Here is our strategy for Angry Birds Seasons Ham Dunk All Star Level 4-2. The score in the video below is 127,530. Note, this video below reveals a glitch where the basketball repeatedly bounces through the hoop, obtaining 5,000 points each time.
Badge Alert! – To be eligible for the “Slam Dunk” badge you need to earn at least 163,000 points in this level. Proof in the form of a screenshot is required. Upload your screenshot to your album then leave a comment below while mentioning @admins.
Update: The glitch was fixed after Tropigal Paradise (Seasons v5.1.0). The level was slightly redesigned to prevent the endless hoop.
How do you handle this glitch. I had to stop it from going on for ever, @admins
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lol @ernor63 I had the same thing happen, I quit the level before it got out of hand
Yes but for me this level’s dead and you can’t accept any scores from this level. How many extra slam dunks are okay to have? 2,5 10 or a million?
I hear you @ernor63 The leader board for this level is dead. Give us a couple of days to figure out what to do.
How do you get the glitch to happen? So far it hasn’t started for me.
Like this
Glitch
To be honest, I’m not even sure if that qualifies as a glitch. The basketball behaves as it should, like every other level. It’s more of an anomaly, the basket was placed too low.
@sal9 – It is scoring points without the ball actually passing through the hoop, that is not how the game normally behaves.
You get points for hitting the net close to the ring too @burbman
It’s a glitch when the ball keeps bouncing …….. Forever ………. That violates all Laws of Nature. I let it run 24 hours and the ball just kept bouncing. I stopped it 1,515,000,704. It would have kept going forever. That to me is a glitch.
The ball bouncing and losing energy, but netting you 80k or so points before it dies, is not a glitch. I think the 165k cap that was put on is a good indicator of top scores without the glitch.
I mean 1,515,000,064
@elcapitan I came across you comment about the HamDunk Bouncing ball glitch and noticed you are eligible for a shiny new badge, the Slam Dunk badge. All you have to do is add a screenshot of your score into a comment… Just saying ;)
@admins
Thank you E-Star! So impressed with ya’lls effort and dedication. Wouldn’t have known to do this were it not for your comment/email.
Thanks again.
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You are more than welcome @elcapitan always a pleasure to help a long time member such as yourself to a shiny new badge :D
It should be in your badge pocket right now!
there are things in the angry birds world that bounce things higher and higher each time though….. i’ve known of a few “forever* situations in various levels…..i agree the level should be closed, just wanted to state that technicality
Oh dear, didn’t know this was a glitch until I came here after posting my score. It didn’t go on forever, so I didn’t think much about it. Should I delete? I’ll leave it for now until a decision is made.
Leave it for now, until we decide how to proceed.
I’m testing the system now. I’m on 52mil and still counting… and I have a back-up before I started it if it fails big time.
52mil+
Just cos I’m curious and a bird flinging nerd (not much flinging on this,LOL) I let it run over night and a good part of the day to get to 1 billion. End screen actually showed 10.006.912.609 but on the board I now have 1.000.689.984 as highscore, so defnetly some imperfection in the counter.
One Billion
Haha @ernor63. Wow!
I don’t want to close entry entirely, so I have set a new cap of 163,000, which is just below @bonneypattycat. This gives flingers something to work for, but keep things from getting out of hand. I think this is the best solution for now.
cc @admins
@birdleader – Does this mean we can enter our “glitch” scores in with a cap of 163,000 or are we suppose to try and obtain that without glitch?
I played this level 100 to 200 times and finally got the glitch to occur and once it started…it was very fast to add up! I went ahead and threw bird two and three as soon as I could which was right after I saw it happening so I wouldn’t end up with a million points… but it still finished at 939590, But it would have continued on a lot higher had I not stopped it.
I play on an original first generation iPad – version 5.1.1. So for those of you that say you can’t get it to happen…you probably can…it took me hundreds of tries to make it happen. Before that, the most I was getting was 3 or 4 “extra” left hoops with a first bird score of 42K+ to 45K+. The 45K+ was with a lucky right basket too and only King Pig remaining after bird one. I usually finished in the mid 90K’s+ on these 3 or 4 basket glitches. @mvnla2 I will mention you here too, as I know you were wondering about the versions and how many tries, etc.
@birdleader The cap of 163k is actually above my score, not just below.
@ernor63 and anyone else that has managed to get it running non-stop can enter 163k, right?
@birdleader and @admins not sure where things stand with glitch scores on this level. I play on an old Android tablet and got a glitchy 3,491,420 points. Not the billions that others have achieved but still pretty silly. Do we just enter the current cap on this level as our score? Or? By the way, I used the same first shot as the video. I can get the glitch started about once every 50 or so attempts on my device. Thanks.
@birdleader this is a wise decision. What I think what this means: any ridiculous score should be “translated” on the leaderboard to 163000. Am I right on this one?
I don’t see many people enter the cap score but since I’ ve managed to get the glitch going with the actual score of 1633920 I am entering the maximum allowed score for now. @mvnla2 I am playing on iPad Air version 8.1.1. It took me about an hour to get the glitch.
@admins – it appears that the walkthrough video is showing a glitch, where the basketball is repeatedly awarded the 5,000 points as it just sits under the hoop. Is there a clean three star method?
Has anyone come up with a 3* strat that doesn’t require the glitch? So far the couple of glitches I’ve gotten haven’t lasted very long and still left me with 2*. : ((
@mvnla2 – Currently at 99k without glitch, I think there is a chance to get a few more thousand there, and maybe three stars. Here is my strat.
First bird Highest arc possible without hitting first red overhead lamp. Drop egg just before hitting second lamp. This should put it between the pig holding the basketball and the speakers, propelling the ball up onto the ramp to roll down through the hoop. Bird rattles around up in the lights and picks up points there before falling on the ramp, usually breaking it, but once rolled through the basket for 5,000 more points. You want the left hand speaker pile to fall over on itself and break here as well. Score ~19-20k
Second bird – High arc, just clearing left speaker stack, dropping egg on left edge of bounce pad to blow TNT and begin destruction of boom box. Bird flies up through basket and knocks pig off the rim.
Third bird under left edge of boom box, expand when under the middle, throwing pieces all over the level to break more stuff.
Last bird bonus 10k
As I said, I am still at 99k and two stars, but there should be enough debris left to pick up another couple thousand and possibly reach three this way.
Edit – Second bird needs to clear RIGHT speaker stack, stupid dyslexia.
For me, @burbman‘s first shot has a much higher probability of getting the ball through the left basket. The great advantage is that you have a good aim point for dropping the egg, and the bird is traveling slowly at the top of the arc.
The downside is that the second shot is harder, and that you haven’t gotten rid of the king with the first shot. So far I haven’t been able to improve my 97K using either method.
Additional details on first shot: When Burbman says “First bird Highest arc possible without hitting first red overhead lamp. Drop egg just before hitting second lamp,” he means it. If you aren’t hitting the first lamp occasionally, you’re too far away. It’s almost impossible to drop the egg too close to the second lamp.
@admins I think we have a glitch or a bug. I was wondering about the score in the video going up after bird #1.
After wome retries I saw this:
Picture 1: Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 Glitch #1
Picture 2: Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 Glitch #2
Picture #3: Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 Glitch #3
Picture #4 (after 5 million I went on): Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 Glitch #4
Picture #5: final score when game finished when all the pigs were killed: Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 Glitch #5
I can imagine that this will be to high for the leaderboard. What to do?
What I think is this: there will be a badge for gaining more than x points. Then we have to enter 150k (or whatever) on the leaderboard.
Sounds like a good plan @bernersenn
Without the glitch I couldn’t get over about 90. Then lucked into the glitch. I like the idea of badge and max score. 150k seems about right. I’d really like to know what the 3* score is. My 124k with glitch is 3 star. But without it, never over 1*. Does that mean Rovio expects the “glitch” to get 3*?
@captrec @admins yesterday I had 99K and that still was 2*.
101K gave the first 3*.
I just scored 101K and still only 2 stars. No glitch on my iPad.
101k without glitch is a great score.
thank you, but it was luck, not skill
@admins I think the above pictures are sufficient to gain the badge, isn’t it?
Aww @bernersenn I am so sorry you got lost in the mix, our appologies! @sweetp can you award our dear @bernersenn his well earned Slam Dunk badge? Thanks!
@e-star no problem. Got a email this morning about updates on this page. So I thought, why not? Thanks anyway. Btw, hope to be back in one or two weeks from now.
Oh my gosh, my dear @bernersenn. Huge apologies for not awarding you this badge back in February! I think there were just so many flingers getting this glitch, somehow you slipped through the cracks and no one caught it. Thank you for your patience!
@sweetp please, no apologizing. I didn’t even notice that there was a badge for this. It was one of my ideas to solve the issue with the score. I got the badge and I am proud of it. As I mentioned to @e-star I will be back in one or two weeks.
The glitch must be fixed. Mine onl went thu once and stopped. Now how dose on finish without it? My high score has been 90890
I can’t do the glitch. It doesn’t work. I had it once in about 120 attempts. Either I’m not talented enough or my version doesn’t have the glitch. EXTREMELY frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is the 3*score for non glitch game?
95k but I don’t know if the glitch was involved. The only time I ever actually saw it, I only got one extra dunk.
I have not been able to reproduce the glitch. I scored 96,520, which got me two sodding stars. :/
97.300 now, and still two stars. This is really annoying.
I can’t activate the glitch, either. The basketball rolls through the basket, then rolls straight to the backboard stand. No bouncing! I’m at 87K, and still only one star.
Likewise. Got one bounce, so one slam dunk, and ended at 98k, which is still 2*. Very very very frustrating!!!!!!’
No glitch for me, but I can’t get a 3*. I can’t usually reach 80K. This level is broke.
I think we need two leader boards for this level. One for glitchy scores and one for the rest of us who can’t make it happen. I managed 97K with every possible non glitchy dunk and a 10K bonus.
Having not seen anything quite like this glitch before, I was stupid enough to allow a glitched level to complete so now I am stuck with a 900k + score and I haven’t backed up recently enough to remove this without removing recent genuine efforts. I hope Rovio can send out a fix for this level to make it as it was intended… I could not top 99k pre-glitch and that only gave 1 star. Big error made at Rovio with this level sadly…
Correction… my 99k score had given 2 stars not 1 star….
Glad to know I am not crazy. I spent forever on this level, got 90K+ and still only one star.. I thought I was going mad..
I have a registered score of 335,600! That did not involve the glitch, something I hit had a massive points total and I have no idea what!
I came across you comment and that score of 335,600 you got there makes you eligible for a shiny new badge here in the Nest, the Slam Dunk badge! All you have to do is add a screenshot of your score into a comment… Just saying ;)
Igual que la vidéo con muchissssssima suerte. 20 min. ….
I got a glitch then can’t stop to count up after bird #1 so finished two birds to damaged and count to stop and total 9,891,390
Stuck at 99k without glitch still 2*’s. At least I finally got 100% on mighty BB. :-)
Correction, my apologies. I just remembered I had the ball hit the basket 4 or 5 times to get me the 99k
I have yet to been able to replicate the glitch. I got it to bounce one extra time under the basket, but that’s it.
I wonder if it has to do with the version. I have an iPhone 5. I see a bunch of posters above talking about the HD version, which would be iPad.
Otherwise, I can’t figure out how to possibly three-star this level until Rovio puts up a patch.
@dr-omega
I too play on iPhone5 and cannot get the glitch to work where the ball bounces repeatedly. I can score multiple baskets but the ball always stops on its own accord. My best score was 155 and it didn’t look glitchy, just nabbed 8-10 baskets.
Can anyone else get the glitch to work on iphone5?
@dr-omega @foley200 – I’m another iphone 5 user & I cannot get the glitch to work like others on here for the large scores – my best is 139K which did involve the ball bouncing a few times otherwise no joy!
I guess unless you finished while the glitch was working your stuck. There is no way to get near the 3 star score!
103000 is still 2 stars…
Then why does it say 102,000* is the 3 star minimum?
Because very often the mods guesstimate the 3-star minimum before nailing it down exactly. They always mark such estimates with an asterisk. I can confirm 103k is 2-stars; it’s what I currently have, since I can’t replicate the glitch.
104350 = two stars, no glitch. I am using an iPad2, and cannot get the glitch to occur.
The real question seems to be what platform / operating system gives the glitch, and how many attempts did it take to make it happen?
@ernor63 @bonneypattycat @bernersenn @captrec — What device and operating system did you see the glitch on? How many attempts did it take you to get the glitch to start?
I am playing on an old iPad 2 with IOS 7. I have gotten a couple of extra bounces under the basket, but that is all.
@others — If you haven’t been able to get the glitch started, would also help to know what device and operating system you are on.
@Sal9 — Had to check video to see who made it; should have known it was you. What device and operating system, and how many tries?
@mvla2 – Ipad 3 and Ipad Air, both running IOS 8.1.3
@mvnla2 iPad Air 2, iOS 8.1.3
I was playing the level a bit differently from the walkthrough, but noticed my score was well below the walkthrough video, so I watched it and noticed the ball bounce a couple times by the hoop. I didn’t think at the time it was a glitch, but just giving a couple more basket scores. It took only a few tries to get a similar result, and only a few more to get my current 162k score. I haven’t tried again since, but I could probably duplicate it again in a hurry. I don’t know how difficult it is to get it going non-stop like @ernor63.
I’m not bothering with this level again. I am hoping @admins will cap this level soon (lower than my current score) to make the total score leaderboard more competitive. Maybe set the cap 10k above the 3-star level, whatever that is.
I couldn’t resist giving it another try. In 30 minutes, I could often get one or two extra baskets. Only once did I get more, for a total score of 135k.
My statistics: Trying the video strat to get the ball through the basket is ~1/10; Burbman’s strat is more like 1/3 to 1/5.
When I get the ball through the basket, I only get 1 or 2 extra baskets maybe 1/10 times.
I did the glitch twice I short succession on my Ipad Air, while it was runing up to the 1 billion I played some on my Ipad2 and IPhone5 but couldn’t do more than a few extra bounces and 120K-ish scores. Honestly I can’t say I did enough of efforts to prove anything.
@mvnla2, got it with iPad3 using iOS 8.1.3
I’d say about 100 attempts.
@mvnla2 – Finally got the ball to bounce a few times under the basket on my iPhone 5s. I modified my approach to bomb the king pig with my first shot, sending Matilda up into the upper right lights, and letting the boom box self destruct a bit before following up with my original first shot to the upper left lights. Third shot under the boom box remains and launching debris over to dislodge the pig hanging off the right rim.
@burbman — How many extra bounces do you think are in the 128K?
@mvnla2 – My 122k couldn’t have had more than four or five bounces, as I was in the low 60s before orange bird blew everything apart.
Until someone finds some additional method for gaining points here, I am going to say that three stars on this level without a glitch or power up is going to require three absolutely perfect shots. My best without a glitch was 99k but there was definitely more there to get.
@burbman — I guess I should ask how many times the ball went through the basket before you got more than 1 or 2 extra baskets.
While trying your strat, I accidentally released the egg just a smidge too soon, and Matilda hit the overhead bouncer, and maybe the one on the right to hit the right ball, which fell through the basket. The right pig also went. I had something like 40K from the first shot. Of course, I couldn’t even get the ball through the left basket. I’ve also seen both the left lamps totally destroyed by the second shot and some lucky metal balls from the third shot. Putting all this together seems a long stretch.
@mvlna2 using my iPhone 6plus with version 8.1.3 the best I have been able to do is 5 bounces for 25k. I switched over to my old phone which is an iphone5 with version 7.1.2 and I acheived the glitch on the 2nd try. Very frustrating. Stupid level. ;)
Ok, so I kept at it on my iPhone6, because it was driving me crazy not to get it. 3 hours later it finally happened! So, I can confirm it works on iPhone six with version 8.1.3 :)
I’m playing on a Kindle HD…I think I can say this was not a “glitch”, because, the ball went thru the net, over to the backstop, came back, bounced into the rim (but from the left) scoring the 5K, then bounced to the right a couple times without hitting the rim, then bounced back and hit the rim one time scoring another 5K. The next two shots were like the video, with the 2nd white bird carcass bouncing back into the TNT on the right for extra damage, and the orange bird into the debris. It seems to be what a ball might normally do, but what do the rest of you think?
I use the iPad 2, I’m up to 104460 which is only 2*, only had one extra bounce.
@jonstad — How depressing that even 104K is still 2*. How did you get so high with just one extra bounce? I think even my 97K probably had 2 extra bounces.
For the record, what operating system are you using?
@mvnla2 using IOS 8.1.3, I got a good ricochet on right side, hitting the lights, ball and got Matilda through the basket, but haven’t been able to repeat that. Only level I haven’t 3*’d so very frustrating.
Apart from the glitch I want to say that this level in normal way can lead to a reasonable score: here a picture from the scene after the first bird Seasons Ham Dunk #4-2 first bird potention
The picture was taken in one of my first tries
@admins, I have a question/concern about the score entry now being closed. I understand why, however those of us who haven’t been able to enter any score will have 1 score/level less than the 28 members whose scores have been entered on the Leaderboard. To keep the boards “equal” between or for all members, shouldn’t the scores already entered be removed so there’s a level playing field if this entry stays closed? If this has been addressed, I’m sorry, but I looked here before positing.
@justpast40 We will remove the existing scores soon, if we leave score entry as closed.
Cc @admins
Thanks Slim @amslimfordy, I suspected so, but it doesn’t hurt to ask
103460 on iOS 8.1.3 a no glitch
Do we have confirmatiom that it IS a glitch? 103460 was fluff icily to achieve. I’m wondering if perhaps it’s not a glitche entirely. To continue to a billion, yes, I get that that’s the glitch. Still… 103k and just three stars. Idk. I’ve been playing for years and never experienced a level like this.
This still works on my old ipod touch with iOS 6.1.6. I got maybe 1 in every 100 times it went through the hoop.
Meaning 1 in 100 times that it went on forever.
It seems that this will be the first level on all Angry Birds editions that I’m not able to 3-star. On my iPhone 5, iOS 8.1.2 I can’t get the glitch to happen and it looks like there isn’t enough stuff to destroy to get the points for a 3-star score without the glitch, even if you get 2 hoop scores (the left hoop with the ball, the right one with the bird).
Is there anyone who scored 3 stars without using the glitch?
This level is seriously buggy. I am playing on an iPhone 5S. After many many tries, I cannot get the multiple bounce glitch to happen. At most I get 5000 points for going through the basket in the first place, then ONE bounce for an additional 5000 points.
Never have I seen more than one 5000-point bounce.
My “clean” non-PU high score is 98,560 and two stars.
I managed to get three stars with 105,550 using the shock wave power-up. I know that power-up scores are not permitted in the leaderboard, so won’t be entering that score.
I have seen another bug. Sometimes the wooden structure in the middle seems to drift to the left as if pushed by an unseen hand. There is no apparent reason for the drift. It just happens. I’ve seen this many times.
I have some questions.
1. Is it even possible to three-star this level without the shock wave power-up and without the basketball bounce glitch?
2. Did Rovio figure in the shock wave power-up and/or the multiple basketball bounce glitch in figuring the three-star threshold? Do they even realize that on the iPhone 5S, the multiple bounce glitch does not happen?
3. Is Rovio sacrificing their quality standards in an effort to rush out new levels?
One of the reasons I like playing Angry Birds is the fact that every level is winnable (“three-star-able”) eventually. There are very challenging levels, but I can usually see a path to success with the challenging levels and, eventually, get my three stars.
When I can’t even see a path to success without the use of power-ups or this new “glitch” gimmick, then the game is no longer fun but an exercise in frustration. In this very same Ham Dunk series, the Istanbul level is virtually impossible to get a “mighty basketball” 100% without the unpredictable lucky bounce in the ABN walkthrough. After many tries, and only 93% tops, I had to abandon that effort. A game that is virtually unwinnable is no fun.
An excellent comment. It’s really hard to know what Rovio was aiming at with this level, as non-PU, non-glitch three-star scores seem utterly out of reach.
Although as a rule I don’t use PUs, I, too, used the Shockwave bird to reach 105k and three stars because it would annoy me no end to have this level–and only this level–at two stars. But, then, after doing that and having played the level dozens and dozens of times with no glitch (on my iPod Touch) in sight suddenly the glitch happened, and, although I tried to leave the level as quickly as possible, I still ended up with a million points. Ridiculous.
Rovio needs to do something. Now. Not 3 months from now, or whenever the next planned update of Seasons might be. And, yes, the evidence that they’re routinely releasing insufficiently game-tested levels has become overwhelming.
It seems to me that Rovio is making a few levels in each new release nearly impossible to 3* without using PUs. May just be my opinion.
Maybe Rovio simply wants players to use PU and (in next upgrades) force them to BUY PU?
For some AB players using PU is some kind of dishonour but for the others it’s the normal way of playing. If there’s more such levels in AB, the more players would buy PU…
It’s only my opinion.
I have only 2 stars with “clean” playing, as @daboid has written. With score about 94-95 k (one bird left). Level seemed to be almost clean of debris.
I saw this glitch only two times, but without several-million-scores in my case (max 102k – still no 3 stars).
@mvnla2 you could be right. I’m suffering now several days on 4-9 although it also could be a lack of skills. Days and days I’m playing this one, but still 2 stars. Never had this experience. 2 stars!!
Buggy it is!
Once i accidentally dropped an egg right after the launch. And guess what?? It was floating in the air, slowly to the right, and only dropped and exploded once it had reached a location to the right of the first concrete surface below the launching pad. No, it wasn’t travelling on that concrete, it was clearly floating above it. Simply unconvincing.
For the record, I play on Iphone 5S and I’ve had the glitch a few times. Not the infinite bounce glitch, but up to about 10-12 bounces. My glitch high score stands at 168k.
@f91jsw Did you know your score of 168k makes you eligible for a shiny new badge… all you have to do is post a screenshot of you score :D
I finally got the glitch and let my score run until 10+ million points. I took a screen shot in hopes of badge perhaps opening up (@admins).
I entered my non-glitch score, and I can’t three stars either…
Is the level possible to 3-star without glitch? Only level I have left in Seasons ad I don’t want to use PU or glitch
@bad-piggies-2 – maybe? just barely, unless somebody finds another stockpile of points someplace on the level.
Anyone got the feather on this level yet? Damage at the end seems to be all over the place. Got both basketballs and almost all debris, 39%. Best is 97% but there was lots of stuff not destroyed, including both basketballs
@syrus – I’ve just managed to get the feather! I sent the first Matilda to drop her bomb immediately on the wood below the sling her carcass did a small amount of damage on the right side of the level, then I quickly launched the ball to replace the pig on top of the boom box – I still had some debris left but gained 100% – good luck
@earthbound‘s solution is the way to go in case anyone else else is having trouble getting the ‘feather’ on this level like I was: ball carrier to replace the pig on the boom box seems to be the key. I tried other ways with practically no debris remaining but couldn’t get over 40%…what????? Put the carrier on top of the boombox and got 100% on the first try (& with much more debris left over). Interesting level to say the least!
I still haven’t managed Total Destruction with the Mighty Eagle (Mighty Ball) in this one, but thanks to your tips I think I got some pretty good insights:
– the important thing is to destroy the 3 small “iron” balls next to the TNT boxes;
– it helps causing some destruction on the left side of the level (immediately next to the sling platform) but being careful not to disturb the central “boombox”;
– to be able to correctly place the Ball Carrier “replacing” teh pig on top of the boombox (the crowned one, with the purple cap and foam finger), it helps to take it out first with some other bird (not the orange one!) but again, careful not to disturb the boombox structure.
Hope this helps! ;o)
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If you can bomb the closest ball to the slingshot backwards through the net and then either drop the ball on the net through the net or get one bird through on a rebound you’re far more likely to get the 100%. Just got it on my second go. :)
@syrus – just got the feather too, but I think this feature is as flawed as everything else about this level. I’ve had what seems to be a complete clear of debris, and scored only 33%. This time I had several planks and other debris and got 100%. So no idea whatsoever what triggers “total destruction”. It’s nonsense really. Perhaps Rovio will acknowledge they have messed up here and fix it?
Cc – @earthbound
This level is so completely out of line it’s not even funny. Who quality tested this level at Rovio? I’ve pulled this level over 100 times and haven’t even gotten 2 stars yet and I’m an experienced flinger. This is beyond the pale if you ask me!
It’s not a glitch.look very carefully here. You need to get the first ball to barely bounce so when it goes backwards towards the net it is doing so as purely a role and without bounce. I got 45k on that first ball. From there it was easy to get 130k. That said it is the hardest level I’ve ever tried and took an hour!