Editing N-Mark Spade Panel

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|image=[[File:SMB3 N-Mark Spade Panel.png]][[File:SMB3 SMAS N-Mark Spade Panel.png]][[File:SMA4 N-Mark Spade Panel.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
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{{quote2|Flip over any two cards and see if they match. You can only miss twice!|[[Toad (species)|Toad]]|''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''}}
'''N-Mark Spade Panels''',<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' English instruction booklet, page 22.</ref> also known as '''Matching Game Panels''',<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13, page 10.</ref> '''Card Matching Games''',<ref>''Super Mario All-Stars'' Player's Guide, page 110.</ref> '''Matching Game spaces''',<ref>The ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Player's Guide, page 11.</ref> or '''N-Spades''',<ref>Hodgson, David S J. ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 23.</ref> are [[Spade Panel]]s in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' that appear on the [[world]] map for every 80,000 [[point]]s gained. Whenever [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] moves onto an N-Mark Spade Panel, he is automatically taken in, unlike with other [[panel (Super Mario Bros. 3)|panel]]s.

N-Mark Spade Panels do not appear in [[Dark Land|World 8]]; however, in the post-game of ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the player's score is still tracked in World 8 for the purposes of an N-Mark Spade Panel, and if Mario or Luigi returns to one of the other seven worlds, it is possible to make multiple N-Mark Spade Panels appear in the same world each time he leaves a [[level]].

When drawn into an N-Mark Spade Panel, Mario or Luigi must play a card game hosted by a [[Toad (species)|Toad]] titled the '''Matching Game'''.<ref>NES Game Atlas Nintendo Player's Guide, page 41.</ref> The goal is to flip over two cards, each depicting an item, every turn to try to match a pair. For each card pair successfully matched, Mario or Luigi wins that prize for his inventory, for a total of nine prizes per game. If Mario or Luigi mismatches twice, the [[minigame]] ends. Once all of the card pairs have been matched, the cards reset the next time around. Even if Mario or Luigi is unsuccessful at matching every card pair, the ones that he did match remain flipped over the next time he plays the minigame.

In early copies of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the Toad would say, ''"Flip over any two cards and see if they match. Miss twice and your{{sic}} out!"'' with "you're" misspelled as "your." The text was revised in later copies of the game, with the second sentence instead reading, ''"You can only miss twice!"''<ref>[https://themushroomkingdom.net/games/smb3#overview Super Mario Bros. 3]. ''The Mushroom Kingdom''. Retrieved February 25, 2022.</ref>

In the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'' version, while the [[Super Star|Starman]] cards use their new design, the [[Super Mushroom]] and [[Fire Flower]] cards retain their original designs, albeit with the former's colors inverted. The text has been reverted to the incorrect version.

In ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'', the text box has been enlarged enough for the Toad to use the correct grammar in the original message and a comma to be added after "twice."

==Prizes==
*10 [[coin]]s (1)
*20 coins (1)
*[[Super Mushroom]] (2)
*[[Fire Flower]] (2)
*[[Super Star|Starman]] (2)
*[[Extra life|1-up]] (1)

==Layouts==
The game was intended to perform a shuffling function that would output a completely random set of cards each time the game was initialized. However, minor coding errors in both shuffling routines resulted in most of the intended shuffling mechanics not to take place, unintentionally resulting in only eight possible arrangements of cards.<ref>Retro Game Mechanics Explained (October 7, 2023). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGeLzCmUDDk SMB3 Roulette & Card Matching Games Explained]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved October 7, 2023.</ref> Despite this setup being unintentional, all future versions of the game continue to use the same mechanics. The fourth, fifth, and sixth cards from the left on the bottom row will always be a Super Mushroom, a Fire Flower, and a Starman, respectively. 

[[File:Match Game.png]]

==See also==
*[[Power-up Panels]] – a similar game found in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=Nマークスペードパネル<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Japanese instruction booklet, page 19.</ref>
|JapR=N Māku Supēdo Paneru
|JapM=N-Mark Spade Panel
|Ita=Segno di picche con "N"<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' Italian manual, pag. 22</ref><br>Pannello picche N<ref>''[[Super Mario All-Stars]] 25th Anniversary Edition'' Italian manual, pag. 17</ref><br>Mini-memory<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; pag. 43</ref>
|ItaM=Spade symbol with "N"<br>N spade panel<br>-
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==Trivia==
*In ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'', hitting a [[Hidden Character Block]] causes a sound that sounds similar to when an N-Mark Spade Panel appears in the NES version of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' to play.

==References==
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