Count-Down pinball rules and strategy
The Strategy
In Count-Down, completing the four colored drop banks raises Bonus X, and target hits raise base bonus. The top saucer collects their product, resets only the base, and leaves the multiplier ready for another collect.
The goal
Complete the green, yellow, red, and blue drop-target banks for 5x Bonus, build base bonus to 20,000, then collect it at the top saucer without losing the multiplier.
Reach 5x Bonus
Complete the green bank for 2x Bonus, yellow for 3x, red for 4x, then blue for 5x.
Build the base bonus
Keep hitting drop targets until base bonus reaches 20,000 and the top saucer lights.
Collect and rebuild
At 4x or 5x, use an upper mini-flipper or a bank rebound to send the ball into the top saucer. The collect resets base bonus but leaves Bonus X active for the rest of the ball.
Need to know
- Green, yellow, red, and blue banks
- Complete green for 2x. Add yellow for 3x, red for 4x, and blue for 5x.
- Completed-bank value
- After a color bank is completed once on a ball, each target in that bank scores 5,000 instead of 500.
- Base bonus
- Drop targets build it. At 20,000, the top saucer lights to collect the current base bonus times the active multiplier.
Count-Down is a repeatable bonus-collect game built from the green, yellow, red, and blue banks, a 20,000 base bonus, and the top saucer. Complete all four banks for 5X, raise the base to its cap, and collect it with an upper mini-flipper. Keep hitting drop targets to raise the base again while 5X remains active for the rest of the ball.
The goal
Complete the green, yellow, red, and blue drop-target banks to reach 5x bonus.When base bonus reaches 20,000 and lights the top saucer, use the upper mini-flippers to collect it; the collect resets base bonus but keeps the multiplier for the rest of the ball.
- Complete the green drop targets to reach 2x bonus.
- Complete yellow for 3x, then red for 4x.
- Complete blue to reach 5x bonus.
- Use the upper mini-flippers for green and yellow targets when their sideways angle is safer than a lower-flipper shot.
- Continue drop-target hits until base bonus reaches 20,000 and lights the top saucer.
- At 4x or 5x, use an upper mini-flipper, bank, or controlled Move the cabinet briefly so the playfield shifts under the ball, changing its speed or path after contact with a post, rubber, or wall. to send the ball into the top saucer.
- After the collect resets base bonus, rebuild it while the multiplier remains active.
Builds toward: Repeated 5x bonus collects
- Complete green, yellow, red, and blue for 5x bonus.
- Build base bonus to 20,000 with drop-target hits.
- Collect the lit top saucer at 5x.
- Rebuild base bonus while 5x remains active for the rest of the ball.