Touchstones, also named Touch Screen Platforms and rainbow-colored blocks, are a type of object which first appear in Super Mario 3D World.
Description[]
Touchstones are a type of movable platform that can be temporarily moved to a set position. The player can do this by using the Wii U GamePad in the original Super Mario 3D World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker releases. For the games' respective Nintendo Switch versions, Touchstones can be activated using either the Nintendo Switch's touch screen in handheld mode, the 
button while using dual Joy-Con or a Pro Controller, or the 
button while using single Joy-Con, as all of these methods summon the touch cursor. A Touchstone returns to its original position after being tapped a second time or after a set period of time.
In Super Mario 3D World, Touchstones are colored purple, but in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, they appear in a variety of colors.
In Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[]
Touchstones only appear in three levels, two of which feature Captain Toad as the playable character, Puffprod Peaks, Captain Toad Plays Peek-a-Boo and Captain Toad's Fiery Finale.
In Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[]
Touchstones appear in more levels, and they first appear in Touchstone Trouble, where they are the main feature.
In WarioWare: Get It Together![]
Touchstones appear in the microgame Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, based on the game of the same name. The player's object for the microgame is to push a Touchstone to create a slope for Captain Toad to walk on so that he can get to a Power Star. If the player pushes the wrong Touchstone, Captain Toad is blocked from being able to get to the Power Star.
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| Characters | Protagonists | Captain Toad • Captain Toadette |
| Antagonists | Wingo | |
| Levels | Episode 1 | Plucky Pass Beginnings • Walleye Tumble Temple • Touchstone Trouble • Mushroom Mesa • Double Cherry Palace • Shy Guy Heights • Spinwheel Library • Mine Cart Tunnel Throwdown • Spinwheel Bullet Bill Base • The King of Pyropuff Peak • Piranha Creeper Cove • Briny Bowl Swimming Hole • Turnip Cannon Jungle • Pop-Up Prairie Town • Drop-Road Dash • Bizarre Doors of Boo Mansion • Blizzard on the Star Express • Wingo's Watchtower |
| Episode 2 | Chute Scoot Slopes • Stumper Sneakaround • Mine Cart Sunset Rundown • Sinister Street Signs • Floaty Fun Water Park • Drift-Along Canyon • Sliding Slab Shuffle • Spooky Specters at Shadow Manor • Draggadon's Revenge • Spinwheel Cog Ruins • Windup Stairs • Up 'n' Down Terrace • Clear Pipe Puzzleplex • Midnight in the Wandering Woods • Double Cherry Spires • Bullet Bill's Touchy Trials • Spinwheel Sky Fort • Battle Tower Blitz | |
| Episode 3 | Rolling Inferno • Seesaw Sizzle • Beep Block Sky Plaza • Pickax Cave Plummet • Stumpy Springs Sanctuary • Biddybud Snow Stroll • Cagey Condor Caper • Up 'n' Down Desert • Mine Cart Ruins Rumble • Multi-Vator Mayhem • Flip Panel Footpath • Rock Block Badlands • Secret of the Golden Realm • Shy Guy Shadow Den • Razzle-Dazzle Slider • Poison Canal Cannon Run • Fright Train Fight • No Sleep at Magikoopa Keep • Retro Ramp-Up • Twisty-Turny Planet • Ghost Gallery Gambit • Touchstone Turmoil • Color Crate Carousel • Trick-Track Hall • Deep-Space Gyromajig • Magma Road Marathon • Scalding Scaffold Sinkhole • Wingo's Whackdown | |
| Bonus Episode | Super Bell Hill • Conkdor Canyon • Shadow-Play Alley • Clear Pipe Cruise • Toad Brigade to Mushroom Mesa! • Toad Brigade to Trick-Track Hall! • Toad Brigade to Bullet Bill Base! • Toad Brigade to Magikoopa Keep! • Mummy-Me on Flip Panel Footpath • Mummy-Me on Drop-Road Dash • Mummy-Me at Pyropuff Peak • Episode 1 Prologue • Episode 2 Prologue • Episode 3 Prologue • Mummy-Me Maze Forever • Coins Galore • More Coins Galore • Even More Coins Galore | |
| Bosses | Main Bosses | Wingo • Draggadon |
| Enemies | Enemies | Ant Trooper • Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba • Conkdor • Flaptor • Piranha Plant • Shy Guy • Walleye |
| Items and objects | Items and objects | 1-Up Mushroom • ? Block • Beep Block • Boost Pad • Brick Block • Cannon • Cart • Clear Pipe • Coin • Coin Stack • Donut Lift • Double Cherry • Flip Panel • Gold Mushroom • Invincibility Mushroom • Key • Ladder • Mystery Box • P-Switch • Pluck Patch • Potted Piranha Plant • POW Block • Power Star • Stamp • Super Gem • Super Mushroom • Super Pickax • Turnip • Warp Pipe • Spinwheel • Turnip Cannon |
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| Characters | Playable characters | 18-Volt • 5-Volt • 9-Volt • Ashley • Dr. Crygor • Dribble • Jimmy T • Lulu • Master Mantis • Mona • Orbulon • Penny • Pyoro • Red • Spitz • Wario • Young Cricket |
| Minor characters | 13-Amp • Alien Bunny • Club Goers • Doris 1 • Fronk • Game bug • Joe • Leo • Mega Bug • Ms. Munchly • Mona's Elephant • Mona's Monkey • Mona's Pig • Ruffington • The Supreme Developer • Wario Bug | |
| Cameo characters | Bowser • Captain Toad • Claude • Dimitri • Edelgard • Fuzzy • Ice Climbers • Link • Luigi • Mr. Game & Watch • Mario • Pikmin • Samus • Toadette • Yoshi | |
| Microgames | Intro Games | Defend the Flowers • Eye Exam • Flee the Flashlight • Land in the Sand • Rocket Rush • Seeing Stars • Sleep Clinic • Spiky Wario • Strike Gold • Swordplay • Treasure Hunt • Tummy Trouble • Wanted
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| That's Life | A Call to Fall • Appealing Mask • Break the Bank • The Cleaners • Delivery Center • Don't Waste the Paste • Face Wash • Foggy Glasses • Garbage Day • Gold Digger • Good Times • Hide-and-Seek • Hit the Switch • Hosting Hustle • Is Anyone Home? • Missing Remote • Music Mischief • Nail the Nail • Rock-a-Bye • Sanitation Station • Stop the Stopper • The Tooth Hurts • Wayward Water
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| Fantasy | A Big Fan • Alien Trap • Bubble Count • Dragon's Reign • Fishy Felines • Gimme Five • Mean Magic • Mermaid Tears •Mushroom Doom • Nightmare Fuel • Pit Stop • Seesaw Space Race • Slime Time • Sort It Out • Swing and a Kiss • UFBs • There's a Monster Behind You! • Umbrella Brothers • The Vampire Arose • Water You Waiting For? • Weird Windmill • Poseidon • Witch! Which?
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| High Tech | Bare Necessities • Block Puzzle • Choo-Choo Choose • Circuit of Light • Collision Course • Crash Course • Factory Tour • Gondola Lift • Great Escape • Hot Spot • Laser Labyrinth • Like It or Leave It • Manic Mechanic • Pop-Up Patrol • Ready to Launch • Ready, Set, Warp! • Ride the Line • Shutter Speed • ThePower of Magnets! • Virus Buster • Wayward Cyborg • Wind-Up Pup • You Can Lead a Robot to Water...
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| Nintendo Classics | Animal Crossing: New Leaf • Big Brain Academy • Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker • Destiny Game • Devil World • Donkey Kong Country Returns • Ele-Conga & Autoplayer • Fire Emblem: Three Houses • Game & Watch Judge • Ice Climber • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild • New Super Mario Bros. U • Nintendo Badge Arcade • Pikmin 2 • Splatoon 2 • Super Mario Land • Super Mario World • Super Mario Bros. • Super Metroid • WarioWare • Luigi's Mansion • WarioWare: Twisted! • Yoshi's Story
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| Nature | Break the Ice • Chompy Chirpers • Cloudy with a Chance of Sun • Crayfish Crash • Do Feed the Giraffe • Doggone Thirsty • Drop Zone • Egg It On • Family Reunion • Fluff It Out • Kitty Business • Ocean Hero • Roll Call • Safari Tour • Shoo, Fly! • Stick to It • Turtle Tipper • Look Both Ways • Peekaboo • Monochrome Creatures • Sayonara, Snakes • Web Surfer • Wheel You or Won't You?
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| Sports | Archer Assist • Baseball Break-In • Bounce Back • Boxing Cowards • Get Swole • Gymn-assist • Reel 'em In • Yoga Man • Basket and Ball • Peril-Chute • Keeping Track • Mole in One • Shadow Sports • Basically Water Polo • Spoke Too Soon • Please Reef-Cycle • Pump It Up • Rock Climber • Shot Blocker • Stroke of Genius • Sand-Trap Scoop • Wiggle Dancing • Wobble Boxing
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| Food | Alphabet Fruit • Apple Drop • A Weighty Matter • Bad Vegetables • Bare Banana • Blended? Splendid! • Bottle Ball • Burst Your Bottle • Corn Cleaner • Dessert Defender • Feast Your Eyes on This • Great Juice • Ice-Cream Lean • Light the Cake • Mouths to Feed • Rock Candy • Roll Cake • Slathered in Ketchup • So Kneady • Stove Slider • Take a Seat • Veggie Out! • The Waiter Awaits
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| Culture | A Moving Experience • Balance the Scales • Bamboo Falls • Blow Your Horn • Dig It • Drawbridge Dilemma • Fire Works • Garden Secrets • Hidden Holidays • Hide-and-Go-Ninja • Hot Hoops • Hot-Air Heroics • Magic Trickery • Manneken Pis • Matching Masks • Matchy Matryoshka • Perfect Percussion • Rock On! • Snowman Assembly • Spotlight • Star Light • Tempest in a Teapot • Wedding Bells
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| Anything Goes | Answer Me! • Boxed Up • Bug Out • Caution: Slippery • Cheeky Beaker • Fall for You • Flammable Goods • Garlic Catch • Get Away, Ghost! • Gifted • Inside the Storm • Muscle Out • Mystifying Mirror • Note-Able Art • Piggy Pluck • Pipe Maze • Pop Goes the Party • Potty Pursuit • Pushed to the Edge • Ro-sham-bo • Stop Thief! • What a Haul! • Same but Different • Unlock Me • Where Goes the Nose?
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| Story | Story | Anything Goes • Culture • Food • High Tech • Intro Games • Nature • Penny's Mix • Remix • Showdown • Sports • That's Life • Thrill Ride |
| Variety Pack | Minigames | Balloon Bang • Daily Grind • Duelius Maximus • Frenemy Frenzy • Friendless Battle • Gotta Bounce • High Five • Puck 'er Up • Rising Star • Sly Angle |
| Modes | Modes | Crew • Missions • Play-o-pedia • Story • Variety Pack • Wario Cup |
| Locations | Locations | 9-Volt's House • Ashley's Mansion • Diamond City • Dr. Crygor's Top Secret Factory • Feelin' Groovy Fitness • Goro Desert • Mona's House • Ohlaka Island • Penny's Lab • Sleepytown Village • Takechiko City • Wario's House • WarioWare, Inc. |
| Objects | Objects | Dribble Taxi • Epic Augmented Reality Game • Flatterbot • Golden Watering Can • Jet Tank One • Mandrake • Mona's Boomerang • Mona's scooter • Oinker • Super Pyoro |
| Miscellaneous | Other | Gallery • Penny's Theme |