Basketball (item)
Abasketball appears as an item inPipe Down! TheMushroom King bought two basketballs forPrincess Toadstool's 99th birthday party (her birthday being in "fungus years"), although she dribbles away with one of them while possessed by a pair of sneakers, ignoring the other one.Mario andLuigi can find the second basketball on a set of stairs whileToad leads them to Toadstool's shoe vault, and Luigi carries it under his arm. It can be used if the two of them reach a chamber with three large pipes while lost inPipe Land. Luigi gets the idea to throw the basketball into the pipes to hear what is inside. When he tosses it into the center pipe, it rattles around the pipe for a short while before it reappears from a side entrance, and he and Mario decide that it has nothing of interest. Luigi then tosses the basketball into the leftmost pipe, and they hear it get chewed to pieces by a monster, leaving them to conclude that they should take the rightmost pipe.
