LITT Pinball Bar · Minneapolis, MN · 27 games · first seen Apr 17, 2025 · last seen Sep 6, 2025
Bad Penny Pinball Arcade · 18 games · first seen Jul 14, 2023 · last seen Sep 6, 2023
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Fish Tales pinball machine has 45 recorded tournament games in Minneapolis, MN. A game runs about 15m, the median of 44 timed games, so budget for that in a round with a clock on it. The better-ranked player loses here 46.3% of the time, which puts it at 29/100 for difficulty. That is a low-variance machine: scores hold up and the stronger player usually wins, so it rewards the favorite.
Alternate the center ramps. Six ramps lights Monster Fish, a hurry-up on the left orbit. Monster Fish gets bigger each time.
To light Super Jackpots score 3 jackpots (Caster Club then left orbit within 15s). This lights captive ball for 100M+ Supers until MB ends.
Lock balls in Caster's Club on the right side. During multiball put a ball back in Caster's Club to light jackpot on left orbit.
Light "Tale" by hitting fish stand-ups. Collect at the left orbit. 4 tales starts a valuable 30 second "Feeding Frenzy"; can be worth 45M.
Press the start button 3 times when the skeleton fish is on the display for a 10 point fishbone "bonus"
High scoring strategy is to go for Super Jackpots, alternate strategy is Monster Fish. Always go for the MF hurryup since it increases.
Flippers can be used for video mode instead of gun. Seems faster. Shoot boats and people. Hit enough & there's an EB waiting for you.
Always shoot the 6th shot for Monster Fish from the left flipper to feed the right. Don't waste time passing the ball to hit the hurryup.
Left inlane to right orbit advances lit captive ball awards. Shoot captive ball to collect awards.
The Extra Ball target (when lit) is much easier to hit with a quick backhand from the right flipper vs. shooting from the left flipper
Sometimes the boat shots can be backhanded. Sometimes you'd U-Turn it whether you meant to or not.
Maybe I don't know do you activate it from a tournament
