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Eat mushrooms. You can’t be successful while hungry. Only eat red and white mushrooms that pop out of floating boxes with question marks on them. That way, if you get hit by an enemy or are too slow dodging a fireball you won’t die. Opening these these surprise boxes can be a little tricky at first though. You have to hit the box from the bottom with your head. Trying to open them with your hands will not work. Eating the Mario way effectively doubles your life, height, and chance of saving the princess!

Check out these sites for yummy mushroom recipes.

http://mushroomrecipes.com/

http://www.mushroomrecipes.us/

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=mushroom

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Use your head. It’s important to exercise your brain with books, logic puzzles, and the like, but in order to really be successful you must expand on how you use your head. Sometimes you will be faced with an obstacle, usually random floating bricks, that can’t be overcome no matter how clever your thinking is. In situations like these you must use your head to physically break these bricks. Remember, your head must be used to open question mark boxes.

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Collect coins. Sometimes you find pennies, nickels, or even dollar bills on the street. Pick them up and save them till the end of the board or life for a high score. If you find 100 coins you will even get an extra life. Be sure to pick up the special coins that float in the air or inside question mark boxes too. You will hear a special sound that will make you want even more coins.

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Wear overalls. The last thing you need when you are giving a boardroom presentation, fighting crime, or rescuing a princess is for your pants to fall down. Wearing overalls insures that your pants will not succumb to gravity’s evil grasp when running after a dragon. The big pockets will allow you to carry large items with ease. Basically, wearing overalls means you dress for function, not fashion.

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Use warps. Sometimes getting from point A to point B can be tedious and time consuming. It’s very hard to climb every step, defeat every enemy, destroy every dungeon and still have time for Starbucks. Life is too short for that. When a warp presents itself, use it to skip some levels. Go to school and get a degree, particularly in plumbing since warps are green sewer piping protruding from the ground.

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Be curious. When you pass by a box with a question mark on it, open it. That is the only way you will find enough mushrooms, fire flowers, and other power items to succeed. You only have limited number of lives so its pays to be curious.

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