Kings & Queens

This game requires completing as many of the different cards as possible, ideally all 16 of them. Collect the Aces with the top center lane, center outlane and two lower side lanes. The Kings are two top lanes and the two upper side lanes. Queens are two top lanes and the two lanes between the Ace lanes and the four center saucers. Jacks are two top lanes and the two lower stand-up targets. Each lane or target scores 5 points at all times.

The major points on the game come from the four saucers. Each saucer awards 10 points plus 10 more for each of that rank of card collected; all four of a rank gives 50 points. The real key to this game is how the saucers eject: each one feeds the saucer to its right. That means that a ball landing in the Aces saucer will score Aces points and also points for all three of the other saucers, while the Jacks saucer scores just Jacks. The Jacks saucer ejects the ball towards the right flipper. Ideally, you want to collect lots of cards, then shoot the Aces saucer all day. With the cards complete, that’s 200 points per Aces shot.

Note the posts on both sides of the narrow center drain. Most of the time when a ball nears it, it will at least graze either a flipper or a post, giving you a chance with proper timing and perhaps nudging to save the ball.