Mystery
| Mystery | |
|---|---|
| Icon of an item from Paper Mario Sprite of a Mystery from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Icon of an item from Super Paper Mario 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:
- Mushroom Mushroom
- Super Mushroom Super Shroom
- Fire Flower Fire Flower
- Stone Cap Stone Cap
- Dizzy Dial Dizzy Dial
- Thunder Rage Thunder Rage
- Pebble Pebble - Hurts Mario for 1 HP
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:
- In a hidden block in the north of the Shy Guy Playground in the blue area of Shy Guy's Toy Box.
- In a hidden block on the beach of Lavalava Island.
- On a platform in the third lava/moving platform area in Bowser's Castle.
- On sale for 1 coin each at Boo's Shop.
- On sale for 5 coins each at the Storehouse.
- Dropped by enemies such as Groove Guys and Duplighosts.
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. Items marked with a Nintendo GameCube only appear in the GameCube version.
When used in battle, a Mystery has the effect of one of the following items:
- Dried Mushroom Dried Shroom Nintendo GameCube
- Mushroom Mushroom [a]
- Ultra Mushroom Ultra Shroom [a]
- Honey Syrup Honey Syrup [a]
- Jammin' Jelly Jammin' Jelly [a]
- Volt Mushroom Volt Shroom Nintendo GameCube
- Slow Mushroom Slow Shroom Nintendo GameCube
- Gradual Syrup Gradual Syrup Nintendo GameCube
- Repel Cape Repel Cape
- Stopwatch Stop Watch
- Fire Flower Fire Flower
- Shooting Star (item) Shooting Star
- Thunder Rage Thunder Rage
- Footnotes
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
- Long-Last Shake Long-Last Shake
- Shroom Shake Shroom Shake
- Super Shroom Shake Super Shroom Shake
- Ultra Shroom Shake Ultra Shroom Shake
Status-altering items
- Block Block Block Block
- Courage Shell Courage Shell
- Mighty Tonic Mighty Tonic
- Volt Mushroom Volt Shroom
Enemy-targetting items
Unused appearances[edit ]
Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit ]
The Mystery was originally set to reappear 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 ]
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 | |
| Life Mushroom (Paper Mario series) Life Shroom | |
| Mushroom Fry Mushroom Fry | |
| Peachy Peach Peachy Peach | |
| 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 ]
Names in other languages[edit ]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | なにがおこるかな Nani ga Okoru Ka Na |
I Wonder What Will Happen | [1] | |
| 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 | [?] |
See also[edit ]
References[edit ]
- ^ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.