Mystery

Mystery

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 Box is an item found in Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario.

History

Paper Mario series

Paper Mario

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:

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:

In a hidden block in the north of the Shy Guy Playground in the blue area of Shy Guy's Toy Box.
In a hidden block on the beach of Lavalava Island.
On a platform in the third lava/moving platform area in Bowser's Castle.
On sale for 1 coin each at Boo's Shop.
On sale for 5 coins each at the Storehouse.
Dropped by enemies such as Groove Guys and Duplighosts.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, 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:

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

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.

A Mystery Box can contain one of the following items:

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

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.

Unused appearances

Paper Mario: Sticker Star

The Mystery Box 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

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	なにがおこるかな^[1] Nani ga Okoru Ka Na	I Wonder What Will Happen
Chinese	神秘？^[?] Shénmì?	Mystery?
Dutch	Verrassing^[?]	Surprise
French	Mystère?^[?]	Mystery?
German	Mysterium?^[?]	Mystery?
German	Überraschungsbox (Super Paper Mario)^[?]	Surprise Box
Italian	Chissà cos'è^[?]	Who knows what it is
Korean	미스터리박스^[?] Miseuteoli Bagseu	Mystery Box
Spanish	Sorpresa^[?]	Surprise

References

^ "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 Mushroom • 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 Mushroom • Maple Syrup • Meteor Meal • Mr. Softener • Mushroom • Mushroom Fry • Mushroom Roast • Mushroom Steak • Mystic Egg • Peachy Peach • Point Swap • Poison Mushroom • Ruin Powder • Shooting Star • Slow Mushroom • Snow Bunny • Spaghetti • Spicy Soup • Super Mushroom • Tasty Tonic • Thunder Rage • Thunder Bolt • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Mushroom • Volt Mushroom • 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 Charge • S. Smash Charge • 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 Shroom • Jelly Super • 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
Key items	Artifact • Autograph • Blue Key • Boo's Portrait • Bowser's diary • Bucket • Butter • Calculator • Castle Key (Tubba Blubba's Castle) • Castle Key (Peach's Castle) • Castle Key (Bowser's Castle) • 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 • 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 • Special Strawberry Cake • 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 (GCN) / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch) items
Battle items	Boo's Sheet • Coconut Bomb • Courage Meal • Courage Shell • 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 Bolt • Thunder Rage • Volt Mushroom • 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 • Gold Medal^a • 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 • Nostalgic Tunes^a • 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 Mushroom • Electro Pop • Fire Pop • Fresh Juice • Fresh Pasta • Fried Egg • Fruit Parfait • Golden Leaf • Gradual Syrup • Healthy Salad • Heartful Cake • Honey Candy • Honey Mushroom • Honey Super • Honey Syrup • Honey Ultra • Horsetail • Hot Dog • Hottest Dog^a • Icicle Pop • Ink Pasta • Inky Sauce • Jammin' Jelly • Jelly Candy • Jelly Mushroom • Jelly Super • Jelly Ultra • Keel Mango • Koopa Bun • Koopa Tea • Koopasta • Life Mushroom • Mango Delight • Maple Mushroom • Maple Super • Maple Syrup • Maple Ultra • Meteor Meal • Mistake • Mousse Cake • Mushroom • Mushroom Broth • Mushroom Cake • Mushroom Crepe • Mushroom Fry • Mushroom Roast • Mushroom Steak • Mystic Egg • Omelette Meal • Peachy Peach • Poison Mushroom • Slow Mushroom • Snow Bunny • Space Food • Spaghetti • Spicy Pasta • Spicy Soup • Super Mushroom • Tasty Tonic • Trial Stew • Turtley Leaf • Ultra Mushroom • 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 • Badge Trophy^a • Battle Trunks • Black Key • Blanket • Blimp Ticket • Blue Key • Blue Potion • Box • Briefcase • Cake • Castle Key • Champ's Belt • Chuckola Cola • Cog • Contact Lens • Cookbook • Cooking Trophy^a • Data Disk • Dubious Documents • Elevator Key (Riverside Station) • Elevator Key (X-Naut Fortress) • Galley Pot • Gate Handle • Gold Card • Gold Ring • Goldbob's Pass • Gold Whacka Bump^a • Green Potion • Grotto Key • House Key • Lottery Ticket • Magical Map • Mailbox SP • Moon Stone • Necklace • Old Letter • Package • Palace Key • Platinum Card • Poisoned Cake • Present • Prince Mush's Belt^a • Puni Orb • Ragged Diary • Red Key • Red Potion • Routing Slip • Security Key • Shell Earrings • Shine Sprite • Shop Key • Silver Card • Skull Gem • Special Card • Star Stone • Station Key • Steeple Key • Storage Key • Strange Sack • Sun Stone • Superbombomb • Super Luigi • Tattle Trophy^a • The Letter "p" • Threatening Note^a • Train Ticket • Ultra Stone • Up Arrow • Vital Paper • Wedding Ring • Wrestling Magazine • Yellow Potion
^a Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch remake

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 Muffin • 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 (Gloam Valley) • Door Key (Planet Blobule) • Door Key (The Underwhere) • Fire Tablet • Floro Sprout • Fort Key • Golden Card • Goldfish Bowl • Helmet • House Key • Old Key • Paper • Pit Key • Random House Key • Red Orb • Return Pipe • Ruins Key • Stone Tablet • Training Machine • Water Tablet • Yellow Orb • You-Know-What