How the table is laid out
A row of 3 pop bumpers crosses the top: cyan, coral and yellow. The CASCADE ramp climbs the right side, a spinner turns on the left orbit and there are no drop targets.
Coloured rings: yellow on the middle left, coral on the middle right and cyan in the lower centre. The big bubbles, all with 1 shell, are cyan on the middle left and lower right, coral on the middle right, and yellow in the middle centre and lower left.
The brass boiler blows in three column-shaped clusters of small bubbles, each hanging from a gold-ring anchor at its top, with a clock bubble (+5 s) among them.
The objective
CLEAN SWEEP: pop every big bubble and all three columns before the clock runs out, in any order. Draining never undoes your progress; it only costs 5 seconds. Only matching colours pop; paint the ball in a top lane (flippers rotate them), a ring, CASCADE or with the two-flipper swap. Pop an anchor to drop its column.
Strategy, step by step
- Pair the bubbles by colour: two yellows (middle centre and lower left), two cyans (middle left and lower right) and a lone coral on the middle right.
- The yellow ring on the middle left feeds both yellow bubbles; a ball charged there drops onto the lower-left one almost by itself.
- The coral ring and the coral bubble share the middle right, so a single trip up that side can charge and pop in one go.
- Three columns mean three gold-ring anchors near the top of the board. Loop the left orbit past the spinner to reach them from above.
- Save a CASCADE climb for the lower right cyan bubble, which is awkward to reach from the flippers.
How to get 3 stars
QUICK: finish with at least a quarter of the clock left. NO BALL LOST: no drains (a drain costs 5 seconds). WHOLE CLUSTER: drop one of the columns by its gold-ring anchor. Dropping a column early also brings the clock bubble within reach.
Common mistakes
- On Golden Chain, chasing the lower-right cyan target from the right flipper; it is the awkward one, so save a CASCADE climb for it.
- Firing at the base of a Golden Chain column. Its gold-ring anchor is the target, and hitting it drops the whole column at once.
- Charging coral at the middle right and then flipping at the coral-looking bumper instead of the bubble.