A guide to completing World 6-3 in Super Mario Bros 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

How to Clear World 6-3

Jump onto the rightmost Note Block and stay there. When you see the wooden platform on the right, jump onto it, then crouch if you're tall, to go past the ice column. Then jump up onto the ice platform with the Red Koopa Troopa on it.

If you're careful, you can stomp the Red Koopa Troopa, hold the Run button while you're in the air, then carefully approach the shell from the side to pick it up.

Make a running jump to the right, to land near the ? Block. If you're holding the Koopa shell, you can kick it at the ? Block to get a Super Mushroom or Super Leaf.

Carefully get the coins above the ice blocks. To the right of the gaps, there is a Red Koopa Troopa. If you didn't have a shell to hit the ? Block earlier, you can try to stomp this Koopa Troopa and hold the Run button while you're in the air, then carefully approach the shell from the side to pick it up. Then run to the left (you automatically jump over the small gaps if you're running) and hit the ? Block with the shell. Then go to the right again until you're on the platform with a Note Block above it.

Jump over the ice column, and try to stomp the Red Koopa Troopa and pick up its shell, and kick it at the first brick to make a vine come out. Or if you're Raccoon or Tanooki Mario, you can hit the brick with your tail. (If you don't want to climb up the vine, skip to the next paragraph.) Climb up the vine, then get on the Note Block and press the Jump button at the correct moment to jump high up. Land on the wooden block at the top of the pipe, then jump onto the pipe and go down it. Hit the Mega ? Block to get a Tanooki Suit. Then go to the right side of the room and run to the left to fill your P Meter, then fly up through the bricks in the upper-left corner to reach an area with coins. After you get the coins, go back down below, and use the pipe on the right to go back outside. Fall straight down from the right side of the pipe to land on an ice platform below.

From the ice platform after the three bricks,jump to the right to reach an ice platform, then jump to the right to reach an ice platform with a brick above it. Repeatedly hit the brick as quickly as you can to get multiple coins.

Go down to the ice block platform on the right, and when the wooden platform appears, jump onto it, then jump onto the ice column to avoid getting pushed off when the wooden platform goes under it. Jump to the next ice block, then jump on top of the ice column, then jump on top of the brick and get the three coins. Try to jump onto the wooden platform and quickly hit the brick to make a 1UP Mushroom pop out, then quickly jump on top of the block to get the 1UP Mushroom before it falls below.

Land on the wooden platform, and crouch if you're tall, to avoid getting pushed off when the platform goes beneath the column of ice blocks.

Carefully stomp the first Red Paratroopa, and hold the Jump button just after you stomp it so you jump higher. Stomp the second Paratroopa and hold the Jump button to go higher, then go to the right side. Then run to the right and hit the Goal Block to complete the level.

After the Level

You can optionally go to the Toad House, where you have a chance of getting a Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, or Super Leaf.

If you can reach the Hammer Brother, you can fight them (two Hammer Bros) to get a hammer. Don't use the hammer on the rock near the Toad House. The pipe on the other side of the rock will just take you to the pipe near the start of this world.

You can then go to either World 6-2 if you haven't yet, or the first fortress of World 6.