circuit

Shortcut Circuit is a 4-player and duel minigame in Mario Party DS. It is a bonus minigame where players can pick up as much coins as possible, with the number they collect being transferred to them in the board game. Here, the characters have to build bridges across each gap between the circuit lanes, where the coins are located.

Setting
The characters - whom are all shrunk in the game - appear to have been moved to a computer chip circuit. There are four long, separate columns of chip platforms for each character, spanning away along the length of the circuit.

Gameplay
The aim of the game is to collect as much coins as you can, which will be transferred to your character in the board play. Each coins are scattered in gaps over the green circuit between each chip platform; to access them, you need to drag a left or right bridge piece from the bottom of the screen, then drop it over the nearby coin you want to collect.

There are two types of coins featured throughout; the standard yellow ones which may appear in singles or doubles, and red coins which are worth triple the value. Be sure to pick up the red coins when possible.

Each bridge piece can only be walked over once before they disappear. Although the bridges are marked in their character's colour, beware that they can be walked across by any player as well.

Trivia

 * The name is an obvious pun of the term 'short circuit', which is when electricity flows through the wrong part of the current, triggering an electrical fault in the device.