@Aaron, I was thinking for the card battle just as you have minigame squares, you have card battle squares where you battle each other. In single player this would be against the computer, obviously in multiplayer it'd be against your fellow players. For hp amounts maybe either have a stat 90 hp battle in case lots of people landed on the square.
As well as the board mode though, I'd also however love to see more random battle opponents, indeed I loved beating all the gyms and would love to see that expanded too, indeed you could make a pretty good rpg out of the card battles if you stuck in some levelling mechanics, earning cards from monsters and a story.
Imagine a manamon style game with gyms for card type unlocks, item uses in battle and monsters to slay. I'm probably dreaming at this point but who doesn't think that's a cool idea? .
Actually i suspect the reason we've not heard of a new crazy party version for a while is that Pragma has something pretty awesome up his sleeve for next time, indeed the lnext public version might be beta 48 or even 50 with lots of changes, suffice it to say that I'm really! looking forward to it, whatever gets added, and hay we're still waiting to see what we can do with all those perminant coins added to our boxes and all that xp.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)