How the table is laid out
A triangle of 3 pop bumpers sits at the top: cyan, coral and yellow. The LIFT ramp climbs the left side and the CASCADE ramp the right, a drop-target bank sits on the right of the mid-field and a permanent rescue post stands between the flippers.
All three coloured rings, cyan, coral and yellow, sit together in the middle centre. The big bubbles, all 2 shells, are cyan on the middle left, coral on the middle right, and yellow and cyan side by side in the lower centre.
A spiral blows in a star-shaped, a flower-shaped and a heart-shaped cluster of small bubbles, each hanging from a gold-ring anchor, with a rainbow bubble and a bomb bubble among them. Only 2 ramp shots light the Mother Bubble.
The objective
CLEAN SWEEP: pop every big bubble and all three clusters before the clock runs out. The board is done when everything is popped. Only matching colours pop. Paint the ball in a top lane (flippers rotate them), at the centre rings, on a ramp or with the two-flipper swap. Pop an anchor to drop its cluster.
Strategy, step by step
- Every ring is in the middle centre, so a ball through the centre can come out any colour. Watch its glow before you flip, or set it with the two-flipper swap.
- The yellow and cyan bubbles share the lower centre. Crack both shells of one before swapping, so you are not bouncing between the neighbours.
- Star Core needs just two ramp trips to start multiball, and each later ramp lights the super jackpot; steer the spare balls through the star, flower and heart.
- On Star Core the rainbow bubble is the clean-up tool: pop it when several targets are cracked and let the rainbow ball finish them regardless of colour.
- Three anchors, three chances at WHOLE CLUSTER: the heart is usually the easiest to drop in one shot.
How to get 3 stars
QUICK: at least a quarter of the clock left at the end. NO BALL LOST: no drains (a drain costs 5 seconds). WHOLE CLUSTER: pop the gold-ring anchor of the star, flower or heart.
Common mistakes
- On Star Core, spending the rainbow ball on small bubbles while the four two-shell targets still stand cracked.
- Passing through the centre rings by accident and firing the wrong colour at the lower centre pair.
- Spreading hits across all four big bubbles; finish each bubble's second shell first.