Matching Game

The Matching Game is a minigame in Super Mario Bros. 3. Mario or Luigi can play it from automatically entering a N-Mark Spade Panel on the world map. The Matching Game is hosted by a Toad.
==Gameplay==
There are eighteen cards flipped over, and the player has to try and flip over nine card pairs, each depicting an item. Each time a card pair is matched, the player wins its depicted prize for their inventory. If the player mismatches twice, the Matching Game ends. Even if the player does not manage to match every card pair, the ones they did match remain flipped over during subsequent plays. Once all nine card pairs have been matched, the cards reset the next time around.
The card pairs include a 10 coin, a 20 coin, two Super Mushrooms, two Fire Flowers, two Starmen, and one 1-Up. In the Super Mario All-Stars version, while the Starman cards use their new design, the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower cards retain their original designs, although the former had its colors inverted.
===Possible layouts===
Before the Matching Game is first played, it randomly selects one of eight predefined configurations. The fourth, fifth, and sixth cards from the left on the bottom row are always a Super Mushroom, a Fire Flower, and a Starman, respectively.
==Trivia==
*In early copies of Super Mario Bros. 3, when the Toad gives instructions for playing the Matching Game, he says, "Flip over any two cards and see if they match. Miss twice and your out!" with "your" being a misspelling of "you're." This would eventually be fixed in later copies, in which the second sentence instead reads, "You can only miss twice!" However, the Super Mario All-Stars remake retains the original message, including its typo. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 retains the same message, but with the spelling mistake fixed.
Category:Super Mario Bros. 3
Category:Minigames in Super Mario series