I got 100% using Andreas 189's technique and subsequent suggestions! It only took about 1,000 tries, but it is a magical feeling!

*Update*

It IS most certainly possible

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This stage is sending me squawwwkkkkyyy!!!

24 hours on and I give up!!! The stage is nuts with 99% being my best :(

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@iMaxx
I thought KThomp2847 did quite a nice simple explanation of the method that our SG-16 TD grand master Andreas189 outlined. My attempt....
1) Fire white bird to more or less hit the snow block with the aerial mast
2) Quickly fire big red (low trajectory) to land just beyond the lowest wooden platform but the millisecond big red is in flight activate ME and toss the sardine can ASAP following the dotted flight trace of big red. I think a little pile of the 2 birds and sardine can may well help.
3) Repeat a gazillion times and pray and repeat and pray and repeat.

Scores of 88% to 97% are fairly common but there may also be much lower scores. So random.
From my experience 3 blocks remaining gave me 98%, 2 snow blocks 99% and 0 blocks 100%
but I think 1 or 2 blocks can give 100% as unseen off screen debris plays a part too. Needs to be fixed basically...

@iMaxx
I have not been dropping the egg bomb just so the White bird (may) hang around for when the ME arrives. I think having big red and fat white around helps. Not sure dropping the egg bomb would help too much.
I think it is fair to say that using Andeas189's method just gives people a 1 in 500 or 1000 chance of get a 100% clearance. I know I could probably get around 97% daily but above that it is really down to luck.
Have to say though that this level has never, ever annoyed me, even when it only gave me 99% with two snow blocks left, I just respected its stubborness :-)
So I hope when they fix it they don't make it TOO easy. Making 95% or 96% the new 100% would keep it challenging without being nigh on impossible.

Using Andreas189 and Habanero's advice, I have obtained many 97%, two 98%, and one 99% in three days of playing...but no 100%. Since Andreas got 100% twice, there must be minute details that make the 100% more likely. My experience has been, every hour or so, I get Big Red to shoot left and roll back right across the bottom, but that usually leaves three or four snow blocks floating on the next-to-lowest level, as Big Red rolls right under them. Most often it's the snow blocks on the right that are left over, because I usually pile the white bird and Big Red on the mid-left side before shooting the sardine can at them.

My question: Where exactly do you feel is the IDEAL location for the "stack," as I'll call it, the placement of Big Red and the sardine can pile, sometimes with the white bird, when the Eagle finally swoops in? If you could try to specify the exact block location (ex. how many blocks to the right and up/down of the left flag-topped snow block) where you try to get the Big Red/sardine can stack to be positioned? My theory is that my stack is usually too far to the left, so that when the Eagle swoops in and swoops back up at an angle, he's missing the right-most snow blocks...so even if I get lucky and Big Red does shoot left and roll back to the right, he rolls under several floating snow blocks on the right side that I'm not doing a good job of destroying.

Thanks for the help! I'm putting in the time, but luck doesn't seem to be enough here.

@cwheels

I went to the same technique a few days ago with lofting BB on a high arc and throwing the tc both under and over the flight path of descending BB. I like under better.

Anyway, i took a break and did the whole mooncake level 3 stars, all feathers, all cake completed. All done. It was the same level that you talked about, 2-6, that made me throw BB in the air on a high arc. I needed more time for the ME.

And then thought, you should do this on 1-16. It's worked very well on getting all the heads in position without BB vanishing. Much higher percentage of BB rolling back into the playing field.

1000's of launches. No feather. This has nothing, at this point, to do with skill. I daresay we could all aim any bird to micro micromillemeters. At this point, it's all pure luck. And I'm tired of 98%, 99%, and so on.

Lofting BB is for me the way to go. But I walked away from this level before and gave Rovio a thumbs down on seasons as a result. It was that level 2-6 that brought me back.

If someone legitimately gets every star and every other feather imaginable in this game, and the original angry birds and all of the released rio, I'm sorry, a week of intense effort should result in a 1-16 feather. That would be valid.

So unless something else earthshattering comes up, 1-16 is not going to be solved by me. I'm not happy with all the wasted time with no result, but this is ridiculous. AB was a fun and challenging diversion to dull times of the day, but this 1-16? Forget it. Not valid for any measure of skill. Just plain stupid luck.

Just spent the whole weekend working on SG-16...an estimated 10,000 tries total...Only got 99%. Now, I've been as patient as I can with the "stubbornness" of this level, but now it's just infuriating. I've finally had to admit that this is just a poor programming problem that should already have been fixed. I know every inch of this level, I've tried everyone else's strategy and dozens of my own over and over, and it's just stupid now. Congrats to those who have hit the lottery on this one. Now Rovio, please fix your mistake! I cannot believe that Rovio would want luck to play this big a factor. I had only one snow block remaining this morning and still only had 99%. Enough is enough.

@JackMeUp
I believe that there sure will have someone can get 100% with luck. Because i also having 99%.

And what do the people do who have all three Angry Birds Games with *everything* solved except this one achievement? There is nothing more to do.

@JackMeUp While you are entitled to your opinion, I disagree. While I don't know some of the users who have reported obtaining this feather, I 100% trust @Habanero. He is a long-established, honest, elite player and a great member of ABN. If he says he got the feather, then he got the feather.

@jackmeup
I do believe those that have been outrageously fortunate enough to get 100% without a week of solid effort. I'm sure they did 1000's of launches in those days of effort. But for whatever reason the Luck Gods shined on them early.

Andreas method is the key and I do believe he and others did it. Apparently twice for Andreas. But as Phantom said, luck outweighs skill. Other levels at some point have luck, but skill has always had more the edge. If you didn't have the skill to use your birds in the order given to you effectively and accurately, you would never have gotten to the point of achievement where a touch of luck finishes it off.

There IS a shot that will beat this level. And probably more than one. It sounds like one guy did it without BB. I always wondered about that. But it seems the prevailing technique remains Andrea's, with BB rolling back into the field of play.

I do believe it can be done. I just can't do it. I don't have the luck. I've had three 99%. The last one, last night, was when I said enough is enough. And that shot was a strange one. Heads THREE LEVELS UP. ME came down, with such a high flightpath, and took out the complete right side. The BB was still pinched back, bouncing off the launch platform, and took out the floor debris. I had one snow block towards the lefthand side untouched since the ME came in so high. And one beat up piece of glass that hit the floor after BB rolled through. 99%.

For those continuing, if you have not tried lofting the BB on a high arc, I highly recommend it. It still results in The Andreas Method of the BB bouncing off the platform. But the BB rarely expires before the ME rolls in. It survives 96% of the time. You want the sardine can just to the right of the BB. Touching but to the right. Preferably one level up with the sardine can. But still touching BB. Think about the geometry of how this pinches BB back. And raises the flight path of the ME to take out the right side.

You can throw the sardine above or below the descending BB on it's high arc. Both work fine. Time it so the sardine passes just above/below the descending BB while the BB still airborne. You will be amazed at how things fall into place after the BB bounces. With the sardine can ending up perfect.

This results in a much higher percentage of Andreas technique allowing to work. Much more percentage off BB rolling back into play.

From there, with everything appearing perfectly placed, it's all luck. How guys have been lucky enough to take out the right side by doing Andreas method is beyond me. I'm tired of having the BB roll back into play taking out everything on the ground, only to have four snowblocks on the right remain. I've never been able to figure that one out. Raising the flight path of the ME then leaves out the left side. So go figure.

Do try arcing The BB. It's a lot more fun, too. You get some crazy ricochets of the BB and hen head. Pretty comical. You just have to pray that the Luck Gods align themselves to finish the job. But it won't be me trying anymore.

Too much luck involved. But I do believe it can be done with that wheelbarrel full of luck!

@Andreas189, I'm ready to fedex my phone to you to clear this frustration out of my life!!!

@JackMeUp : That's because the user who creates the videos has been unable to do it himself. And most users here do not jailbreak their iOS devices -- nor would we expect them to -- simply to record video.

@jackmeup i for myself cant record a video of the total destruction, cause if you read my comments i tried every screen recorder from cydia but none worked on my ipod! i could send you two different pictures of the feather filling up to 100% cause i improved my score between the two destructions!! why whould anybody fake a picture?!?! it still is not more than a game!!!

No, *thats* the definition of a downright stupid setting of for a stage. Wanna do the math how many people out of all buyers of Angry Birds got that one?

Ask any developer if that percentage is still "the definition" of difficult or if it rather leans toward impossible just a little bit.

While we are at it, it is also "possible" to beat the number one in the highscorelist of gamecenter. Currently at a modest 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 points.

This is also the hardest player to beat but it must be possible, right? But I guess that is also just difficult to do.

In closing, if they are actually changing the threshold now, how did they find out that the setting is impossible? Just by the many forums like this one? You'd think they could employ some testers. By our little comparison, if they had 10 testers, about 0.00000001 tester would have gotten that feather. Should have tipped them of, dont cha think?

Pleased to see you got 100% TD byates3789. Congratulations!
I am going to ping in a bit of additional information that "may" help with the technique part of SG-16 (afraid I cannot help with the huge luck part OK)

I got 2 consecutive clearances in a very short 10 minute playing spell that both resulted in big red steamrolling left screen to right screen and I managed to note how the birds were placed before the ME arrived. There was basically a stacked triangle of big red, fat white and sardine can with the sardine can to the right of the two birds. (When tossing the sardine can I use a fractionally higher trajectory arc on the sardine can than for big red so that it may land to the bird's right, but a tight stack is probably enough)
This little stack resided immediately to the right of the first and the lowest wood platform
(wood which was still there)
Either Andreas189's original throwing method or elcapitan's high arc version can result in this stack so whichever you prefer really?

No 100% this time. It gave me 95% and 96% as there were about 5 to 7 blocks left but the basic end scenario was EXACTLY the same (deja vu) as the time it left me with 0 blocks.

I feel really sorry for elcapitan as to have so few blocks left 3 times over all giving 99% is so unlucky!!

@borderking... "triangle stack" (neat term) at about ground level.

I'm wonder if Rovio does this on purpose. Doesn't it get people more interested? No reason why they can't catch this before it comes out. Almost every update has a few problems and they seem to be ones that have happened before. I'm always on the edge of my seat whenever an update comes out to see what is fixed - see it works!!! I know there always are bugs when something new comes out or when it gets updated but it kinda makes you wonder....

I have the Solitaire game and in the Game Center achievements there are percentage indicators for certain achievements to see how close you are to getting it. I wish they would do that for the 500,000 block one in the main game!!!

Any update when a bugfix finally makes this level doable?

I'd love too see a Video of it... Its the only one I need.. and Its Bugging me.. lol

Damn! Damn, damn, damn! Got down to 4 blocks but only got 98%. Accidentally launched BB a little too high and took out most of the central part of the structure, threw the SC in after him and got him to roll back. Thought I had it! :(

Got it!

I used basically the same method as originally posted by Andreas189 (thanks!). The first white bird is aimed at the top of the mast and the egg is dropped just before it would hit the mast to destroy the mast and some of the snow blocks on the left. BB is launched with just a couple of pixels overlapping the bottom post of the launch mechanism. (This is important - any more or less overlap didn't work for me.) Immediately after the launch of BB (don't admire the arc) invoke ME and wait for a count of 1001, 1002 and then launch ME at the same angle as the initial launch of the first white bird. It should intersect with the path of BB and land on top of BB (which has to stick around which only happens about 25% of the time). BB must work with ME to destroy the entire upper right side and then have enough momentum to roll of to the right and then come back from the left to destroy everything else that remains on the ground. I had absolutely nothing left on the screen.

This took me thousands of attempts over multiple weeks (mostly on long flights to pass time). I got 99% four times in my pursuit of this last feather and wouldn't give up. It was *very* satisfying when I finally got it.

this is really fustrating, congrats jbuccino but i agree with border king i hav no idea wat your saying lol i am goin to try at this level till it is concured btw i think rovio shood fix this bug, make a new bird cuz its been a while and i relly want to see a new bird and they shood make either a space world a ice world or a underwater world if they make an ice world they shood make a new penguin bird that slides on the grown and hits some blocks