Craig Pullen, UK Pinball Champion, explains how to play the tip pass - gently tapping the flipper button at the right moment to gently add momentum to the ball to pass from the tip of one flipper to the other.
Written By: Andy Beresford
Video Transcription:
OK. The next skill that we're going to talk about is the tip pass. Now, a tip pass is particularly valuable when in multi ball. What a tip pass is basically is when you got the ball trapped on the flipper, or you're trying to pass over, and we hit the ball right at the end of our flipper just a tiny, small hit here just literally just a, like that, can you see just a slight difference in the flipper. It's just a really small little touch. If you watch my hand, it's just a really small movement to move the flipper. Just that little bit. You don't want it to do too much.
During multiball, I will cover this properly in a bit. I tend to play it in the same way as I do it in a single play. A lot of people play multiball and they're just hitting all the balls around. But what's going to happen invariably in that situation is you're going to lose one of the balls. So what I try to do is, if I can, get into a position where I've got one trapped, and then I can play with the other ball. In this situation, if I can get in this situation, now this is the situation I was talking about, the tip pass. What I am going to do, I am going to try, this is called a cradle separation, so you've got two balls on the same flipper, and obviously we don't want that, we want one on each flipper. So what I'm going to to do, I'm going to try to bump the ball up, up the sling shot so that it doesn't make contact, the ball comes back down, hits this ball, and then sometimes with a little tip pass, the ball will come back over onto this flipper, with still having the ball safely secured there.
This is another situation where a tip pass can be useful. There you go. That was a really nice tip pass. I'll try to do that again if I shoot this ramp, so the balls got not quite enough momentum to go over, so I do just a little tip pass and then it make its way over to the other flipper.
And a little tip and then its over. It just that tiny little touch at the end of the flipper because the way that the flipper is made is that there's two coils inside. There is a small coil and a big one and the small one is the one that has that last little bit. You have the big brute one and then you got that last little one which is called for the finesse. If we're able to do that, let's try one more time, and then you got a little tip over.
That's your tip pass. Again, all I'm trying to do is achieve, is get the ball back under control. With all that momentum coming down, you want to take that out of it, a small little pass will get you back underneath control. OK. So that's the tip pass.
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