Mystery Box (item)

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This article is about an item in the Paper Mario series. For the item in Super Mario 3D Land, see Mystery Box.

A Mystery Box 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]

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The first appearance of the Mystery Box 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:

These items can also be used for cooking, but the player must be aware that the item used in the recipe will be random, so the item may generate a Mistake if the player is unlucky.

Such items are on sale at Boo's Shop and the Bowser's Castle shop. They can also be found in a hidden block in the Shy Guy playground of Shy Guy's Toy Box, in a hidden block near the shores of Lavalava Island, and in the lava area of Bowser's Castle.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mystery is sold for three coins at the Sales Stall and the Pungent's Shop. When used in battle, a Mystery makes a completely random item appear that could be anything from a Poison Shroom to an Ultra Shroom to a Shooting Star. If it is cooked with a Point Swap, it makes any recipe. One Mystery can also be found in a bush in near the bridge in Petal Meadows.

Super Paper Mario[edit]

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Mystery Boxes appear under their current name 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.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit]

The Mystery Box was originally set to re-appear in Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the Nintendo 3DS, as seen in early artwork. However, this item was removed for unknown reasons.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team[edit]

While Mystery Boxes 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 Mystery Boxes, which mimic a random item.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese なにがおこるかな[1]
Nani ga Okorukana		 What Will Happen?
Spanish Sorpresa Surprise
Italian Chissà cos'è Who knows what it is
Chinese 神秘？
Shénmì?		 Mystery?

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
Ingredients
Paper Mario Ingredients Apple • Blue Berry • Bubble Berry • Cake Mix • Coconut • Dried Fruit • Dried Pasta • Dried Shroom • Egg • Fire Flower • Goomnut • Honey Syrup • Iced Potato • Jammin' Jelly • Koopa Leaf • Lemon • Life Shroom • Lime • Maple Syrup • Melon • Mushroom • Potato Salad • Red Berry • Shroom Steak • Special Shake • Stinky Herb • Strange Leaf • Thunder Bolt • Ultra Shroom • Volt Shroom • Whacka Bump • Yellow Berry
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Ingredients Cake Mix • Coconut • Coconut Bomb • Couple's Cake • Courage Meal • Dried Bouquet • Dried Shroom • Egg Bomb • Fire Flower • Fruit Parfait • Fresh Pasta • Golden Leaf • Gradual Syrup • Healthy Salad • Honey Syrup • Horsetail • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Inky Sauce • Jammin' Jelly • Keel Mango • Koopasta • Koopa Tea • Life Shroom • Maple Syrup • Meteor Meal • Mr. Softener • Mushroom • Mystic Egg • Peachy Peach • Point Swap • Poison Shroom • Ruin Powder • Shooting Star • Shroom Fry • Shroom Roast • Shroom Steak • Slow Shroom • Snow Bunny • Spaghetti • Spicy Soup • Super Shroom • Tasty Tonic • Thunder Rage • Thunder Bolt • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Shroom • Volt Shroom • Whacka Bump • Zess Dynamite • Zess Tea
Super Paper Mario Ingredients Big Egg • Black Apple • Block Block • Blue Apple • Berry Snow Bunny • Bone-In Cut • Cake Mix • Chocolate Cake • Couple's Cake • Dayzee Tear • Dyllis Dinner • Egg Bomb • Fire Burst • Fresh Pasta Bunch • Fresh Veggie • Fried Shroom Plate • Fruity Hamburger • Gold Bar • Golden Leaf • Gorgeous Steak • Hamburger • Healthy Salad • Honey Candy • Honey Jar • Horsetail • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Inky Sauce • Keel Mango • Life Shroom • Long-Last Shake • Lovely Chocolate • Mango Juice • Meat Pasta Dish • Mild Cocoa Bean • Mousse • Mushroom Crepe • Mystery Box • Peachy Peach • Peach Juice • Pink Apple • Poison Shroom • POW Block • Power Steak • Primordial Fruit • Red Apple • Roast Shroom Dish • Sap Soup • Shooting Star • Shroom Shake • Shroom Steak • Sleepy Sheep • Slimy Shroom • Smelly Herb • Snow Bunny • Snow Cone • Spaghetti Plate • Spicy Soup • Super Shroom Shake • Thunder Rage • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Shroom Shake • Volt Shroom • Whacka Bump • Yellow Apple
Paper Mario items
Battle items Coconut • Dizzy Dial • Dusty Hammer • Egg Missile • Fire Flower • Fright Jar • Mystery? • Pebble • POW Block • Repel Gel • Shooting Star • Sleepy Sheep • Snowman Doll • Stone Cap • Stop Watch • Strange Cake • Thunder Bolt • Thunder Rage • Volt Shroom
Badges All or Nothing • Attack FX A • Attack FX B • Attack FX C • Attack FX D • Attack FX E • Bump Attack • Chill Out • Close Call • D-Down Jump • D-Down Pound • Damage Dodge • Deep Focus • Defend Plus • Dizzy Attack • Dizzy Stomp • Dodge Master • Double Dip • Feeling Fine • Fire Shield • First Attack • Flower Finder • Flower Saver • FP Plus • Group Focus • Hammer Throw • Happy Flower • Happy Heart • Heart Finder • HP Drain • HP Plus • I Spy • Ice Power • Jump Charge • Last Stand • Lucky Day • Mega Jump • Mega Quake • Mega Rush • Mega Smash • Money Money • Multibounce • P-Down, D-Up • P-Up, D-Down • Pay-Off • Peekaboo • Power Bounce • Power Jump • Power Plus • Power Quake • Power Rush • Power Smash • Pretty Lucky • Quake Hammer • Quick Change • Refund • Runaway Pay • S. Jump Chg. • S. Smash Chg. • Shrink Stomp • Sleep Stomp • Slow Go • Smash Charge • Speedy Spin • Spike Shield • Spin Attack • Spin Smash • Triple Dip • Zap Tap
Equipment Badge • Boots • Super Boots • Ultra Boots • Hammer • Super Hammer • Ultra Hammer
Recovery items Apple • Apple Pie • Big Cookie • Bland Meal • Blue Berry • Boiled Egg • Bubble Berry • Cake • Cake Mix • Coco Pop • Deluxe Feast • Dried Fruit • Dried Pasta • Dried Shroom • Egg • Electro Pop • Fire Pop • Fried Egg • Fried Shroom • Frozen Fries • Goomnut • Healthy Juice • Heart • Honey Candy • Honey Shroom • Honey Super • Honey Syrup • Honey Ultra • Hot Shroom • Iced Potato • Jammin' Jelly • Jelly Pop • Jelly Super • Jelly Shroom • Jelly Ultra • Kooky Cookie • Koopa Leaf • Koopa Tea • Koopasta • Lemon • Lemon Candy • Life Shroom • Lime • Lime Candy • Maple Shroom • Maple Super • Maple Syrup • Maple Ultra • Melon • Mistake • Mushroom • Nutty Cake • Potato Salad • Red Berry • Shroom Cake • Shroom Steak • Spaghetti • Special Shake • Spicy Soup • Stinky Herb • Strange Leaf • Super Shroom • Super Soda • Sweet Shroom • Tasty Tonic • Ultra Shroom • Whacka Bump • Yellow Berry • Yoshi Cookie • Yummy Meal
Important Things Artifact • Autograph • Blue Key • Boo's Portrait • Bowser's Diary • Bucket • Butter • Calculator • Castle Key • Cleanser • Cookbook • Cream • Crystal Ball • Crystal Berry • Diamond Stone • Dictionary • Diploma • Dolly • Egg • Empty Wallet • Fertile Soil • First-Degree Card • Flour • Fortress Key • Fourth-Degree Card • Frying Pan • Glasses • Gold Credit • Jade Raven • Koopa Legends • Kooper's Shell • Letter • Lucky Star • Luigi's Diary • Lunar Stone • Lyrics • Magical Bean • Magical Seed • Mailbag • Melody • Milk • Miracle Water • Mystery Note • Odd Key • Old Photo • Package • Palace Key • Prison Key • Pulse Stone • Pyramid Stone • Record • Red Jar • Red Key • Ruins Key • Salt • Scarf • Second-Degree Card • Silver Credit • Sneaky Parasol • Star Piece • Star Rod • Star Stone • Storeroom Key • Strawberry • Sugar • Tape • Third-Degree Card • Toy Train • Ultra Stone • Volcano Vase • Warehouse Key • Water • Water Stone • Weight • Yakkey
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door items
Battle items Boo's Sheet • Coconut Bomb • Courage Shell • Courage Meal • Dizzy Dial • Earth Quake • Egg Bomb • Fire Flower • Fright Mask • Hot Sauce • HP Drain • Ice Storm • Love Pudding • Mini Mr. Mini • Mr. Softener • Mystery • Peach Tart • Point Swap • POW Block • Power Punch • Repel Cape • Ruin Powder • Shooting Star • Sleepy Sheep • Spite Pouch • Stopwatch • Thunder Rage • Thunder Bolt • Volt Shroom • Zess Dynamite
Badges All or Nothing • Attack FX B • Attack FX G • Attack FX P • Attack FX R • Attack FX Y • Bump Attack • Charge • Charge P • Chill Out • Close Call • Close Call P • Damage Dodge • Damage Dodge P • Defend Plus • Defend Plus P • Double Dip • Double Dip P • Double Pain • Feeling Fine • Feeling Fine P • Fire Drive • First Attack • Flower Finder • Flower Saver • Flower Saver P • FP Drain • FP Plus • Hammer Throw • Hammerman • Happy Flower • Happy Heart • Happy Heart P • Head Rattle • Heart Finder • HP Drain • HP Drain P • HP Plus • HP Plus P • Ice Power • Ice Smash • Item Hog • Jumpman • L Emblem • Last Stand • Last Stand P • Lucky Day • Lucky Start • Mega Rush • Mega Rush P • Money Money • Multibounce • P-Down, D-Up • P-Down, D-Up P • P-Up, D-Down • P-Up, D-Down P • Peekaboo • Piercing Blow • Pity Flower • Power Bounce • Power Jump • Power Plus • Power Plus P • Power Rush • Power Rush P • Power Smash • Pretty Lucky • Pretty Lucky P • Quake Hammer • Quick Change • Refund • Return Postage • Shrink Stomp • Simplifier • Sleepy Stomp • Slow Go • Soft Stomp • Spike Shield • Super Appeal • Super Appeal P • Timing Tutor • Tornado Jump • Unsimplifier • W Emblem • Zap Tap
Equipment Badge • Boots • Hammer • Super Boots • Super Hammer • Ultra Boots • Ultra Hammer
Recovery items Cake Mix • Choco Cake • Coco Candy • Coconut • Couple's Cake • Dried Bouquet • Dried Shroom • Electro Pop • Fire Pop • Fresh Juice • Fresh Pasta • Fried Egg • Fruit Parfait • Golden Leaf • Gradual Syrup • Shroom Broth • Healthy Salad • Heartful Cake • Honey Candy • Honey Shroom • Honey Super • Honey Syrup • Honey Ultra • Horsetail • Hot Dog • Icicle Pop • Ink Pasta • Inky Sauce • Jammin' Jelly • Jelly Candy • Jelly Shroom • Jelly Super • Jelly Ultra • Keel Mango • Koopa Bun • Koopa Tea • Koopasta • Life Shroom • Mango Delight • Maple Shroom • Maple Super • Maple Syrup • Maple Ultra • Meteor Meal • Mistake • Mousse Cake • Mushroom • Mystic Egg • Omelette Meal • Peachy Peach • Poison Shroom • Shroom Broth • Shroom Cake • Shroom Crepe • Shroom Fry • Shroom Roast • Shroom Steak • Slow Shroom • Snow Bunny • Space Food • Spaghetti • Spicy Pasta • Spicy Soup • Super Shroom • Tasty Tonic • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Shroom • Whacka Bump • Zess Cookie • Zess Deluxe • Zess Dinner • Zess Frappe • Zess Special • Zess Tea
Other Dramalama Plaque • Fat Dog • Gold Bar • Gold Bar x3 • Inn Coupon • Marvelous Compass • Mushroom Full Course • Nitro Honey Syrup • Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness • Star Piece • The Big Green 01
Important Things Attack FX B • Autograph • Battle Trunks • Black Key • Blanket • Blimp Ticket • Blue Key • Blue Potion • Box • Briefcase • Card Key • Castle Key • Champ's Belt • Chuckola Cola • Cog • Contact Lens • Cookbook • Data Disk • Dubious Paper • Elevator Key • Elevator Key • Galley Pot • Gate Handle • Gold Card • Gold Ring • Goldbob Guide • Green Potion • Grotto Key • House Key • Lottery Pick • Magical Map • Mailbox SP • Moon Stone • Necklace • Old Letter • Orange Potion • Package • Palace Key • Platinum Card • Present • Puni Orb • Ragged Diary • Red Key • Red Potion • Routing Slip • Shell Earrings • Shine Sprite • Shop Key • Silver Card • Skull Gem • Special Card • Star Key • Station Key • Steeple Key • Storage Key • Strange Sack • Sun Stone • Superbombomb • Super Luigi series • The letter "p" • Train Ticket • Ultra Stone • Up Arrow • Vital Paper • Wedding Ring • Wrestling Mag
Super Paper Mario items
Attack items Berry Snow Bunny • Bone-In Cut • Dyllis Dynamite • Egg Bomb • Electro Pop • Fire Burst • Fruit Parfait • Ghost Shroom • Hot Sauce • Ice Storm • Megaton Dinner • Meteor Meal • Mighty Tonic • POW Block • Shell Shock • Shooting Star • Snow Bunny • Snow Cone • Spicy Dinner • Spicy Pasta Dish • Spit Roast • Thunder Rage • Volcano Shroom • Volt Shroom
Defense items Block Block • Block Meal • Courage Shell • Koopasta Dish • Koopa Dumpling • Koopa Pilaf • Koopa Tea • Turtley Leaf
Attack and defense items Love Noodle Dish • Lovely Chocolate
Recovery items Awesome Snack • Big Egg • Black Apple • Blue Apple • Cake Mix • Choco Pasta Dish • Chocolate Cake • Dayzee Syrup • Dayzee Tear • Dried Shroom • Dyllis Breakfast • Dyllis Deluxe • Dyllis Dinner • Dyllis Lunch • Dyllis Special • Emergency Ration • Fresh Pasta Bunch • Fresh Veggie • Fried Egg • Fried Shroom Plate • Fruity Cake • Fruity Hamburger • Fruity Punch • Fruity Shroom • Gingerbread House • Golden Choco-bar • Golden Leaf • Golden Meal • Gorgeous Steak • Gradual Syrup • Hamburger • Healthy Salad • Heartful Cake • Herb Tea • Honey Candy • Honey Jar • Honey Shroom • Honey Super • Horsetail • Horsetail Tart • Hot Dog • Ink Pasta Dish • Inky Sauce • Inky Soup • Keel Mango • Life Shroom • Long-Last Shake • Luxurious Set • Mango Juice • Mango Pudding • Meat Pasta Dish • Mild Cocoa Bean • Miracle Dinner • Mistake (1) • Mixed Shake • Mousse • Mushroom • Mushroom Crepe • Odd Dinner • Omelette Plate • Peach Juice • Peach Tart • Peachy Peach • Pink Apple • Power Steak • Primordial Dinner • Primordial Fruit • Red Apple • Roast Horsetail • Roast Shroom Dish • Roast Whacka Bump • Sap Soup • Sap Syrup • Shroom Broth • Shroom Cake • Shroom Choco-bar • Shroom Delicacy • Shroom Pudding • Shroom Shake • Shroom Steak • Slimy Shroom • Smelly Herb • Space Food • Spaghetti Plate • Spicy Soup • Stamina Juice • Super Shroom • Super Shroom Shake • Sweet Choco-bar • Sweet Cookie Snack • Town Special • Ultra Shroom • Ultra Shroom Shake • Veggie Set • Warm Cocoa • Whacka Bump • Yellow Apple
Other Catch Card • Catch Card SP • Couple's Cake • Dangerous Delight • Gold Bar • Gold Bar x3 • Gold Medal • Happy Flower • Heavy Meal • HP Plus • Love Pudding • Mega Star • Mistake (2) • Mystery Box • Pal Pill • Poison Shroom • Power Plus • Sleepy Sheep • Slimy Extract • Slow Flower • Speed Flower • Standard Chocolate • Star Medal • Stop Watch • Trial Stew • Weird Extract
Important Things Ancient Clue • Autograph • Blue Orb • Card Key • Castle Bleck Key • Cave Key • Cooking Disk • Crystal Ball • Diet Book • Dimension Key • Door Key • Fire Tablet • Floro Sprout • Fort Key • Golden Card • Goldfish Bowl • Helmet • House Key • Old Key • Paper • Random House Key • Red Orb • Return Pipe • Ruins Key • Stone Tablet • Training Machine • Water Tablet • Yellow Orb • You-Know-What
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