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Eight Ball

Bally 1977
Strategy updated: June 24th, 2026

Strategy

From left flipper - shoot candy cane

From right flipper - shoot spinner

Ruleset

Expect to nudge a lot to keep control and settle ball on left flipper

Most points from bonus and the spinner

Bonus is 3K per pool ball collected

⭐️ 1 - Shoot early candy cane to to hit 8-ball pad to light left kickback and the spinner

  • Note: Using left kickback turns off spinner light, so need 8-pad hit to relight

⭐️2 - Bonus multiplier advance is the star rollover in the candy cane

  • First 2 hits increase score of candy cane shot

  • Hits 3, 4, and 5 advance bonus X (2X, 3X, 5X)

  • Hit 6 is EB and all hits after 5 are worth 5K

⭐️ 3 - Shoot lit spinner

⭐️ 4 - Complete set of pool balls

  • You cannot collect 8-ball until you have the other 7 balls collected

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