How many Yoshis have been mid-air dismounted into the void?
Vanilla SMW — estimated Yoshis jettisoned
560,000,000
Growing at an assumed ~3 Yoshis/second (~95 million/year)
Honest range: 100 million – 2 billion
Fan estimate, not an official stat
Combined grand total
640,000,000
Vanilla + Kaizo Wing · still a fan estimate
How we estimated this
A Fermi estimate — back-of-the-envelope, playfully serious:
SNES Super Mario World sold about 20 million copies.
Add GBA Super Mario Advance 2, Virtual Console, Switch Online, and emulators → assume ~40 million players ever (assumption).
~70% have dumped Yoshi at least once (assumption).
~20 pit drops per player on average — pulled up by speedrunners and kaizo hack players (assumption).
40M × 0.7 × 20 = 560 million
Excludes Yoshi’s Island, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. Base snapshot: 2026-09-24 00:00 America/New_York.
Did they actually die?
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, a Yoshi that falls into a pit or lava retreats into an egg and teleports to safety.
Fans argue dropped Yoshis survive.
Roughly 500 million Yoshis dropped. Possibly zero casualties.
Confess your sins
Vanilla drops: 0 · Kaizo drops: 0
Your drops are saved locally and added to the matching live total.
Kaizo Wing
Kaizo Wing — ROM-hack pits
SMW ROM hacks (kaizo = brutally hard fan-made hacks) are played on emulators.
Yoshi dismount is a standard kaizo technique — you often drop Yoshi on purpose, even on successful runs.
Estimated kaizo pit drops
80,000,000
Growing at an assumed ~0.5 Yoshis/second (~16 million/year)
Range: under 1 million – ~2.5 billion
Fan estimate
Sourced
~2,500 moderated SMW hacks on SMW Central; ~70,000 registered users — SMW Central
Top 10 kaizo hacks ~400,000 combined downloads as of Dec 2024 (Kaizo Mario World ~73k, Quickie World ~47k, Super Dram World ~44k) — archived SMW Central
527 SMW ROM hack game pages on speedrun.com — speedrun.com
A reviewer reported ~3,100 deaths to beat Baby Kaizo World — SMW Central details
Streamer Barb took ~2,300 attempts on a hitless Bowser in Kaizo Mario World 3 — defective.computer
Assumptions
~1.5M total kaizo downloads (about 4× the top 10)
~30% become real play
~45% hit Yoshi-over-pit sections
~400 Yoshi pit drops per such player
1.5M × 0.30 × 0.45 × 400 = ~81 million
Caveat: nobody has measured how often hacks put Yoshi over pits; downloads aren’t players. Base snapshot: 2026-09-24 00:00 America/New_York (rounded to 80M for the live counter).