Mystery Box

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This article is about the box from Super Mario 3D Land. For the item from the Paper Mario series with the same name, see Mystery Box (item). For The Captain Command in Bowser Jr.'s Journey, see Chance.

Template:Item-infobox Mystery Boxes are an object debuting in Super Mario 3D Land.

History

Super Mario series

Super Mario 3D Land

In Super Mario 3D Land, they are found in most Worlds, with their primary task being to defeat all the enemies in the box within ten seconds. Enemies can range from Goombas to Boom Booms. When Mario completes the task, Coins and a Star Medal appear. Other items, such as 1-Up Mushrooms, Super Leaves and Fire Flowers are also found within Mystery Boxes. However, if Mario loses a life in a Mystery Box, he will be forced to quit the level. Whenever the player first encounters a Mystery Box on the world map, they are required to enter it before moving on. The Mystery Box theme is a remix of the Teleporter theme from Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Golden Mystery Box
A golden Mystery Box. Note that there are two Star Medals and even a P-Wing.

Mystery Boxes can also be golden on the inside, while still appearing purple on the outside. All of the golden-sided Mystery Boxes contain two Star Medals, and at least three 1-Up Mushrooms, with some containing as many as eight. No golden-sided Mystery Boxes contain enemies, and as such, Star Medals appear immediately upon entering a box. They can contain many different things, such as Poison Mushrooms, Toads, or even P-Wings. These Mystery Boxes have a cover of the main theme from Super Mario Bros. as the background music.

There are a total of 20 unique normal Mystery Box contents and 15 unique golden-sided Mystery Boxes contents. Golden-sided Mystery Boxes are less likely to appear than normal ones. Each normal Mystery Box can be found in two different Worlds, while each golden-sided one can only be found in a single World.

After completing a Mystery Box, it turns gray on the overworld map and "falls asleep", rendering it inaccessible. It may be accessed again 20 hours later. The contents of each Mystery Box changes each time it is re-entered.

Mystery Boxes can also be accessed via StreetPass (a wireless feature that automatically exchanges information with other 3DS holders while the system is in sleep mode). The only difference in a StreetPass Mystery Box is that it is guaranteed to have a Star Medal or two, unless of course all Star Medals have been collected.

Mystery Boxes also can appear in some levels of Super Mario 3D Land, which the goal is to collect as many coins from the blocks within the time limit. In the early versions of the game, these Mystery Boxes used the same design as that of the current Warp Box; similarly, the early Warp Boxes used the current Mystery Box design, albeit with an exclamation point instead of a question mark.[1] The colors were switched in the final version of the game.

Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

Mystery Boxes in Super Mario 3D World and its Nintendo Switch port can only be found in levels. Each of them has a Green Star which must be collected within the time limit. If Mario fails, he is sent back to the proper level. The Green Stars must be collected in different ways, like defeating every enemy present, navigating through a small obstacle course, or using given items or forms to reach it. Certain worlds also feature special courses called Mystery Houses, which consist of clearing a number of Mystery Box courses in quick succession. In one area of the Shifty Boo Mansion level, the Boo painting is the real Mystery Box and if the players pick the Mystery Box, it becomes a decoy and a Boo will appear to distract Mario.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Mystery Boxes also appear in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS ports, appearing only in Coins Galore bonus levels this time. After entering a Coins Galore level, Captain Toad or Toadette can select two Mystery Boxes: one that accesses a bonus area with Super Pickaxes and other that access a bonus area with Double Cherries. The task is to collect many coins or Gold Mushrooms within 10 seconds. After completing a Coins Galore level, it cannot be entered again. However, if the Toads complete every level of the game, these Coins Galore levels will be permanently open and can be accessed at any time from the Bonus Episode.

Contents

Super Mario 3D Land

  • Three Question Blocks, and two Hidden Blocks, two of which contain a single Coin, the other of which continues to produce coins as long as time remains on the Box's timer. The Hidden Blocks appear where there are gaps between the ? Blocks. Found in World 1-3.
  • Three long Question Blocks containing two Coins and a Super Leaf, a single set of three Coins, and multiple sets of three Coins respectively. Found in World 1-4.
  • Three Roulette Blocks. A yellow Toad will also be found here and will give a 1-Up Mushroom if the player watched his entrance into the hidden Box through a pair of Binoculars. Found in World 6-1.
  • Three Coin throwing Rocky Wrenches and a Star Medal. Found in World 8-5.
  • Forty-five Brick Blocks each containing a coin, three Hidden Blocks each containing a coin and one Hidden Block containing a 1-Up Mushroom. Found in Special 1-3.

World Map Mystery Boxes

Defeating every enemy in a Box will cause 15 Coins and a Star Medal to appear.

  • Three Piranha Plants. Found in World 1 and World 6.
  • Three Goombas. Found in World 1 and Special 1.
  • A red Biddybud walking around a Fire Flower. Found in World 1 and Special 3.
  • A Fire Flower, a Goomba Tower, two Goombas high, and a Fire Piranha Plant. Found in World 2 and Special 3.
  • Two Tail Goombas and a Piranha Plant. Found in World 4 and Special 5.
  • A Goomba and a Piranha Plant. Found in World 4 and Special 5.
  • A yellow, green, and red Biddybud, a Fire Flower, and a Super Mushroom. Found in World 6 and Special 7.
  • Two Fire Piranha Plants and a Fire Flower. Found in World 2.
  • Two Tail Goombas and a Super Leaf. Found in World 2.
  • A Biddybud of each of the species' five colors walking in a circle. Found in World 2.
  • Two Goomba Towers, two Goombas high each. Found in World 6.
  • A Hammer Bro and a Boomerang Flower. Found in Special 1.
  • A Goomba and a Super Leaf. Found in Special 1.
  • A Boomerang Bro and a Boomerang Flower. Found in Special 3.
  • A Hammer Bro and a Boomerang Bro. Found in Special 5.
  • A Hammer Bro, a Boomerang Bro, and a Boomerang Flower. Found in Special 7.
  • Three Fire Piranha Plants. Found in Special 7.
  • Boom Boom requiring only one hit to defeat. Found in Special 7.
  • Two Goomba Towers, two Goombas high each, and a Fire Flower. Found in World 2, World 4, and Special 7.
  • Two Goomba Boards and a Fire Flower. Found in World 1 and World 6.
Golden Mystery Boxes

In addition to the features listed here, each Box contains two Star Medals.

  • 15 Super Leaves and a P-Wing. Found in World 1.
  • The game's five supporting Toad characters. Found in World 1.
  • Nine Goomba Boards, five of which contain 1-Up Mushrooms and the others, Coins, and a Fire Flower. Found in World 2.
  • 10 Crates, 4 of which contain 1-Up Mushrooms, and two Question Blocks containing a Super Leaf and a Fire Flower respectively. Found in World 4.
  • 12 cacti, four of which contain 1-Up Mushrooms, and a Boomerang Flower. Found in World 6.
  • Seven white dandelions, four yellow dandelions containing 1-Up Mushrooms, and a Question Block containing a Super Leaf. Found in World 6.
  • Four P-Switches pressing each of which causes a 1-Up Mushroom to appear. Found in World 6.
  • Seven 1-Up Mushroom Boards, four of which contain real 1-Up Mushrooms, a fifth 1-Up Mushroom, and a Question Block containing a Fire Flower. Found in Special 1.
  • Six 1-Up Mushrooms and six Poison Mushrooms. Found in Special 5.
  • 12 Question Blocks containing Coins and four invisible Question Blocks containing 1-Up Mushrooms. Found in Special 5.
  • Three Question Blocks containing 1-Up Mushrooms and a Question Box. Found in Special 7.
  • Four unlit torches and a Fire Flower. Lighting the torches causes four 1-Up Mushrooms to appear. Found in Special 7.
  • 1-Up Mushrooms. Found in Special 1.
  • Flowers, some of which contain 1-Up Mushrooms. Found in Special 3.
  • Plants, some of which contain 1-Up Mushrooms. Found in Special 7.

Super Mario 3D World

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Completing the following objectives will make a Green Star appear:

Level Number Level Name Objective
World 1-2 Koopa Troopa Cave Defeat two Koopa Troopas
World 1-5 Switch Scramble Circus Destroy the crate in the left-hand corner to reveal the Star
World 2-3 Shadow-Play Alley Press the P-Switch to uncover the Green Star
World 3-3 Shifty Boo Mansion Dodge the Peepas in the rotating room to reach the Star
World 3-6 Mount Must Dash Catch the Rabbit
World 4-2 Piranha Creeper Creek Use four Piranha Creepers as platforms to reach the Star
World 4-4 Big Bounce Byway Jump with a disabled Hop-Chop or use the Cat transformation to climb to the Star
World 4-Castle Lava Rock Lair Press the 3 P Panels to reveal the Star
World 5-7 Searchlight Sneak Climb the stairs to the Star while dodging Cat Bullet Bills
World 6-3 Hands-On Hall Defeat in the Spike in the exterior cage
World 6-5 Ty-Foo Flurries Skate to the Star while dodging walls and skating Goombas
World 6-6 Bullet Bill Base Navigate the circular vertical conveyor belt to reach the Star
World Castle-4 Boiling Blue Bully Belt Push a Bully into the lava
World Bowser-1 Spiky Spike Bridge Climb up the wall to the P Switch to reveal the Star and climb the opposite wall to retrieve it
World Bowser-3 Cookie Cogworks Navigate the giant cookie rotating counterclockwise to reach the Star
World Bowser-4 Footlight Lane Navigate the invisible floors and dodge the Thwomp to reach the Star
World Bowser-6 A Beam in the Dark Defeat six Boos with Light Boxes or the Lucky Bell
World Star-3 Rolling Ride Run Rotate the room to the right or use the Cat transformation to reach the Star
World Star-5 Super Block Land Extend the blocks in the room or use the Cat transformation to reach the Star
World Star-8 Peepa's Fog Bog Throw a snowball at the Star to collect it; going near it causes it to vanish
World Star-8 Peepa's Fog Bog Throw a snowball at the Star to collect it; going near it causes it to vanish
World Flower-1 Switch Shock Circus Turn on all four switch panels on the wall to reveal the Star

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ミステリーボックス[2]
Misuterī Bokkusu 		Mystery Box
Chinese 神秘箱[?]
Shénmì Xiāng 		Mystery Box
German Rätselbox[?] Mystery Box
Italian Cubo Mistero[?] Mystery Cube
Portuguese Caixa Mistério[?] Mystery Box
Russian Ящик с секретом[?]
Yashchik s sekretom 		Box with secret
Spanish Caja misteriosa[?] Mysterious box

References

  1. ^ Super Mario 3D Land: E3 2011 Beta. YouTube. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Shogakukan. 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook, Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World sections, pages 186 and 233.
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Super Mario 3D Land
Playable characters Mario • Luigi
Forms Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Tanooki Mario • Boomerang Mario • Invincible Mario • White Tanooki Mario • Statue Mario
Non-playable characters Princess Peach • Toad • Toads
Enemies Banzai Bill • Biddybud • Big Boo • Big Cosmic Clone • Big Tail Goomba • Blokkablok • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bullet Bill • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Cosmic Clone • Draglet • Dry Bones • Fake Block • Fire Piranha Plant • Flophopper • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Grinder • Hammer Bro • Inky Piranha Plant • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble • Magikoopa • Magmaargh • Monty Mole • Morty Mole • Para-Biddybud • Paragoomba • Peepa • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prongo • Rocky Wrench • Sandmaargh • Spike Eel • Spiny • Stingby • Tail Bob-omb • Tail Boo • Tail Bullet Bill • Tail Goomba • Tail Thwomp • Thistle • Thwomp • Wallop
Obstacles Baddie Box • Ball 'N' Chain • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Fire Bar • Giant spiked ball • Jet engine • Lava • Lava Geyser • Poison • Retractable spikes • Spike Pillar • Spiked ball • Spike Bar • Spike Block • Spiked roller
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Locations Main worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8
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Other Mushroom Kingdom • Peach's Castle • Sub-area • Toad Houses
Moves Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Ground Pound • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Side Somersault • Slide • Swim • Wall Jump
Gameplay elements Completion • Item storage • StreetPass Gift • Tail Tree • UFO • Warp Zone
Further info Gallery • Glitches • "The Mario Drawing Song" • Media • Pre-release and unused content • Staff
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Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury / Bowser's Fury
Playable characters Mario • Luigi • Peach • Toad • Rosalina • Captain Toad • Blue Toadb • Green Toadb • Yellow Toadb • Bowser Jr.c
Forms Small Mario • Mario (form) • Cat Mario • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario • Fire Mario • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario • White Tanooki Mario • Lucky Cat Mario • White Cat Mariob • Giga Cat Marioc
Non-playable characters Sprixie Princesses • Sprixies • Rabbits • Mega Rabbit • Toads • Plessie • Lumas • Ghost Miisa • Toadettec • Kittensc • Neko Parentc
Enemies Ant Trooper • Banzai Bill • Biddybud • Big Ant Trooper • Big Boo • Big Galoomba • Blockstepper • Blooper • Blurker • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Brolder • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cat Banzai Bill • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba • Chargin' Chuck • Charvaargh • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Disaster Nekoc • Fighter Flyd • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fireballd • Fizzlit • Flopter • Freezied • Fury Shadowc • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Galoomba • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Grumblump • Hammer Bro • Hop-Chop • Horned Ant Trooper • Ka-thunk • Innertube Goomba • Lava Bubble • Madpole • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba • Octoomba • Para-Biddybud • Parabones • Peepa • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer • Rammerhead • Ring Burner • Shellcreeperd • Sidestepperd • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spiny • Spiny Skipsqueak • Splorch • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp • Ty-foo • Unshelled Koopa • Walleye
Obstacles Baddie Box • Bill Blaster • Cannon • Dark • Fire Bar • Fury Sunc • Fuzzy Horde • Lava • Poison • Poison fog • Quicksand • Spike ball • Spike Block • Spike Trap • Spiked roller • Volcanic debris
Bosses Bowser • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat • Boss Brolder • King Ka-thunk • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob • Meowser • Fury Bowserc • Giant Bowserc
Items and power-ups + Clock • 1-Up Mushroom • Baseball • Blue Coin • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cannon Box • Cat Shinec • Cat Shine Shardc • Coin • Coin Box • Coin pile • Crown • Double Cherry • Fire Flower • Giga Bellc • Gold Shell • Goomba Mask • Green Shell • Green Star Coin • Green Star • Hidden Coin • Ice Skate • Invincibility Bellb • Invincibility Leaf • Keyc • Key Coin • Light Box • Lucky Bell • Mega Mushroom • Plessie Medalc • Potted Piranha Plant • Propeller Box • Red Coin • Snowball • Springboard • Stamp • Super Bell • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Super Star
Objects ? Block • Arrow platform • Arrow Sign • Assist Block • Beep Block • Big Block • Binoculars • Bowser Board • Bowser Statue • Brick Block • Bubble • Cactus • Cagec • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch • Checkpoint Flag • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Cog • Color Panel • Conveyor Belt • Crab • Crate • Crystal Block • Dash Panel • Donut Block • Empty Block • Falling spikec • Fling Polec • Floating couch • Floord • Flower • Fluff • Fury Blockc • Gift Box • Goal Pole • Goal Pole (flying) • Gold Ring • Gong • Graffitic • Green Star Ring • Ground-Pound Switchc • Hexagon • Hidden Block • Illusion • Jump Panel • Kick Bomb • Lift • Lighthousec • Long ? Block • Multi-Vator • Mushroom Trampoline • Mystery Box • P Panel • P Switch • Pipe • Pixel Luigi • Propeller Platforma • Red POW Block • Red Ring • Red-Blue Panel • Rising pillar • Rock Block • Rocket • Rotating Panel • Roulette Block • Seagullc • Searchlight • Seesaw • Sliding door • Slot Block • Small bird • Splotchy goopc • Super Jump Panelc • Swing • Switch Block • Switch Panel • Switchboard • Super POW Block • Tank • Timer Gatec • Torch • Touchstone • Trample Switch • Trapeze • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Box • Warp Box (With Key) • Warp Door • World Warp Pipe • Zipline lift
Locations Normal worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Castle • World Bowser
Special worlds World Star • World Mushroom • World Flower • World Crown
Lake Lapcatc Fur Step Island • Scamper Shores • Pounce Bounce Isle • Fort Flaptrap • Slipskate Slope • Clawswipe Colosseum • Trickity Tower • Crisp Climb Castle • Risky Whisker Island • Pipe Path Tower • Roiling Roller Isle • Mount Magmeow • Lucky Isle
Other Sprixie Kingdom • Mushroom Kingdom • Sprixie Houses • Toad Houses • Mystery Houses • Lucky Houses
Moves Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Diveb • Floating Jump • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jumpb • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Scuttle • Shell dash • Side Somersault • Slide • Spin • Spin Jump • Swim • Synchro Ground-Pound • Wall Jump
Gameplay elements amiibob • Captain Toad's Adventures • Completion • Enemy Battles • Luigi Bros. • List of Cat Shine names in other languagesc • List of Pixel Luigi sightings • List of stamps • Miiversea • Points • Snapshot Modeb • Toad Brigadeb
Musical compositions "Super Bell Hill" • "Mario's Colour Panel" • "Super Block Land"
Further info Gallery (SM3DW+BF • BF) • Glitches (SM3DW+BF) • Media (SM3DW+BF) • Original soundtrack • Playable characters' statistics (SM3DW+BF) • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (SM3DW+BF)
a Exclusive to the Super Mario 3D World campaign in the Wii U version
c Exclusive to Bowser's Fury
d Exclusive to Luigi Bros.
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Wii U) / Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS)
Characters Playable Captain Toad
• Toadette
• Purple Captain Toad
Supporting Hint Toad
• Yellow Toad
• Green Toad
• Mole
Episodes Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Bonus Episode
• Special Episode
Bosses Draggadon
• Wingo
• Gold Draggadon
Enemies and obstacles Ant Trooper
• Biddybud
• Big Boo
• Big Piranha Plant
• Bill Blaster
• Blurker
• Boo
• Bull's-Eye Bill
• Bullet Bill
• Cat Goomba
• Chargin' Chuck
• Charvaargh
• Cheep Cheep
• Conkdor
• Cookatiel
• Fire Bro
• Flaptor
• Fuzzy
• Goomba
• Goomba Tower
• Innertube Goomba
• Magikoopa
• Mummy-Me
• Mud Trooper
• Para-Biddybud
• Peepa
• Piranha Creeper
• Piranha Plant
• Piranha Sprout
• Shy Guy
• Spike
• Spike ball
• Spiked ball
• Stingby
• Stumper
• Walleye
Items and objects 1-Up Mushroom
• ? Block
• Beep Block
• Brick Block
• Cannon
• Clear Pipe
• Coin
• Coin pile
• Color Panel
• Crown Chip
• Crystal Block
• Dash Panel
• Donut Block
• Double Cherry
• Flip Panel
• Girder
• Gold Mushroom
• Green Star
• Hidden Coin
• Invincibility Mushroom
• Key
• Key Coin
• Key Door
• Ladder
• Lift
• Mine Cart
• Multi-Vator
• Mystery Box
• P Panel
• P Switch
• Piranha Plant
• Pixel Luigi
• Pixel Toad
• Pluck Patch
• POW Block
• Power Moon
• Power Star
• Propeller Platform
• Pull Switch
• Rock Block
• Rotating platform
• Shiny Crown
• Spinwheel
• Stamp
• Super Crown
• Super Gem
• Super Mushroom
• Super Pickax
• Touchstone
• Tree
• Turning Floor
• Turnip
• Turnip Cannon
• Warp Box
• Warp Box (With Key)
• Warp Pipe
Miscellaneous Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Fun Quiz • Gallery • Luigi sightings
• Pre-release and unused content • Staff (Wii U • Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS) • Track That Treasure, Captain Toad!
Appears in version 1.0.0 of the Wii U version
Appears in version 1.1.0 of the Wii U version
Appears in the Nintendo 3DS version
Appears in version 1.0.0 the Nintendo Switch version
Appears in version 1.2.0 of the Nintendo Switch version
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