World Mushroom-5: Back to Hands-On Hall

Two Fire Bros. greet you at the start of this level. Be ready to react and fight back! When they are out of the way, you have to use the touch screen to open up the sliding doors, tap the gong to summon a pipe, and travel deeper into Hands-On Hall.

After fighting past a Boomerang Bro, you see on the other side of the wall a sleeping Goomba Tower. Ignore them for now and investigate the area under the stairs, opening doors as needed. The first of five Key Coins is under the stairs!

Upstairs, two Hammer Bros. leap after you in defense of the second Key Coin.

Next, hit this ? Block to get a baseball to throw, open the nearby door, and throw the ball through the wall of Blurkersat the gong behind it to open a passage through the wall to the left.

Defeat this Goomba Tower and Fire Bro, then open the doors on the wall. Bang the gong behind the doors to open a hidden room with Goombas and the third Key Coin inside.

Green Star #1

You can’t miss seeing this Green Star inside the Clear Pipe. However, a spike ball makes getting to it troublesome. Throw a baseball into the Clear Pipe to take out the spike ball, then go for the star!

Behind the next set of sliding doors is a Hammer Bro and the fourth Key Coin.

Take out the two Boomerang Bros. near the last set of sliding doors, then open those doors to see more of those Blurkers obscuring the back wall. Throw a baseball through the center group of Blurkers to strike a gong and trigger the last Key Coin’s appearance!

Green Star #2

Next to the Checkpoint Flag is a Green Star Ring. Two of the Green Coins that appear do so in the large pit, so must use a Propeller Box to reach them and escape. Watch out for the Flopters falling into the area. They can knock you into the abyss.

You need to reach the upper levels of the building and ring a gong on the left side, but two Fire Bros. and more Flopters try to get in your way. Ringing that gong causes a Warp Box to appear.

Green Star #3

Getting to that Warp Box means crossing some cloud platforms if you’ve lost your Propeller Box, and fighting off two Hammer Bros. along the way. The box sends you to a room that contains piles of Coins and the third Green Star.

The Goal Pole bounces around the roof of the building, and there are no platforms nearby that let you get the drop on it. Go grab a Propeller Box from the lower levels of the castle if you don’t already have one!