Northstar Pinball Collective · Savage, MN · 44 games · first seen Apr 6, 2024 · last seen Jan 12, 2025
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Abra Ca Dabra pinball machine has 44 recorded tournament games in Savage, MN. A game runs about 15m, the median of 43 timed games, so budget for that in a round with a clock on it. The better-ranked player loses here 40.5% of the time, which puts it at 26/100 for difficulty. That is a low-variance machine: scores hold up and the stronger player usually wins, so it rewards the favorite.
Once all drops are lit hit the bullseye standup (ctr) to reset and keep racking points. Nudging up top will usually get bottom half drops.
Hitting the drop target with the light on behind it scores the bonus value (up to 5000) rather than the normal 500. Do that.
Safest plunge is to the 2 or 3 lane, 1 and 4 stand a higher likelihood of going STDM
To advance the bonus value either complete 1,2,3,4 OR complete all 10 drops and hit the super drainy center target.
Looks like Team One pin also points here: Team One is slightly different, in that lit drops score a fixed 5K from beginning of the game.
Team One: it's all about scoring WOWs. In Novelty mode, each WOW is worth 50K! Finish lanes 1-6 and every lit drop is now worth 50K
Team One: after you complete one of the drops banks, shoot the center standup for a WOW, aka 50K in Novelty mode.
Don’t drain
