Lucky House
- This article is about the minigame in Super Mario 3D World. For its musical theme, see Please Select Player § Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury.
Lucky Houses[1] are slot machine minigames in the Super Mario franchise.
History[edit]
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
Lucky Houses are locations run by Sprixies in Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. They can appear in every world except World Mushroom, World Flower, and World Crown. After the player completes levels a certain number of times in a world, a Lucky House appears and can be entered like a standard level. A Lucky House also appears in the locomotive's cabin in the Coin Express level. The minigame inside revolves around hitting all four Slot Blocks to match Fire Flowers, Super Leaves, Super Bells, Double Cherries, or Boomerang Flowers to be rewarded with coins. The music that plays is a cover version of Super Mario Bros. 2's character-select theme, and the Slot Blocks cycle their images to the beat of this music.
Depending on the number of icons that match, the numbers of coins rewarded are as follows:
- No matches – 10 coins (1-UP if the player has between 90 and 99 coins)
- One pair – 100 coins (1-UP)
- Two pairs – 200 coins (2-UP)
- Three of a kind – 300 coins (3-UP)
- Four of a kind – 777 coins (7-UP, or 8-UP if the player has between 23 and 99 coins)
The Prima guide for Super Mario 3D World mistakenly claims that World 1 does not have a Lucky House.[2]
The Slots game in Super Mario Odyssey provides a similar function to Lucky Houses, where the player can earn coins and Power Moons, as well as Hearts in place of extra lives.
Super Nintendo World[edit]
Known as the Slot Machine,[3] the minigame is also found in the Super Nintendo World area of Universal Studios Japan and Universal Epic Universe, where it is located in a small room found towards the left of Peach's Castle. Park guests can use Power-Up Bands to punch the Slot Blocks to match item icons in all four blocks in order to win coins and item stamps.
List of stamps[edit]
- Main article: List of Super Nintendo World stamps
The following stamps can be won by playing the Slot Machine minigame:
| Icon | Name | Requirement | Category | Repeatable | Coins Earned |
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Beginner's Luck | Play the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | No |  25
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High Roller | Play the Slot Machine 7 times. | Super Nintendo World | No | 125
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Leaf Match | Match 4 Super Leaf images on the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | Yes | 20
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Egg Match | Match 4 Yoshi's Egg images on the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | Yes | 20
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Mushroom Match | Match 4 Super Mushroom images on the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | Yes | 20
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Flower Match | Match 4 Fire Flower images on the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | Yes | 20
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All-Star Match | Match 4 Super Star images on the Slot Machine. | Super Nintendo World | Yes | 20
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Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | Casa della Roulette | Roulette house | [4] |
References[edit]
- ^ Super Mario 3D World Prima eGuide
- ^ "From World 2 on, completing a number of levels in a row will cause a Lucky House to appear on the World Map." – Super Mario 3D World Prima eGuide. Page 22.
- ^ "Play the Slot Machine." – Super Nintendo World "Beginner's Luck" stamp. English.
- ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 235.
