New Super Mario Bros Wii Star Coins locations guide

WORLD 3 STAR COINS

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-1

1. Easily visible. Use the Penguin Suit to slide through the blocks to get it.
2. Lower route after the checkpoint. Freeze the Piranha Plant and use him as a step to reach the Star Coin.
3. Using the Penguin Suit to slide and break the blocks leading to this pipe, freeze one of the penguins and ride him to reach the Coin.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-2

1. Easily visible, use a Bullet Bill to reach the Star Coin.
2. A green pipe below a calvacade of Bullet Bills takes you to the room with the Star Coin. To reach the Star Coin at the top, time your jumps to bounce off the Bullet Bills.
3. Easily visible on a sloped platform near the top of the screen. Run and jump or use a Bullet Bill to get it.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-3

1. Next to an ice pillar with a blue coin box ontop is a floating platform. Wait for the platform to float away from the pillar, then walk into it for a hidden area.
2. Easily visible.
3. After the checkpoint, there is a Star Coin at the end of a section that you can’t fit into. In order to get it, go back to the other side of the area, pick up the barrel and toss it through the gap to get the Star Coin.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-GHOST HOUSE

1. Hidden area directly to the left of the start of the level.
2. A hidden alcove to the left of a series of ropes in the second room contains the Star Coin.
3. This Star Coins well hidden on the way to the level’s Alternate Exit. In the room with the rope on the ceiling is a hidden door. Follow the rope until you are positioned above the first moving platform on the left-most side until the platform is all the way to the left. Now wait for it to move away then drop off the rope. You’ll land in a hidden area with a door that leads to a hidden area. Here there is a shaft with a floor that begins to move slowly, then drops suddenly. After the first drop, you’ll find the Star Coin inside a hidden alcove along the right wall.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-4

1. Easily visible, above the Fire Bro.
2. A hidden area inside an oddly shapped large platform (with two red blocks on either side) contains the Star Coin. Duck under then leap up to get it.
3. Near the end of the level after a series of moving platforms. Easily visible.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-FORTRESS

1. There is a door inside a hidden alcove on the right wall of a large spinning squre that has an item box in the center. Inside the door is another rotating square with a Star Coin.
2. Located at the top of a tall elevator shaft. The Star Coin is blocked by bricks. These bricks can only be broken by the rolling spiked balls which in turn are destroyed by the two POW Blocks. Activate the first POW Block before the balls appear. For the second, carry it through and don’t throw it until the balls have rolled through the top bricks, creating a path for you to reach the Star Coin at the end.
3. Just before the boss, jump from the spinning blue L-shaped platform and wall jump off the right wall to the short wall to the left, then from there to the space above it where the Star Coin is.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-5

1. Easily visible.
2. Only obtainable after activating the Red-Switch Block on the world map, which turns the Red Outlined Blocks into solid Red Blocks. This lets you access a red pipe at the top of the first section. The Star Coin is then easily visible inside the pipe.
3. The third Star Coin is a bit further up from the second Star Coin, see above.

COINS HIDDEN ON LEVEL 3-CASTLE

1. Easily visible. Use the rubber balls to reach it.
2. Easily visible, destroy the Ice Blocks with the Bob-Ombs to get it.
3. Easily visible when you’re forced to follow the moving ice path.

Continue to Page 4 for the World 4 Star Coins!