Spooky Trails contains 52 chests: 46 collectible or Power Orb chests and six weapon chests. This route also includes the two additional chests beside its travel cannon at Peach’s Castle, for 54 entries. The castle-side rewards are separate from the world’s own total.
For a complete return visit, defeat Phantom to unlock Beep-0’s Smash ability. You also need the exploration abilities earned in the earlier worlds. Follow the areas below in order; chest numbers are this guide’s route labels, while numbered artwork, models and music refer to their Museum entries.
A red-ring reward requires all eight red coins before time expires. A blue bonus cannon starts a separate timed course. If either attempt fails, start it again; opening a weapon chest unlocks the weapon for purchase in Battle HQ, so equip it after buying it.
Spooky Square — chests 1–14
1 — Porcelain Vacation – Tarot Card 9
Enter the first purple gate and take the right branch. The chest is beside the wall.
2 — Spooky Supporter – 3D model 25
Return across Spooky Square to the pipe near the Rabbid stuck in a chimney. Take it to the reward on the other side.
3 — Spooky Ziggy – Artwork 15
Follow the pipes deeper into the area. Look beside the rising main path before climbing farther.
4 — Spooky Ziggy – 3D model 24
Climb the nearby stairs. The model chest is directly ahead at the top.
5 — Hot Start, Cold Finish – Soundtrack 21
From chest 4, take the other branch and follow it to its dead end.
6 — Thorn Scorn – weapon for Mario
Pass through the large gate and climb the stairs to the pipe on the left. Enter its red ring and collect all eight coins for Mario’s weapon.
7 — 20 Power Orbs
Return with Move. At the movable crates, use the fixed stone arrangement opposite as a reference and position your crates as its mirror image.
8 — I See London – Tarot Card 2
Cross the first story battlefield to the blue pedestal. Use the nearby pipe to retrieve the Rabbid statue, place it on the pedestal and take the unlocked cannon.
9 — 10 Power Orbs
After that first cannon trip, use the next cannon on the new platform. It reaches a second isolated reward area.
10 — Cold Start, Hot Finish – Soundtrack 22
Take the cannon back toward the main route but revisit the statues and pedestals before continuing. Look beside that puzzle for the easily missed chest.
11 — Chemical Imbalance – Tarot Card 14
Search the short branch between the statue puzzle and the cannon landing used for the preceding chests.
12 — Swamp House – Artwork 16
After bringing back the story’s gramophone, use the second gate in Spooky Square. Follow the left cemetery branch and look among the graves.
13 — 10 Power Orbs
On the other side branch, push the block away from the pipe. Take the pipe, note the inactive cannon, return through the second pipe and activate red. The cannon now reaches the yellow-gated reward area.
14 — In the Cold of Battle – Soundtrack 23
From that cannon route, return to the side path by pipe or the opened yellow gate. Climb the stairs and check the rear-left corner.
Underwater Village — chests 15–30
15 — Needs Aloe – Tarot card 19
Enter Underwater Village through the large gate. At the fountain, circle behind the nearby house to the haystack.
16 — Monday – Tarot card 22
With Smash available, break the two cracked blocks near the fountain’s signpost. Take the exposed cannon.
17 — Spooky Peek-a-Boo – 3D model 26
This is Toadette’s story reward for finding her and reuniting her with Toad. Open the chest beside her near the later Challenge 4 location.
18 — Spooky Hopper – 3D Model 27
Past Toadette’s reward, find the huge spiked bomb. Smash the cracked blocks behind it and take the pipe to the Hopper model.
19 — Crosshead Orb – weapon for Rabbid Luigi
Return to the main route by cannon and head back toward Toadette’s area. Complete the blue-coin bonus course just before it.
20 — Icicle Golem’s Theme – Soundtrack 24
Continue beyond the colored-floor puzzle and the next arena to the laser-and-block puzzle. Smash the cracked block obstructing a pipe and take that pipe.
21 — Odd Fountain – Artwork 17
Cross the later Challenge 5 battlefield and circle behind Madame Bwahstrella’s hut. The artwork chest is hidden at its rear.
22 — Spooky Smasher – 3D model 28
Continue into the next area and look just beyond the healing Mushroom, behind the nearby cover.
23 — 20 Power Orbs
In that same section, take the pipe into the field of cracked blocks. Smash them to find the blue switch, activate it and enter the opened pipe.
24 — No Pity Kitty – Weapon for Rabbid Peach
At the village square where you collect the spirit for the silver pedestal, activate the red ring. Collect all eight coins to unlock Rabbid Peach’s weapon.
25 — Wheel of Fatality – Tarot Card 10
Pass the large gate and enter the next pipe. Push the block onto the floor plate above, then return through the same pipe to the opened reward passage.
26 — 5 Power Orbs
Bring the story spirit back to its pedestal at Spooky Square and pass the opened plant gate. Take the side gate on the left, follow the path down and carry the alley’s Rabbid statue to the red pedestal.
27 — Calavera – 3D model 29
Open the model chest beside chest 26 in the area exposed by that red pedestal.
28 — Slippery World – Tarot Card 21
Take the other side entrance opposite the previous reward area. Check beside the large plant pot.
29 — Spooky Village – Soundtrack 25
Open the second chest close to chest 28 before returning to the main gate.
30 — Hydrant Hammer – weapon for Mario
Pass through the large plant gate. Finish the blue-coin bonus cannon immediately beyond it.
Slime Swamp and The Secret Swamp — chests 31–37
31 — Spooky Buckler – 3D model 32
At Slime Swamp, leave the colored maze alone and take the raised wooden path on the right. Smash the cracked blocks to reach the chest beside a cannon.
32 — Spooky Skirmish – Soundtrack 26
Return from that cannon to the maze’s color selector. Turn the blue path left and follow its branch to the chest.
33 — Opera Theatre – Artwork 21
Use the Slime Swamp cannon to enter Chapter 3-S, The Secret Swamp. Cross its first arena, stay right and smash the obstructing crates and blocks. Activate the gray return switch afterward.
34 — 5 Power Orbs
In the secret chapter, use the blue switches to extend the route. Smash the blocks at the pipe but explore left before entering it; reveal the statue, carry it to its pedestal and cross the second arena. Activate blue and take the other pipe to this chest.
35 — 20 Power Orbs
Return through the pipe to the blue switch and leave the adjacent block raised. Cross the arena back to the earlier movable-block section; the lowered wall now exposes the second pipe and its reward.
36 — Phantom – 3D model 33
Open Phantom’s model chest beside chest 35 before exiting the secret route.
37 — The Spooky Swamp – Artwork 18
At the colored maze’s selector, turn yellow to the right. Push the island’s block onto its blue plate, then follow the hidden walkway that appears as you explore the island’s edge.
Thorny Vale — chests 38–52
38 — Love on the Rocks – Tarot Card 6
Turn the maze’s green route upward to resume the story path into Thorny Vale. After the following battles, check the left corner at its entrance.
39 — Got Spirit – Tarot card 16
Solve the statue-and-pedestal mechanism in the maze where walls rise as you step across particular tiles. Use the changing walls to reach the upper-left corner.
40 — 5 Power Orbs
In that same maze, approach the raised central chest from a side where stepping on the mechanism lifts a wall into a usable path.
41 — 10 Power Orbs
With Smash and Move, clear the cracked blocks in the rear-center section and push the movable block onto its switch. Follow the opened route, use the pipe and take the statue through the shifting-wall puzzle to its pedestal.
42 — Rabbid Yoshi – 3D model 30
Open the Rabbid Yoshi model beside the Power Orb chest reached for entry 41.
43 — Spooky Valkyrie – Artwork 19
Leave the wall maze and follow the story route. Near the Challenge 8 Rabbid, smash the cracked blocks obstructing a side area and open its first chest.
44 — 5 Power Orbs
Open the second chest beside the Valkyrie artwork in that same cleared recess.
45 — Abbey Ruins – Soundtrack 27
Cross the Challenge 8 battlefield. Use the cannon in the middle of the next area to reach the soundtrack chest.
46 — Spooky Valkyrie – 3D model 31
At the next battlefield’s entrance, take the left-hand path uphill. Smash the cracked blocks at its end.
47 — Brünnehilde – weapon for Peach
Continue beyond the Challenge 9 area to the pumpkins. Enter the red ring and finish its eight-coin course for Peach’s weapon.
48 — The Nerd – Tarot Card 12
At the beginning of Chapter 3-8, check the lower-right corner of the square beside the wall.
49 — Eerie Little Square – Artwork 20
Pick up the statue in that same section, carry it through the nearby pipe and place it on the pedestal beyond. Follow the path it opens.
50 — 10 Power Orbs
Cross the next battlefield toward the huge clock-and-mirror puzzle. Push aside the left-hand block, enter its pipe and follow the lower branch.
51 — Lost in the Swamp – Soundtrack 28
Take that pipe back up. The soundtrack chest is on the main approach to the clock puzzle.
52 — Bozo Boom – Weapon for Rabbid Yoshi
Finish the clock-and-mirror mechanism and descend the long path beyond it. Complete the blue-coin cannon course at the bottom.
Peach’s Castle — chests 53–54
53 — The Swamp Battle – Soundtrack 29
At Peach’s Castle, approach the Spooky Trails travel cannon after progressing through World 3. Open the soundtrack chest in its entrance area.
54 — Royal Rabbid – weapon for Peach
At the same castle-side entrance, carry the statue to the appropriate pedestal to expose the red ring. Collect all eight red coins for Peach’s additional weapon.
Continue exploring
Return to World 3 — Spooky Trails for the story battles, or try its ten Challenges after completing the world. The Kingdom Battle walkthrough links the other worlds and Donkey Kong Adventure.