Color coin

Not to be confused with Colored coin.

A color coin, also known as a Colored Coin or Challenge Coin, is a special type of Star Coin that is found in Super Mario Run. There are three types of color coins: the Pink Coin, the Purple Coin, and the Black Coin. Collecting a color coin is a stylish move, so doing so creates blue stars that contribute to a Coin Rush in the Toad Rally mode.

Each course in the World Tour mode has five of each coin. (The tutorial, How to Play, only has Pink Coins). However, the colors of coins do not coexist. Each course has a layout for Pink Coins, a more difficult layout for Purple Coins, and a even more difficult layout for Black Coins. The layout is selected before entering the course, but at first they only have access to the Pink Coins. When the player gets all coins of a type in a course, the icon for that coin is displayed with a crown. The first time the player collects all the Pink Coins in a course in a single run, that course's Purple Coins are unlocked. The same is true for the collection of Purple Coins, unlocking Black Coins.

Each color coin is worth ten coins, which are only added to the coin counter during the results screen. After the first time the player collects all five of the same color coin in a single run, the player is rewarded with two Rally Tickets. Collecting all the Pink Coins in courses from World 1 to World 6, 120 in all, allows the player to purchase the Pink Coin Pipe from the Shop in Kingdom Builder mode and place them in the Mushroom Kingdom. This pipe can be interacted with to access the Special Course Chase the Snaking Coins. The same is true for collecting all 120 of the Purple Coins and 120 of the Black Coins from the same courses, which unlocks the Purple Coin Pipe and Black Coin Pipe. They unlock the Special Courses Piranha Plant Field and Make the Cut!, respectively. Each Special Course only has the type of coin that was used to unlock the pipe, and these coins are excluded from the total tracked in the game's menus. Similarly, the Pink Coins in How to Play are excluded from that total.

The color coins found in courses of World ★ are tracked separately from the color coins found in the courses from World 1 to World 6. They are listed in menus under the rows ★Pink Coins, ★Purple Coins, and ★Black Coins. For collecting all 24 Black Coins in World ★, which requires collecting all 24 Pink Coins in World ★ and all 24 Purple Coins in World ★ to unlock the Black Coins, the player is allowed to purchase the Gold Star Pipe. This pipe can be interacted with to access the course Red Block Run, which in turn has a set of Black Coins that are not tracked.

Pink Coins are in Toad Rally courses, often in similar position that color coins of any type have in World Tour courses. Collecting a Pink Coin causes a Toad to cheer for the player. Additionally, the Pink Coins each player collected are visible in the summary displayed for the round after its conclusion but before judging..

Color coins do not appear in Remix 10. However, the locations of that mode's Bonus Medals sometimes correlate to the locations of color coins.

Gallery

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  The Pink Coin

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  The Purple Coin

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  The Black Coin

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  The Black Coin with a crown on it

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Chinese (Traditional)	有色金幣 Yǒusè Jīnbì	Colored Coin		[?]
Dutch	Gekleurde munt	Colored coin		[?]
French	Pièce de couleur Pièce colorée	Coin of color Color coin		[?]
German	Farbmünze	Color coin		[?]
Italian	Moneta colorata; shared with Colored coin	Colored coin		[?]
	Moneta sfida	Challenge coin		[?]
Portuguese	Moeda colorida	Colored coin		[?]
Russian	Цветная монетка Tsvetnaya monetka	Colored coin		[?]
Spanish	Moneda de colores	Coin of colors		[?]