Mystery

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Mystery
PaperMario Items Mystery.png Sprite of a Mystery from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Mystery Box SPM.png Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
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:

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:

In the remake the selection is different:

  • Mushroom
  • Honey Syrup
  • Stopwatch
  • Repel Cape
  • Fire Flower
  • Shooting Star
  • Thunder Rage

Later chapters replace Mushroom and Honey Syrup with their upgraded forms.

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 Notes
Japanese なにがおこるかな[1]
Nani ga Okoru Ka Na
I Wonder What Will Happen
Chinese (simplified) 神秘?[?]
Shénmì?
Mystery? Paper Mario
会发生什么事呢[?]
Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne
I Wonder What Will Happen The Thousand-Year Door remake
Chinese (traditional) 會發生什麼事呢[?]
Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne
I Wonder What Will Happen
Dutch Verrassing[?] Surprise
French Mystère?[?] Mystery?
German Mysterium?[?] Mystery?
Überraschungsbox[?] Surprise Box Super Paper Mario
Italian Chissà cos'è[?] Who knows what it is
Korean 미스터리박스[?]
Miseuteori Bakseu
Mystery Box
Spanish Sorpresa[?] Surprise

References

  1. ^ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.