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:

  • Mushroom
  • Honey Syrup
  • Stopwatch
  • Repel Cape
  • Fire Flower
  • Shooting Star
  • Thunder Rage

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 random item will appear which can be any item from a Catch Card to a Thunder Rage.

A Mystery Box can contain one of the following items:

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team[edit]

While Mysteries do not appear in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, another item known as a Secret Box with similar effects appears. Secret Boxes mimic a random badge effect, unlike Mysteries, which mimic a random item.

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.

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.