Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – How to Mix Peach’s Invisibility Potion

The much-anticipated remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is here, and much like the Gamecube original, the game is bursting with puzzles, secrets, and some quirky mechanics that new players may find slightly perplexing. Don’t worry though, we’re here to cut The Thousand-Year Door’s more confusing aspects down to size.

In between most Paper Mario TTYD chapters, you’ll play through short vignettes with Princess Peach. These are usually fairly straightforward, but the one between Chapters 5 and 6 actually contains a fairly tricky puzzle that may frustrate folks who don’t see it coming. Don’t worry though, we’ve got you covered…

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After completing Chapter 5, you’ll once again find yourself in the pink shoes of Princess Peach. The computer TEC will ask her to retrieve a Data Disk from Sir Grodus’ office, and in order to do so, you’ll need to mix up a potion that will make you invisible.

Exit the elevator that takes you to the second floor, then head left until you get to the one open room, in which you’ll find the potion mixing puzzle. First, you need to put the four color of potions in the right order. You’ll find a number of clues around the room, most notably, “Do not put the Red potion on the far right,” “Place two potions between the Red and Green potions,” and “Place the Yellow potion between the Blue potion and the Green potion.”

Using those three clues, you can determine the right order – (from left to right) Red, Blue, Yellow, Green.

Now push the button on the left. A beaker will now move down the conveyor belt. Push the buttons below the four potions to pour them in as the beaker stops above them.

Okay, now the part that will likely throw a lot of people off. The game will ask you to heat the combination of potions for 30 seconds. Press the button to star the heating, then again to stop it. There’s no special “trick” to this, you actually have to time it. If