Minimum Mario Any%

Minimum Mario Any% is a Minimum Mario challenge run where the goal is to beat the game while minimizing the amount of Mario moons in the run.

Mario moons

Minimum Mario Any% has never been completed to its theoretical minimum of Mario moons. This is mainly due to Moe-Eye Escape, a trick to get many otherwise inaccessible capture moons with a Moe-Eye, being incredibly hard to perform. Since the trick takes around 5-8 hours even if performed perfectly, there is little interest in humanly performing the entire run.

For Metro Kingdom, any Mario moons can be collected, but collecting the story moons unlocks more capture moons for Minimum Mario Max Moons as the Letter captures appear during postgame.

It is theorized that in Bowser's Kingdom, the Multi Moon can be collected as a Goomba using Goomba nut jumping, a theoretical trick in which the player can indefinitely bounce a Goomba stack off of a nut midair to get the Goomba stack to the arena, using nut jumping to get the nut under the Goomba stack each time. However, due to the use of nut jumping, this would require version 1.1.0 or earlier.

✔️ = required Mario moon

Kingdom	Mario Moon	All Versions
Sand Kingdom	Atop the Highest Tower	✔️
Metro Kingdom	New Donk City's Pest Problem (x3)	✔️
Metro Kingdom	Drummer on Board!	✔️
Metro Kingdom	Guitarist on Board!	✔️
Metro Kingdom	Bassist on Board!	✔️
Metro Kingdom	Trumpeter on Board!	✔️
Metro Kingdom	A Traditional Festival! (x3)	✔️
Ruined Kingdom	Battle with the Lord of Lightning! (x3)	✔️
Bowser's Kingdom	Showdown at Bowser's Castle (x3)	✔️
Total Mario Moons		17