Mystery

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Mystery
PaperMario Items Mystery.png Sprite of a Mystery from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Mystery Box SPM.png Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Paper Mario description Who knows what it does... Take a chance to find out!
The Thousand-Year Door description Who knows what this does? Take a chance and find out!
Super Paper Mario description What does this do? Only one way to find out...

A Mystery is an item found in Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario.

History[edit]

Paper Mario series[edit]

Paper Mario[edit]

The first appearance of the Mystery in Paper Mario goes under the name Mystery? When used in battle, a roulette will appear, containing the following items, that will be used right after the roulette stops on an item:

Mysteries? can also be used for cooking, yielding a Mistake half the time, and a randomly selected one of twenty-three recipes otherwise.

Throughout the game, Mysteries? can be found in the following locations:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a Mystery is sold for three coins at Pungent's Great Tree Shop and the Sales Stall. One Mystery can also be found in a bush in near the bridge in Petal Meadows.

When used in battle, a Mystery has the effect of one of the following items:

In the remake the selection is different:

1 - Later chapters replace Mushroom and Honey Syrup with their upgraded forms.

If it is cooked by itself or with any other item, it makes a Mistake half the time, and otherwise a random one of twenty items, mostly cooking recipes.

Super Paper Mario[edit]

Mysteries appear under their name Mystery Boxes in Super Paper Mario. When cooked, the outcome can be random, or more commonly, a Mistake. However, the set recipe is a Miracle Dinner. The Mystery Box can be bought in Flipside Arcade for five Flipside Tokens, at the Downtown of Crag for three coins, or carried by a Lakitu. Similar to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a roulette will cycle through a random selection of various items, and the item chosen is subsequently used.

A Mystery Box can contain one of the following items:

HP-restoring items

Status-altering items

Enemy-targetting items

Unused appearances[edit]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit]

The Mystery was originally set to re-appear in Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the Nintendo 3DS, as seen in early artwork, but is absent from the final game.

Recipes[edit]

Paper Mario[edit]

Recipe Result
PaperMario Items Mystery.png Mystery? Mistake Mistake
Apple Pie Apple Pie
Big Cookie Big Cookie
Bland Meal Bland Meal
Boiled Egg Boiled Egg
Dizzy Dial Dizzy Dial
Egg Bomb Egg Missile
Fire Flower Fire Flower
Fried Egg Fried Egg
Mushroom Fry Fried Shroom
Honey Mushroom Honey Shroom
Kooky Cookie Kooky Cookie
Koopasta Koopasta
Koopa Tea Koopa Tea
Life Mushroom (Paper Mario series) Life Shroom
Potato Salad Potato Salad
Sleepy Sheep Sleepy Sheep
Spaghetti Spaghetti
Special Shake Special Shake
Spicy Soup Spicy Soup
Fresh Juice Super Soda
Tasty Tonic Tasty Tonic
Thunder Rage Thunder Rage
Volt Mushroom Volt Shroom

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

Recipe Result
Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) Mystery Mistake Mistake
Egg Bomb Egg Bomb
Fire Flower Fire Flower
Fresh Juice Fresh Juice
Fried Egg Fried Egg
Honey Mushroom Honey Mushroom
Koopasta Koopasta
Koopa Tea Koopa Tea
Mushroom Fry Mushroom Fry
Sleepy Sheep Sleepy Sheep
Spaghetti Spaghetti
Spicy Soup Spicy Soup
Tasty Tonic Tasty Tonic
Thunder Rage Thunder Rage
Volt Mushroom Volt Mushroom
Zess Cookie Zess Cookie
Zess Dinner Zess Dinner
Zess Tea Zess Tea

Super Paper Mario[edit]

Recipe Result
Mystery Box SPM.png Mystery Box Mistake Mistake
Dangerous Delight Dangerous Delight
Electro Pop Electro Pop
Emergency Ration Emergency Ration
Fried Egg Fried Egg
Mushroom Fry Fried Shroom Plate
Hamburger Hamburger
Healthy Salad Healthy Salad
Herb Tea Herb Tea
Honey Candy Honey Candy
Inky Soup Inky Soup
Koopa Tea Koopa Tea
Mango Juice Mango Juice
Miracle Dinner Miracle Dinner
Peach Juice Peach Juice
Roast Horsetail Roast Horsetail
Mushroom Roast Roast Shroom Dish
Slimy Extract Slimy Extract
Snow Cone Snow Cone
Space Food Space Food
Spaghetti Spaghetti Plate
Spicy Soup Spicy Soup
Sweet Cookie Snack Sweet Cookie Snack

See also[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese なにがおこるかな[1]
Nani ga Okoru Ka Na
I Wonder What Will Happen
Chinese (simplified) 神秘?[?]
Shénmì?
Mystery? Paper Mario
会发生什么事呢[?]
Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne
I Wonder What Will Happen The Thousand-Year Door remake
Chinese (traditional) 會發生什麼事呢[?]
Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne
I Wonder What Will Happen
Dutch Verrassing[?] Surprise
French Mystère?[?] Mystery?
German Mysterium?[?] Mystery?
Überraschungsbox[?] Surprise Box Super Paper Mario
Italian Chissà cos'è[?] Who knows what it is
Korean 미스터리박스[?]
Miseuteori Bakseu
Mystery Box
Spanish Sorpresa[?] Surprise

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.