If you can estimate where the ball is going to land, that's a free ball! Close enough is good enough. If you shoot your ball so that it bounces somewhere towards one side of the map, you have a good chance of getting it into the bucket. If you time this correctly, you can easily get a free ball if it lands in the bucket. If you shoot the ball at this angle at a peg, you can easily force your ball to quickly drop down towards the ground. Frequent free balls gives you an immediate skill shot point bonus. Make sure the ball is going to bounce where the bucket is headed. Lots of free points and possibly a free ball! Don't forget to try for a bucket shot for yet another free ball. If you can get your ball to hit a non-blue peg and have it bounce towards the general direction of another non-blue peg, you're half way there! This takes some practice and a small amount of luck. Basically, you have to get your ball to hit a non-blue peg, bounce a distance, and hit another non-blue peg. You can get free points often if you can pull these shots off.
That's all there is to Peggle! Keep reading below for more advanced techniques.įor a full list of trick shots, check "help" in the puase menu screen. Use right click to speed up the bucket to save some time. Long shots are an especially good way to rack up easy points.įor more precise movement, tap left/right (or use mouse wheel) and shoot with "enter" or "left click". If you can get free points through trick shots at any time, I highly recommend it. With most of the blue pegs out of the way, you can easily get Bucket Skill Shot points (check next section). If you left an adequate amount of blue pegs left over, this is fairly easy, and you can get rid of many pegs this way and get free balls. Once you have the score multiplayer at the maximum level, you have to attempt to get free balls by hitting a purple peg and a few blue/orange pegs. That way you have a higher chance of hitting stuff as the ball goes down/
Avoid hitting the blues at first, as counter-productive as this may seem. In order to start the process to get free balls, you have to get rid of all the oranges first to maximize the score multiplier. You main goal is to clear 100% in order to ensure that your score is maximized with a guaranteed end-level bonus of 100,000 points. If you die, you don't get the maximum bonus at the end.ģ. There are a few things you have to do in order to maximize your high score. As you see, my partner in crime, ELF, has tried valiantly to defeat me but my DIVINE PEGGLE POWER was too great. I blocked out most of my initials, but that's me. I'm the guy that's got a big score and who is going to help you get a big score too.