Fan-Tas-Tic pinball rules and strategy

The Strategy

Fan-Tas-Tic stores base bonus for one of three Spin saucers to collect through the under-playfield wheel. Use the right flipper to shoot the left A lane toward the top saucer, raise bonus through upper rollovers, and repeat the wheel route for bonus, multipliers, gates, or other useful awards.

The goal

Hold a raised flipper so a slow ball settles against it, giving you time to plan your next move. when possible, then use the right flipper to send the ball through the left A lane toward the top spin saucer. Build base bonus through upper play and collect it only through favorable wheel awards.

  1. Let a controllable ball settle on a flipper before choosing the next upper route.

  2. Transfer to or hold the right flipper when that can be done safely.

  3. From the right flipper, shoot through the left A lane toward the top spin saucer.

  4. Accept a broad B-lane feed into the top bumpers when the A lane is unavailable.

  5. Use top rollover disks and natural upper action to build base bonus toward 10,000.

  6. Repeat the top-saucer route to spin the wheel and collect bonus, bonus multipliers, or other useful awards.

  7. Use a lit A or B lane and an opened right gate only through the same safe upper-playfield flow.

  8. Return to a Hold a raised flipper so a slow ball settles against it, giving you time to plan your next move. after every survivable top exit and repeat.

Alternative route: B-lane bumper flow

Use this plan when the A-lane shot will not reach the top saucer or its return is unsafe.

  1. Stop forcing the A lane from a poor right-flipper angle.
  2. Use a broad shot through the right B lane into the top bumpers.
  3. Let the bumpers find rollover disks and the top saucer naturally.
  4. Read the full top exit before attempting to Hold a raised flipper so a slow ball settles against it, giving you time to plan your next move..
  5. Return to the A-lane route only after its feed becomes reliable.
Need to know
Three spin saucers
The top saucer and two side saucers spin the under-playfield award wheel and score the value where it stops.
Wheel awards
The wheel can award 3,000, bonus, double or triple bonus, maximum base bonus, an open gate, lit A-B lanes, or star progress.
Base bonus
Top rollover disks and the side-of-center standups build base bonus to 10,000, but bonus scores only through a wheel award and resets each ball.

Machine setup

  • Confirm Fan-Tas-Tic ball count, add-a-ball or replay treatment, and wheel behavior.
  • Test the A-lane feed, top saucer, right gate, and both upper exits.
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