Our strategy for Mighty Hoax level 4-5 is to fire the Red bird into the first stone block. Not much damage will result, but you should pop the first pig. Shoot the Blue bird through the top of the ice blocks, thereby taking out most of the left side. Use the Yellow bird to level most of the structure, then place the Black bird in the right side of the main tower. The explosion should clear all remaining pigs. The score in the video below is 93,310.
If you have a different strategy feel free to leave a comment below; however, don't just post your score via the comments, as that's what the leaderboards are for.
You can also overshoot the entire building with the first bird, taking out the rightmost one. The tower building collapses easily without weakening it, but making the explosion from the last bird take out the rightmost pig can be a bit troublesome.
Agreed. This method got a much higher score for me.
I used a different methode:
first bird goes half way into the second ice tower, second bird clears the rest of the ice, making way for the third bird to go at the base of the tower. The whole structure collapses. In my case one pig remains. The last bird goes to the right of the remaining pig, this way the right ice structure also falls down. I got 103330 with this methode.
Here’s the video
I got 101290 with this method. It worked just as stated, although I would have liked to get more ice breakage.
E-star, thank you again, your method worked so well! Thanks for writing also, sometimes I cannot open videos, just happened, it’s not you, it’s my phone. Thanks :)
^_^ I pretty much used the same strat before looking here.(I try for 3 stars before I look at strats) I just can’t get as much damage as you for some reason.
@e-star Thank you for the video. Again grasshopper learns from the master. Increased the score by 10k.
I improved my score here by almost 10K.
Thanks, @estar, once again.
The key to the highest scores here is to get as much glass as possible. With the BB, shooting closer to the glass will break as much of it as possible, and it should easily get that last pot from the wood structure.
Suggestions for a really high score (my 107K is currently #2 on the leaderboard): First (red) bird similar to E-star’s video and second (blue) bird divides into 3 to clear all (not most) of the glass blocks. Total score after these two birds should be at least 17K, preferably 18K. 17K is repeatable once in about 10 tries, 18K is difficult but possible, perhaps once in 100 tries. Restart unless at least 17K. Third (yellow) bird is the most difficult. It must collapse the entire wooden tower, but also slide to the right the adjacent 4 glass blocks next to the pig (unexploded) and slide this pig to the right next to the (far right) 8 glass blocks – look carefully at E-star’s video to see how the wooden tower pushes the glass blocks and remaining pig (except that in e-star’s video the pig explodes). Without a full slide and no explosion of the pig (that is, no space between 4 glass blocks, the pig, and the 8 glass blocks – or explosion of the pig as done by E-star), the last shot will not work properly. Total score after this should be at least 77K (I got more than 80K) – note that this is without exploding the pig in between, as well as without exploding the other pig that remains in e-star’s video. Fourth (black) bird should drop into the V created by the remnants of the wooden tower so that it rolls down to the bottom of the V and then explodes (I used a higher arc than E-star). This will destroy most if not all of the remaining wood, the pig under the wood V, and (because there is no space in between) almost all if not all of the 12 remaining glass blocks and the pig in between. I suggest practicing the third and fourth shots on failed attempts at shots 1 and 2, so that when you are successful at shots 1 and 2 you have a better chance of succeeding on these last two shots. I believe that about 110K is possible with all 4 shots perfect (current high score 108K).
Great strat, @e-star. @doctonynyc is right. Those glasses are the key for higher scores. Make sure at least the ones on the left side is completely destroyed. It’s totally a different story with the right ones though as there lies the L-factor. This level’s counter tends to start earlier than most of the other levels’ even when some objects are still moving. This is difficult as we need to use all the birds with @e-star‘s method… :)
Thanks again @e-star! Upped my score by 5k, high enough to make me happy!
I believe I missed a lot of your comments @all above, thanks for the thanks :D glad everyone of you did great, keep on flinging!
Yup, @e-star did it again! As others mentioned I think the key is how much of the ice gets cleared, and like @caviar-101 said yellow bird has to take the wood structure down completely and continue sliding to the right, pushing the ice blocks over, taking out the pig on the right. All that remained was the lower middle right pig and a well placed bomb bird took out the rest of the wood and caused the ice blocks on the far right to collapse. Thank you all for your tips!
with the cursor just under the yellow spot on BB’s antena, hit the front of the 2nd brick on top.[rptable] the red bird will, at least, bounce, take out the far pig, at most it comes dang near close, LOTS of damage,, [rarely] to a 1 birder. < fingers crossed somebody will. the blue bird wipes out the ice and the closest pig, if not, reset. Now, I did get the yellow bird to take out the hard hat pigs, but I had missed the closest pig, [the brick did] so I used up the bomb to get the 3 stars with a lowly 93,4 K
ok, did it in 3 birds, but used that strong slingshot gift with the yellow bird, it CAN be done in 3 without the xtra but it’s 1 AM
I got my score- 108240- by mostly following E-star’s method. Bounced red bird off left ice blocks into taller ice block tower.Used split blue bird to take out remaining ice blocks.Aimed yellow bird just under lowest horizontal wood plank in left wood tower.Dropped black bird into V-shape left next to helmet pig on the right side.
This level has potential to get really high scores following @e-star‘s video. I don’t think I will play for eventually higher scor as I really like this round one 100k.
@e-star thanks a lot.
@cosmo2503 great shooting and nice score a round one 100k!! And you are welcome… glad to help out anytime!