Twist and Route

Twist and Route is a 4-player and duel minigame in Mario Party DS. As the name suggests, it is about twisting and routing the character's crank-up toy car to the finish line across a haphazard obstacle course.

Setting
The shrunk characters all race in toy cars that move when winded up. The minigame race appears to take place within indoors on a messy wooden floor, filled with all manner of mechanical obstacles such as clocks, screwdrivers, cogs and wrenches etc. that have to be avoided.

Gameplay
The aim of the game is to reach the finish line before the others do across an obstacle track. Use the stylus to draw clockwise swirls rapidly on the lower screen, to simulate the windup movement of the car whilst its stationary.

After giving it a good crank the car will proceed to move for a certain distance, before stopping - watch the upper screen and use the control pads to steer it left or right, to dodge obstacles blocking the car's path.

Once the car stops, the action of spinning swirls to wind it up has to be repeated again and likewise for the steering, until the race is finished.