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List of Mario Party: Island Tour minigames
Amp My Style
Blown Hover
Bob-omb Aplomb
Bowser's Sky Scuffle
Bumper Thumper
Buzz a Fuzzy
Cannonball! (minigame)
Chain Chomp's Lava Lunge
Cheep Diamonds
Cheepers Keepers
Claiming the Cube
Color Correction
Color Me Fast
Diamond a Dozen
Drive for Show
Dry Bowser's Brain Bonk
Emergency Hexit
Fisticlouds
Fuel Me Once
Garden of Eatin'
Git Along, Goomba
Go with the Floe
Goomba to Maneuver
Goomba Tower Takedown
Great Bars of Fire
Grid is Good
Gyro for the Gold
Helter Shellter
Hide 'n' Splat
Hop Till You Drop
Horror Harriers
Kabob and Weave
King Bob-omb's Court of Chaos
Mad Ladders
Match Faker
Meteor Melee
Mild Gunman
Mr. Blizzard's Snow Slalom
Musical Snares
No-Traction Action
Pachinko Wizard
Paddle Skedaddle
Peep a Peepa
Point 'n' Shoot
Pokey Corral
Puzzle Pronto
Quickest Cricket
Rat-a-tat Flat
Rope a Slope
Shrub Hubbub
Sinking Feeling (minigame)
Sky'd and Seek
Slip 'n' Slip
Spin and Bear It
Spin the Bubble
Squish You Were Here
Starring Artist
Stretch Run
Sub Trouble
Tanks a Lot
The Choicest Voice
Three House
Tragic Carpet Ride
Trounce 'n' Bounce
Truckin' and Cluckin'
Utter Nonsense
Xylophone Home
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List of minigames in Mario Party: Island Tour

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This is a list of all 81 minigames in the Nintendo 3DS game, Mario Party: Island Tour .

1 General minigames
2 Boss minigames
3 Puzzle minigames
4 Extra minigames

General minigames [ ]

There are 69 General minigames in the game, the most of any Mario Party .

Claiming the Cube
Rope a Slope
Tragic Carpet Ride
Stretch Run
Grid is Good
Color Me Fast
Musical Snares
Buzz a Fuzzy
Cannonball!
Goomba to Maneuver
Kabob and Weave
Tanks a Lot
Xylophone Home
Mild Gunman
Spin the Bubble
Rat-a-tat Flat
Hide 'n' Splat
Sub Trouble
Garden of Eatin'
Peep a Peepa
Puzzle Pronto
Truckin' and Cluckin'
Color Correction
Slip 'n' Slip
Pachinko Wizard
No-Traction Action
Blown Hover
Spin and Bear It
Fisticlouds
Starring Artist
Pokey Corral
Great Bars of Fire
Paddle Skedaddle
Fuel Me Once
Git Along, Goomba
Cheepers Keepers
Drive for Show
Hop Till You Drop
Helter Shellter
Meteor Melee
Bumper Thumper
Horror Harriers
Cheep Diamonds
Trounce 'n' Bounce
Mad Ladders
Squish You Were Here
Go with the Floe
Amp My Style
Shrub Hubbub
Quickest Cricket
Diamond-a-Dozen
Bob-omb Aplomb
Gyro for the Gold
Point 'n' Shoot
Match Faker
Sky'd and Seek
Utter Nonsense

Boss minigames [ ]

There are six Boss minigames in the game. These are played during Bowser's Tower.

Goomba Tower Takedown
Chain Chomp's Lava Lunge
Mr. Blizzard's Snow Slalom
King Bob-omb's Court of Chaos
Dry Bowser's Brain Bonk
Bowser's Sky Scuffle

Puzzle minigames [ ]

There are three Puzzle minigames in the game.

Three House / Three House - Multiplayer
Emergency Hexit / Emergency Hexit - Multiplayer

Extra minigames [ ]

There are three Extra mini-games in the game.

The Choicest Voice
Sinking Feeling / Sinking Feeling - Multiplayer
3 Tug o' War

Mario Party: Island Tour

Mario Party: Island Tour features seven unique boards, a collectibles system, and makes use of the special functionalities of the Nintendo 3DS.

Casually announced during a Nintendo Direct, Mario Party: Island Tour brought the series to the Nintendo 3DS for the first time. Each of the seven boards featured a different objective and playstyle, all while abandoning the car mechanic introduced in Mario Party 9. A roster of ten characters included the first time addition of Bowser Jr. and the 81 minigames make use of the 3DS and its microphone, gyroscope, and 3D functionalities. Bowser’s Tower is a single-player focused mode where bubble version of characters are challenged in minigames as you ascend 30 floors. There’s also a few collectibles you can unlock that feature music files and figurines.

Hit either of the two links below for Mario Party: Island Tour board and minigame lists, along with tips and advice for each. Got a tip of your own? Make sure to submit any helpful advice with the submission form at the bottom of each tip page!

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Mario Party: Island Tour has a total of twelve playable characters.

*This character is playable for the first time and unlockable.

*This board is only playable in multiplayer mode. **This board is unlockable!

81 Mini-Games

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Mario Party: Island Tour Review

First Released Nov 22, 2013 released

Port-a-party.

By Heidi Kemps on November 22, 2013 at 11:44AM PST

When you hear "minigame collection," the first game that usually springs to mind is Mario Party. The series has been responsible for hilarious memories and strained relationships since the Nintendo 64 era, though the series hasn't always set a good example: some of the installments, like the miserable Mario Party Advance, have dragged you to the dregs of party hell. Fortunately, Mario Party: Island Tour is a raucous portable entry in the series that adds some refreshing new elements.

Island Tour adheres to the same structure as many of the other Mario Party games: two to four human or AI players move around a traditional board-game-style map in a competition, playing minigames for prizes and attempting to hinder other players throughout. Most Mario Party games have focused on the collecting of coins and stars to determine a winner at the end of a game, but Island Tour's boards feature different objectives and modes of play. Some, like Perilous Palace Path, simply require that you be the first to reach the goal, while others have you collecting items to see who can end the game with the most stuff. Even if the boards have a similar objective, there are other factors at play that alter gameplay significantly: Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain might let you summon a giant bullet that sends everyone in its path back several spaces, while Kamek's Magic Carpet Ride forgoes dice and assigns movement to an inventory of numbered cards, making your selections about how far to advance a strategic consideration. There's a nice bit of variety here, and the game helpfully gives ratings to luck, skill, and minigame categories when you're choosing a board to play on (though their accuracy is debatable). Most of the boards don't take too long to run through, but that's probably for the best given that the 3DS is a battery-based console, and nothing kills a party like running out of juice mid-game.

What would a race game be like if you drifted ALL THE TIME?

It's pretty easy to get things hopping, thanks to the 3DS Download Play feature. Much like Mario Party DS, Island Tour allows up to three additional players to access and enjoy the full game in multiplayer, even if they don't have their own copy. It takes a few minutes to send the game to other 3DSs--and, of course, they can't keep it once the host disconnects--but after the wait is over, the players have access to the entire game (though the host player controls all the settings and selections). It's a nice way to ensure that there's always an opportunity to get a party started as long as everybody has a system. Unfortunately, there's no way to play online. Yes, Mario Party is more fun in a local, group setting, but the omission of any sort of online option is puzzling, especially given that the 3DS supports friends lists and voice chat.

If you've got a party of one, however, Island Tour has a special single-player mode called Bowser's Tower. In this mode, your chosen character scales a tower, playing a minigame on each floor and winning to proceed. On every fifth floor, you face a boss character, and these fights are minigames in themselves. Compared to the single-player story mode in Mario Party DS, Bowser's Tower is weak: there's no variation on events depending on character choice; it takes a long time to complete a runthrough (and, if you're really unlucky, a bad roulette spin can send you back to the start); and you have to finish it more than once to unlock everything. Yet Bowser's Tower is a nice diversion, and as you play and complete board runs, Bowser's Tower, and individual minigames in either single- or multiplayer, you earn points that you can spend on unlockable content.

You can't always bite the bullet. Sometimes you just gotta run.

But the meat of any Mario Party is its minigame menagerie, and Island Tour has more winners than duds in its mix. While you have the expected minigames of the "collect stuff," "knock other players off a platform," and "dodge things coming at you" varieties, there are some more inventive offerings that make good use of the 3DS hardware. Since the 3DS offers a variety of control methods--controller, buttons, stylus, microphone, and gyroscopic motion--the minigames can use one or more of these elements to make more interesting snack-size experiences. This leads to some neat outings, such as Buzz a Fuzzy (a motion- and circle-pad-controlled archery minigame) and Match Faker (a memory-type game that lets you use the stylus to take notes). The game takes advantage of the fact that each player has their own display, resulting in things like the third-person, arena-based blasting in Tanks a Lot and the hyper-gliding ice racing in No Traction Action. There are even a few auxiliary minigames that use the oft-forgotten 3DS AR cards. Unlike in Wii Party, where only one player could use the GamePad, everybody is on equal footing with the same controls and view, and many of the minigames do a good job of both recognizing and taking advantage of that in their design.

But there are still some stinkers in the mix. Strictly luck-based minigames turn up in the rotation frequently, and they're not any fun. A few others feature sluggish controls that hamper your ability to move well. (In minigames that involved moving the system along with another control method, I found that the game had an obnoxious tendency to lose calibration when it shifted back to motion controls, which required an experience-interrupting recalibration.) Though you can switch between preset standard and easy minigames and turn mic-using games on or off, you still can't disable individual minigames or make a custom set, which is a disappointing oversight.

It's not a perfect party by any means, but some good design considerations, better-than-average variety, and always-enjoyable Mario thematics put Mario Party: Island Tour a few notches above your average video game bash-in-a-box. It's nicely portable, uses the hardware well, and has a mostly good minigame mix, making this the easy-to-play multiplayer vacation you've been looking for.

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Some great minigame designs that use 3DS features well
Offers a unique single-player mode
A few bad games in the bunch
No online play

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Mario Party: Island Tour - Review

Mario party: island tour’s content-rich multiplayer options are sullied by boring minigames and unfortunate system-jerking motion control..

Island Tour features three main modes: Party, Minigames, and the exclusively single-player Bowser’s Tower. I might as well start with the most laborious of the three, Bowser’s Tower, which is Island Tour’s “campaign mode,” if you will. To clear a floor of Bowser’s 30-floor tower, you must beat three CPU opponents in one of two randomly chosen minigames. The issue here is that the CPU players are locked on easy difficulty for nearly every floor save for the last few (where they are bumped up to an innocuous “normal” level), so the challenge isn’t so much in beating each floor as it is in staying awake long enough to do so. Need to collect the most bunnies? You’ll have double if not triple the number of your nearest competitor. Need to finish a race first? The CPU players won’t even be on the same screen when you gracefully cross the finish line. It really is that bad. Admittedly, there are a few interesting boss battles, which pop up every fifth floor, but they are over all too soon and the monotonous hour-long grind to the Tower’s top resumes again. Having finished, I’ll be perfectly content to never set foot in Bowser’s Tower again.

Party mode is much better, even for solo players. Defying classic Mario Party design, the game boards here each feature their own unique objectives rather than the classic “collect the most stars in a certain number of turns” formula. Instead, you’ll be ducking in and out of cover as you scale a mountain and avoid Banzai Bills, or collecting rocket boosters to reach the end of a Mario Galaxy-themed level. Though his tower is a chore, Bowser’s game board is one of the more interesting, as the goal is to actually end the game furthest from the finish line, where the malevolent turtle awaits the “first place” player. This departure is a welcome surprise and adds much-needed variety.

Unfortunately, great game board designs and the ambitious Download Play options don’t make up for Island Tour’s key detraction: the minigames themselves are mostly bland, and a handful are just bad. If you’ve played a Mario Party game before, you’ll recognize that a majority of the games are based around returning ideas. Knock your opponents off a shrinking platform, be the last player to avoid getting smashed by a Thwomp, reach the end of a small platforming course first... it all feels very familiar. What’s most egregious, though, is when the 3DS’ accelerometer is brought into the action, requiring awkward jerking and rotating to, say, steer a rolling ball or rotate familiar Mario characters to match their arrangement in an image. It never felt comfortable to me and, assuming you like to play with 3D on, the screen becomes difficult to see in the midst of all the movement.

To be fair, there are some minigames that use the touchscreen effectively. One of my favorites involves connecting stars to create constellations in the shapes of Mario baddies, and another tasks you with being the first to completely color in a series of black-and-white images. Simple, sure, but at least it feels new to the series and unique to the hardware. Also, in an odd departure for the series, there are no 2v2 or 3v1 minigames, either of which could have really broken up the monotony of the “last standing” free-for-all games that dominate the selection. In my time with Island Tour, I found I had the most fun in between the forgettable minigames while navigating the much more inventive game boards themselves. Unfortunately that reprieve is brief, as minigames pop-up every couple of minutes.

Island Tour’s Minigames mode strips away the boards and allows you to play each minigame individually or in a couple of different competitions, with conditions like seeing who can complete 10 games the fastest or being the first to win three, five, or seven games. The variety of ways to play is great, but focusing purely on Island Tour’s lackluster minigames makes this a mode I don’t want to visit all that often.

THE VERDICT

Mario Party: Island Tour’s single-player campaign is laughably bad, and the ambitious, content-rich multiplayer options and unique game boards are ultimately dragged down by mostly boring minigames and unfortunate system-jerking motion control. A group of friends might only have fleeting good times with this collection.

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Uninventive minigames
Motion control

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Feel the spirit of sleepless Moscow
Party the night away in one of the many Moscow bars
See what you can’t see during the day
Walk around historical part of city by night
Astonishing Kremlin views
Majestic architecture in colors of night
Enjoy great views from Sparrow Hills
Hypnotizing night city lights
Become a part of lively Moscow nightlife

Tour Itinerary:

Exploring night Moscow means to find yourself in totally different city! Monuments become more spellbinding and the streets with nightclubs, bars and cafes are lively and ready to meet you. Feel the amazing atmosphere of night city and make sure that Moscow never sleeps.

Sample itinerary for the Moscow night tour:

This place is must-see not only during the day but also (especially!) at night. You will feel the real majesty of this place with its monuments, the beautiful illumination and be amazed with iconic Kremlin walls .

Sparrow Hills

Observation deck on Sparrow Hills with Moscow State University (Stalin skyscraper) is the great place to enjoy breathtaking views of city by night.

Beautiful City bridge leading to Gorky Park has fantastic views of Christ the Savior Cathedral and the Moskva River. Exploring Moscow attractions by riding a bike along the riverside pathways can be a unique adventure!

Historic City Centre

Walk along main Moscow streets : Tverskaya Street and historical lanes with a great variety of cafes and bars. Arbat is a legendary street to find all kinds of awesome! Enjoy the streets loved by citizens and tourists.

Night clubs and bars

Finish your night adventure with a drink in the nightlife hotspot Solyanka, or Patriarch bridge leading to Strelka with lots of stunning views on the way!

From our tour. Impressions of our American tourist:

We walked over the bridge where I got a better photo of the Kremlin to enter metro station to travel the one stop back to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. This cathedral has a fascinating story. It is Moscow's largest Orthodox cathedral. It was built between 1839-1883 as a memorial to those who fell fighting Napoleon's army in the War of 1812.

At its entry, the marble walls are covered with inscribed names of those whose lives were lost. For more than a century, it was the city's largest single structure, dominating the city skyline. In 1931, a few seconds demolished what had taken 50 years to build, following Stalin's orders.

The marble from the church and other valued materials and objects were stripped and removed to be used elsewhere, such as for creating art in the Metro stations. During Khrushchev's time, one of the world's largest outdoor swimming pools was built.

In recent years, the decision was made to rebuild the Cathedral; this time it took only 5 years at a cost of $150 million. While the city provided most of the funding, when the decision to rebuild was announced, the rubles poured in from the general population. Once again, photos were not allowed, but my friend bought a booklet, and she kindly let me use it so you can see its elaborate interior.

What you probably DO know about this cathedral is that the Russian punk band Pussy Riot performed a protest concert inside the church in 2012, resulting in their arrest and jail time for 3 of its members.

After my friend selected her icon from the gift shop, it was time to bid our favorite Muscovite guide farewell. Our Moscow guide has restored my faith in her generation. So wise and compassionate she is. She was extremely perceptive about our preferences and needs.

As my friend noted to me last night after we got back to our room, there wasn't a problem our guide didn't solve with calm and timely effectiveness. After she presented both of us with gifts tied with satin ribbon, she walked us across the plaza in front of the cathedral to our waiting cab. She told my friend that she reminded her of her own "Baba" and that she would send my friend a picture of her to show the resemblance.

Even with this affection on her part toward my friend, I know our guide would have delivered the same excellent guide service to us, topped with abundant grace and sensitivity. These characteristics are a part of her inner soul. Our positive regard of Moscow is because of our guide.

What you get:

+ A friend in Moscow.
+ Private & customized tour.
+ An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
+ An authentic experience of local life.
+ Flexibility during the tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
+ Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
+ A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
+ Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
+ An expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time.

*This Moscow by night tour can be modified to meet your preferences .

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The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
by Kings of Russia
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Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.