One-million point shots in Grumpy Gobbler game

This is from an e-mail one of my friends has sent me; apparently, these guys have better inherent Geometry skills than most people, and can nail on the first shot a complete wipeout on the brick castles and easily get a million or better with their scores.

The trick to every block castle in Grumpy Gobblers is to hit the "lynch pin" brick. In every configuration at every level, there is one, solitary brick to hit that will cause the entire structure, or at least 90% of it, to violently explode and send bricks flying everywhere. If you get good enough on your aim, then you can hit that one brick on the first shot. If you do, then the game rewards you with a "super shot" and a score bonus of one-million points, or something close to that.

The "lynch pin", or the "keystone", brick is not always at the heart of a block castle. There are a few configurations where it is just off-center, or is actually a brick that does not seem to be important.

Here is where we can really see the effectiveness of the "lynch pin" physics.

An important strategy is to not let the wind play you. If you do not get favorable wind conditions, hit the big red X, then come back into the game; keep doing this until you get the right wind speed and direction to not negatively affect your shot.

The advantage to doing this is it saves time, avoids monotonous repetition, and speeds up training your pet. It may take some practice, but you got to train your pet anyhow, so might as well quickly develop this skill to save yourself the boredom.

In these pics, you can see that within one or two shots, the field has been cleared, a max score has been achieved, and we are done here. That ensures a boost to our pet of +4 before we feed a pet snack, and it only took one shot, or sometimes two. The magical "lynch pin" brick does not always explode the entire block castle -- sometimes there will be one or two left. But guess what, on those few remaining bricks, there will also be a "lynch pin" brick -- thus you can do the whole, complicated block castle in just two shots.

This guy also drops Evil Magma Peas

This time, I was playing in Avalon (about a month ago, actually) and I discovered a boss who drops Evil Magma Peas. And I got the proof to prove it!

Location: Harlequin Tower in Avalon and whatever boss resides therein. The top shot shows without a doubt that, while victory dancing, I got an Evil Magma Pea as a drop!

A funny thing happened on the way to the Gobbler roundup

I am proud to have here the MOST unique location in all of the spiral -- the firing ground for Grumpy Gobblers!

Apparently, due to a lost connection glitch, a friend of mine got the completely unique opportunity to walk around the whole valley where normally there would only be multicolored blocks and cardboard cutouts to blast with a cannon. He sent me a whole series of snapshots from different spots around the valley. Scattered throughout the valley were various blocks, and where the block castle once stood, there were some floating blocks in a good resemblance of post-modernism art.

I only posted these three pictures, but may post another or so for chuckles. My friend says that he was able to fully explore the valley - from the cliff face to the houses to the multilevel landscape... everything!

Oh yeah, and happy birthday to me.

By the way, happy birthday to me, thanks guys who remembered.

Yes, I am a Sagittarius (the centaur with the bow)

Back to blogging!

Hey friends who read this!

Ok, sorry for the long lag since August. As many friends already know, and as others do not, Life took a big turn for me that month.

Get your coffee, it's story time.

My brother, during a stay with related-by-marriage relatives in Texas, got me hooked up with a sweet management job with a family owned car dealership. Being fresh out of home-schooling high school, this was an amazing opportunity, and thankfully I am smart enough at my young age to see that and to seize it.

I also got into an expensive (and I am guessing that makes them 7334 (elite)) university for a business degree -- business is my thing.

Anyhew, fresh out of home-schooling and I left beautiful Colorado for flat, and always warm, Texas for a whole new life, all in the merry month of August.

Sooooo, game playing, blogging, other hobbies, brushing of the teeth, all fell by the wayside as I did not have time with my new schedule. However, I have gotten comfortable into the swing of things with my new life, and am back to gaming and having fun with my friends on Wizard101, which allows me to interact with my pals who are a long ways away from me now.

Thanks Wizard101.

P.S. - boy, am I waaaaay behind. My e-mail is jam packed with material sent to me by my friends over the past few months.