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|image=[[File:SMO Screenshot Board.jpg|200x200px]]<br>Screenshot from ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])

|effect=Provides information when read.

 

'''Travel Tips''', also known as '''signs''',<ref>{{cite|quote=To read signs, stop, face them and press [B]. Press [A] or [B] to scroll ahead.|author=[[Lakitu Bros.|Lakitu Bro]] during "[[Big Bob-omb on the Summit]]"|date=1996|title=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' by [[Nintendo EAD]]|format=North American localization|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=To read a sign or talk to someone, press the B Button. (You can talk to some people just by stopping right in front of them.) If a message is long, press the A or B Button to continue reading. Often, important hints are written on the signs.|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=1996|title=''Super Mario 64 Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NUS/USA/NSME/NSME_E.pdf|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2005|title=''Super Mario 64 DS Instruction Booklet''|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=While standing in front of certain characters or signs, you can press {{button|wii|a}} to speak or read.|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=13}}</ref> '''signboards''',<ref>{{cite|quote=Stand in front of certain characters and press the A Button to talk to them, or stand in front of signboards and press the A Button to read them.|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe]]|date=2010|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2 Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/EUR/SB4P/SB4P_E.pdf|location=Großostheim|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|page=18}}</ref> or '''boards''', are guideposts in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise that debuted in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''. In all appearances, a Travel Tip provides information on an available action or the current level when prompted. Travel Tips are either staked into the ground like [[Stump|post]]s, or attached to the side of walls. Staked Travel Tips often have a secondary interactive element.

 

The player is rarely obligated to read Travel Tips. Rather, they are available at their discretion. They are comparable to [[Message Block]]s. In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', there are a few boards that are [[Boards (characters)|conscious, speaking characters]].

 

==History==

====''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''====

Signs can be read by the player character in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. They were incorporated to compensate for the diversity of moves the developers included in the game, which they worried would intimidate some players. At the same time, they did not want to impose instructions onto them, especially if they became more experienced overtime.

 

Typically, signs provide information on a move the player can perform, or contextualize a potentially cryptic detail in the environment. The signs that are staked into the ground can be [[Ground Pound|ground-pounded]] by the player character, rendering it unreadable unless they exit and reenter the course. Like [[stump|post]]s, it takes [[Mario]] and most of the other playable characters in ''Super Mario 64 DS'' three strikes to fully bury the sign. It takes [[Wario]] only one. Signs otherwise occur pinned to walls.

 

Posted signs that contain information on actions.

 

Posted signs that contain information on actions. Most Boards are inanimate objects that give Mario insight on his surroundings or actions when read. However, a few Boards are speaking characters that give specific instructions on how to use objects or power-ups that change how Mario is controlled.

 

Posted signs that contain information on actions. One of them is a speaking character.

 

Signs that contain information on actions. Some are fastened to walls, while others are staked into the ground. Like Arrow Signs, staked Travel Tips spin when struck by Cappy. ("Traveling Tip" is the in-game name in Super Mario Odyssey, but "sign" is a bit more ubiquitous. I highly doubt the NS remake of TTYD will call them "Traveling Tips", but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the more specific "Traveling Tip". Games sometimes employ more general, passive terms for subjects in-game and instead apply more specific terms outside of them, such as "octopus" for Roctos.)

 

 

====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====

 

 

 

==Gallery==

Sign Model SM64.png|''[[Super Mario 64]]''

Board SM64.png|''Super Mario 64''

Goomba Road.png|''[[Paper Mario]]''

SMS Asset Model Board.png|''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''

PMTTYD Sign.png|''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''

SPM Sign.png|''[[Super Paper Mario]]''

 

==Names in other languages==

|Jap={{ruby|看板|かんばん}}<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=1997|title=『Super Mario 64 振動パック対応バージョン {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NUS/JPN/NSMJ/NSMJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2004|title=『Super Mario 64 DS {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NTR/JPN/ASMJ/ASMJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2007|title=『Super Mario Galaxy {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/JPN/RMGJ/RMGJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2010|title=『Super Mario Galaxy 2  {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/JPN/SB4J/SB4J_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=18}}</ref>

|JapM=Signboard

|Fre=Affiche<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|language=French|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=35}}</ref>

|FreM=Poster

|Spa=Signo<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|language=Spanish|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=57}}</ref>

 

==See also==

 

==References==

{{NIWA|Bulbapedia=Signpost|Nookipedia=Item:Sign board (Animal Crossing)|Ukikipedia=Sign|ZeldaWiki=Sign}}

{{Super Mario Sunshine}}

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