If you haven’t noticed, your Miis are kind of obsessed with you in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. They ask you for relationship advice, they want to know things about you, and of course, they want to play Tomodachi Life minigames with you. There are a variety of minigames that you may encounter, some more challenging than others, but they’re worth playing to earn some sweet (or incredibly silly) prizes.

How To Know When Miis Want To Play

You’ll know Miis want to play minigames when flashing green rectangles appear over Miis’ heads. Simply click on them to find out which game they want to play with you. You can opt not to play with them, but there’s really no reason not to play, as losing doesn’t have negative consequences for your Mii. 

Rewards For Playing Minigames

If you win Tomodachi Life minigames, you don’t win money or Warm Fuzzies. Instead, you are presented with three baskets — small, medium, and large. These represent the size of what’s in the basket, but other than that, it’s pretty unpredictable. You can get all kinds of different treasures, from pets to solar panels to singular earbuds. Even when you win, you’re not guaranteed a nice gift, as I pulled a dirty sock from the middle basket. Much like most things in Tomodachi Life, the gifts are random. Pulling something good is based on luck.

Now, you don’t go home empty-handed if you lose. Your Miis will console you by gifting you toilet paper or a box of tissues. Feels more like mocking than consoling if you ask me — maybe it would be better to not get anything at all. 

Quiz Games

The majority of Tomodachi Life minigames are quizzes, which involve you making guesses based on some kind of image your Miis show you. Each game has three rounds. That said, you don’t get to finish the game if you make an incorrect guess. 

Zoom Quiz

This minigame is exactly what it sounds like. You’ll be shown three very zoomed-in shots of objects, and then you have to guess what they are. 

Shadow Quizzes

There are actually three kinds of Shadow Quiz minigames in Living the Dream, but all of them have the same basic gist — you are given a blacked-out image and have to guess what it is. First, there’s the regular Shadow quiz, which will show you images of things and foods (which can include custom items you’ve made!). Then there’s the Double Shadow Quiz, where two blacked-out images — again of food and things —  will be on top of each other. You’ll have three options, and you have to select two of them. 

These item-based games can be tricky because the outline of a lot of foods just looks like a plate. You could try to cheat some of the options by looking up images of the Living the Dream foods, but often it may just have to come down to a lucky guess.

Finally, there’s the Mii Shadow Quiz, where you are given the outlines of your Miis and have to guess who is behind the shadow. 

Pixel Quiz

With the Pixel Quiz, Miis will give you pixelated editions of Living the Dream items, and you’ll have to guess what’s behind the pixels.

Latte Art Quiz

If you have the Tomoria Restaurant unlocked, you may encounter the Latte Art Quiz. Slide into a booth with your Mii, and they’ll show you cups of coffee with swirly images of island residents. All you have to do is guess whose image has been swirled.

No Repeats

In this Tomodachi Life minigame, the Mii chooses a topic like food. Then you trade off listing topic items (you get a list of three options to choose from) until one of you says a non-topic item, one of you says a topic item that’s already been said, or you take too long to answer. This can go on for a little while if you keep answering correctly. There is also a group edition of No Repeats, where more Miis are involved, which makes it trickier as now it’s not just one Mii’s answers you need to remember. 

Coin Spin

Coin Spin is your classic game of heads or tails. Just pick your favored side and watch the coin (which will feature the head of one of your Miis in a wig) with bated breath to see if you get lucky. 

Moving Cups

This Tomodachi Life minigame is another Tomoria special. It’s the classic cup game: you have to follow the cup, hiding a coin underneath as the Mii moves them around. There are three rounds, each with faster movement of the cups. As a heads up, in the third round, Miis tend to do a last-minute switch-up, so stay focused until those winning boxes show up!

What’s Missing?

The What’s Missing? minigame can trigger once you have a mansion (the Mii will be sitting at the table). The Mii will show you two images of foods or treasures. You have to point out what item is not shown. The Mii will count down from three, which can feel overwhelming, but you generally don’t need that much time to pick. That said, sometimes the items overlap so much that one becomes completely hidden. At that point, it’s another Tomodachi Life lucky guess.

Bowling

Instead of having your Miis bowl like they do in Wii Sports, here your Miis are the pins that need to be knocked down. The number of Mii pins varies, and the more Mii pins you have, the more rolls you get. For example, with seven Miis, you get three rolls. With ten Miis, you get four rolls.

Poke The Ferris Wheel

Unlocking the Ferris Wheel also unlocks the Poke the Ferris Wheel minigame where, shockingly, you have to poke the Ferris Wheel. The goal is to end the game with the gondola at the top of the wheel. You get three pokes, which you can make more powerful by holding A. But you have to use all three pokes, so make sure to pace your pokes.

Red Light Green Light

Another game taken straight out of real life, Red Light Green Light asks you to try and sneak up behind a Mii within 30 seconds. On green light, the Mii won’t look, and you can approach them by dragging your right joystick. When Miis call red light, you have to stop moving as they whip their head around. It’s a pretty simple game, until they perform a fakeout by calling green light and then immediately calling red light again. It might be wise to wait a second before moving after they call green light, lest you get caught in their trap.

Odd One Out

This last Tomodachi Life minigame is a group minigame (a cluster of four Miis will have the green rectangles!) where you have to pick which Mii in a lineup of four doesn’t belong. The Mii might be wearing a different costume than the rest or posing differently. It’s memory-based, as you only have a second or two to spot the difference before having to answer.

It’s very much random as to which game your Miis want to play. You can have a fairly high-leveled island and still not have run into all of the games, even the ones that don’t require a facility to unlock.