Treasure Ship

A Treasure Ship (also known as Coin Ship) is a large, flying vessel that appears in Super Mario Bros. 3. If Mario or Luigi venture onto a Treasure Ship, they will find dozens of coins that they can collect. Not including the ones battled at the end, there are no enemies found on the ships. However, they can still lose a life either by getting crushed by the scrolling screen, or letting the timer run out.

Treasure Ships are summoned through a trick that must be perfomed by following a specific method:


 * The player must be in either Grass Land, Sea Side, The Sky or Iced Land.
 * A Hammer Bro. must be on the map.
 * Mario or Luigi must finish a stage with a Coin total ending in a multiple of 11 (zero doesn't count).
 * The tens digit of the player's score must match the multiple of 11.
 * As each second left on the timer will award the player 50 points, the timer must be stopped on an even number so that the number of points received is a multiple of 100. Alternatively, an odd number will work if the score is 50 points off from the correct multiple.

For instance, if the above criteria is met, and the player ends a stage with 44 Coins and a score 0246240, they will successfully trigger a Treasure Ship. Note that this trick will only work once in any given world.

Instead of fighting one or two Hammer Bros. at the end of the ship, two Boomerang Bros. must be fought instead. The reward for defeating them would be whatever item the Hammer Bro. that got replaced by the ship would've normally given. Also, if a player dies while onboard a Treasure Ship, it will revert back into a Hammer Bro.

Trivia

 * The Japanese character on the mast of Treasure Ships is "宝", which means "treasure."
 * The Treasure Ship always contains the same amount of items, which is 168 Coins and a hidden 1-Up Mushroom near the final Warp Pipe.
 * The Treasure Ship bears a resemblance to the ship seen in the title screen of the game Shin Onigashima.
 * A golden airship similar to the Treasure Ship makes an apppearance in New Super Mario Bros. 2 as part of World 5-A.