How the table is laid out
A row of 3 pop bumpers crosses the upper field: cyan, coral and cyan. The LIFT ramp climbs the left side, and drop-target banks sit on both sides of the mid-field.
Only two coloured rings: cyan in the lower centre and coral on the lower right. The big bubbles, all 2 shells, are cyan on the middle left and middle right, and coral in the middle centre and lower centre. Cyan bubbles leave magnets; coral ones leave extra pop bumpers.
The brass boiler blows in two flower-shaped clusters of small bubbles, each hanging from a gold-ring anchor, with a gold bubble (points x2) among them.
The objective
CLEAN SWEEP: pop all the big bubbles, every shell, and both flowers before the clock runs out. Pop them in whatever order your colour allows. Wrong colours bounce, so pick cyan or coral from a top lane (the flippers rotate them), a ring, LIFT or the two-flipper swap. Pop a flower's anchor to drop it.
Strategy, step by step
- The two coral bubbles stack on the centre line, middle centre above lower centre. Stay coral and fire straight up the middle: the rebounds often crack the lower one on the way down.
- The cyan bubbles sit wide on the middle left and middle right. After each cyan crack, keep the colour and go cross-court to the other side.
- With only two colours, the two-flipper swap is the whole game: flip between cyan and coral right before a shot instead of fetching a ring.
- Climb LIFT when a bubble still has both shells; the armed ball it sends back pops the pair of shells in one hit.
- Pop the gold bubble in a flower before the anchor if you can: double points ride on every pop that follows it.
How to get 3 stars
QUICK: finish with at least a quarter of the clock left. NO BALL LOST: no drains (each costs 5 seconds). WHOLE CLUSTER: drop one of the flowers by its gold-ring anchor. Stars are separate and optional.
Common mistakes
- On Double Pressure, dropping a flower by its anchor before popping the gold bubble inside it, which throws away the double points.
- Rolling across the lower-right coral port on Double Pressure right before shooting the wide cyan target, which then shrugs off the ball.
- Leaving a bubble on its last shell and wandering off; its colour is still on the ball, so finish it now.