Pirates of the Caribbean pinball rules and strategy

Pirates of the Caribbean chains its six Multiballs, uses Chapters to qualify movie wizard modes, and lets PIRATE award Super X or Add A Ball. Choose Philip Swift before plunging. At standard settings, about eight or nine Fountain of Youth upper loops qualify On Stranger Tides Multiball; Philip reduces that count. Shoot the loop once more to start Multiball. Before completing PIRATE, use the action button to select Super X (or Add A Ball during Multiball), then collect the award at the PIRATE target.

The goal

Choose a Character before plunging, use a colored movie shot and the Star Map for a Chapter, or repeat the Fountain of Youth upper loop for On Stranger Tides Multiball.

  1. How to start a mode

    Shoot Port Royal, the Chest, Maelstrom, Fountain of Youth, or Devil's Triangle once to light that movie color at the Star Map. Shoot the Star Map to start the last color its targets select.

    Recommended mode: The selected Chapter

    Chapters collect Characters and build the score level for the matching movie wizard.

    How to play it

    Shoot the flashing Character shots before the timer expires. If more than one Chapter color is lit, Tia Dalma can select the Chapter with the flippers and action button; other Characters receive the color selected by the Star Map.

  2. Start On Stranger Tides Multiball

    Choose Philip Swift before plunging to reduce the required loop count. At standard settings, about eight or nine Fountain of Youth upper loops qualify On Stranger Tides Multiball; Philip reduces that count. Shoot the loop once more to start Multiball.

  3. Start Super X

    Use the action button to select the purple Super X award, complete the six PIRATE lanes, and shoot the lit PIRATE target. Then hit the flashing 2x target to start about 30 seconds of 2x playfield scoring.

Alternative feature: Tortuga Multiball

Use this when gold is already close to 50.

  1. Press the action button whenever gold appears. After collecting 50 gold, shoot the lit right saucer to start Tortuga Multiball.
  2. Shoot lit major shots for Jackpots, then shoot the right saucer for the Super Jackpot. Complete G-O-L-D to add a ball.
Need to know
Character choice
Each character changes chapter, multiball, gold, or timer behavior; Tia Dalma gives chapter selection, while Jack Sparrow boosts treasure and stacked multiball scoring.
Chapters
A movie shot lights its colored skull, and the Star Map starts the last color touched and multiplies character values when several skulls are lit.
Movie multiballs
Five movie multiballs can stack with one another and with Tortuga, and starting another during the grace period revives multiball play.
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