Left alone, the board pays 0.86×. You have to steer. Steering means nudging the ball, and every nudge adds 32 to a tilt meter that decays at 8 a second and never resets between balls. At 100 the machine takes the ball and your heat with it. Three nudges is the ceiling and leaves you in the high eighties whatever your timing. A fourth crosses 100 every way you can space it, so the 25× slot sits one nudge past the line.
Measured over 60,000 balls: an untouched board returns 0.85× and finds a 25× twice in a thousand. Three nudges returns 4.13× and finds one about once in ten. A ball falls in 2.6 seconds.
Heat rises a step on any win of 1.5× or better, up to 3.00×. A 0.3× drops it a step. A tilt takes it to the floor.
Tilt carries between balls. A three-nudge ball leaves you near 88, still bleeding off at 8 a second. Drop again immediately and you have no room to nudge at all for about another second and a half.
Credits arrive free every 25 seconds up to a bank of three. Minting a cabinet adds twelve and puts a different board under you.
Controls. Space drops. Arrow keys or A and D nudge. Tapping either half of the screen nudges that way.