Gold Ring (New Super Mario Bros. 2)

This article is about the golden rings from New Super Mario Bros. 2. For information about the item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, see here.

Gold Ring
Description
A big golden ring.
First Appearance	New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012)
Effect on Player	Turns some enemies into golden coin-producing versions of themselves.

Gold Rings are objects that appear in New Super Mario Bros. 2. They are similar in appearance to the Coin Rings from Super Mario 3D Land. If Mario or Luigi passes through one of these, all enemies will turn golden, twinkling effects are added to the game screen and the music slightly changes with "sparkly" sounds added to it. If Mario is in Gold Mario form, he will earn more coins than usual.

Most golden enemies leave trails of coins behind as they move, or even throw coins instead of their usual projectiles and five coins are given for each defeated enemy. If multiple enemies are defeated consecutively (either by stomping on them without touching the ground or using a Koopa Troopa shell), the number of coins earned is 10, 15 and 20 for the second, third and fourth enemies, respectively. After four enemies, 50 coins are given for each consecutive enemy. However, in the E3 trailer of New Super Mario Bros. 2, only 5 coins were given even when golden enemies were defeated in succession.

Enemies List

Name	Description
Boo species	Leaves behind coins as they float away from Mario/Luigi.
Bullet Bill / Banzai Bill	Leaves rows of coins behind as they fly, similar to Koopa Troopas.
Cheep-Cheep	Has a trail of five coins following it as it leaps out of the water.
Goomba species	Acts just like normal Goombas.
Hammer Bro. / Fire Bro. / Boomerang Bro.	Throws three coins at a time instead of their respective projectiles.
Koopa species	Leaves a trail of coins behind in its wake when its shell is kicked.
Lakitu	Drops three coins at a time instead of Spinies, similar to Lakitus that spawn from Lakitu Blocks in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Lakitu's Cloud	When ridden, the cloud generates coins similar to the Gold Block.
Piranha Plant / Super Piranha Plant	When defeated, coins spout out of the place they were found.
Spiny	Turns into coins, much like the silver P-Switch's effects on them in Super Mario World.

Gallery

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  Mario near a Gold Ring.

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  Gold Goomba

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  Gold Paratroopa

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  Gold Lakitu

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  Gold Bullet Bill

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  Gold Banzai Bill

References

New Super Mario Bros. 2
Playable Characters	Mario • Luigi
Supporting Characters	Princess Peach • Toad
Bosses	Bowser • Koopalings (Roy Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Larry Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa) • Reznor • Dry Bowser
Worlds	World 1 • World 2 • World Mushroom • World 3 • World 4 • World Flower • World 5 • World 6 • World Star
Items and Objects	Super Mushroom • Fire Flower • Super Leaf (Invincibility Leaf) • Mini Mushroom • Mega Mushroom • Gold Mushroom • Gold Flower • Star • Coin • 10 Gold Coin • 100 Gold Coin • Crown Coin • Star Coin • Moon Coin • Red Ring • Gold Ring • ? Block • Brick Block • Gold Block
Enemies & Obstacles	Amp • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Blaster • Big Bone Piranha Plant • Big Boo • Super Piranha Plant • Super Venus Fire Trap • Big Whomp • Bill Blaster • Baby Blooper • Blooper • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Bone Goomba • Bone Piranha Plant • Boo • Boohemoth • Boomerang Bro. • Boulder • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep-Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Climbing Koopa • Coin Coffer • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Firebar • Fire Bro. • Fire Chomp • Fire Snake • Fishbone • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Gray Bowser Statue • Grinder • Hammer Bro. • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mega Fuzzy • Micro-Goomba • Para-bomb • Paragoomba • Peepa • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Porcu-Puffer • Raining Debris • Rocket Engine • Scuttle Bug • Sledge Bro. • Spike Top • Spiked Ball • Spiny • Spiny Cheep-Cheep • Super Dry Bones • Super Thwomp • Swooper • Thwomp • Urchin • Venus Fire Trap • Whomp • Wiggler