The best strategy for Cherry Blossom level 1-2 is to lob the first Yellow bird, speeding downward through the pink flower between the two towers. This shot is more skill than luck, so keep trying if you don’t get it the first time. Triggering the TNT at the bottom of the level should yield a one-bird clear.
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.
101,230 using that method, 1 bird towards flower in between the 2 towers… I’m sure someone can get a better score…
101550 – First bird up high, angle to skim right side of first roof. It will go down into TNT and take out everything. Two birds left.
nice onebirder! but only one out of five made enough damage for 3 stars (at least for me)
Is that a piece of sushi on the lower left side of the stone?
Yup
No, it is called omusubi or onigiri. Rice ball with ume (Japanese pickled plum) filling, very frequently pressed in the form of a triangle, as it is economically shaped to fill in the space in a lunch box.
This level is impossible! I have been trying for HOURS! So frustrated! That being said, love the challenge of these levels!
As soon as I posted my first comment, I finally got it. 102,040 with one bird :)
I’m still feeling that frustration. Must admit that I’m disappointed that this seems to be the only way to get 3 stars in this level… Normally I love this game because there are several equally clever ways to solve the puzzles, but this level totally stinks! >:[
104,440. Got the first bird between the towers by aiming almost straight up and firing as soon as releasing the slingshot.
I think it’s sushi by the stone, but destroying it does not give any reward, just more points.
I have killed that sushi 100 times. Wish I could kill the level! Stuck at 95k and 2 birds. :-(
It took awhile but sending the first bird straight down through the flower and into the tnt did the trick for 106k.
Only 99300 with one bird thru two strucures down thru flower, like others but I’ll have to come back for a better score on this one…this was a tough one for me, couldn’t get the angle right?
Me too gotta come back…I see othe scores that make me want to try harder lol
.even tho I tried as hard as I could:( gl let me know when you come back..
I’m back..I have this and 3 others that need improvement ;-)
Finally 102420 which is slightly above average, that’s good enough for me!
That’s the way to go about it :D
Same method 102980, after many tries
108730 same as video. Played it a couple hours ago, came home, entered scores and lo and behold I’m #1. Let’s see how long I stay there.
I seriously doubt I would have gotten this one without the video:). I knew I was doing something wrong because I could get the left side to fall by hitting the little wood block on the bottom of the top tower, but then I had nothing for the second bird to do. I never thought of sending the bird down the middle. Thanks for all of the help. Now, to improve my score!
Followed the video and crushed it with 1 bird after many tries.
Thanks.
112,130 points.
Does anyone know why my birds act like they are in slow motion, or stop and go while in flight?? This happens on my DROID.
Holy bejeezus – I just scored 115,440, 100% legitimately, but certainly 100% unexpectedly. I wish I could explain exactly what happened, but here’s my best effort: using the usual strategy of firing the bird through the narrow gap and into the TNT, it met some obstruction on the way and settled on top of the TNT without detonating it. Instead, the round stone from the top of the left tower came bouncing down and set off the TNT with quite a bit more force and more collateral. The key part, and the part for which I really wish I could remember the sequence of events that caused it, was that the house on the top fell LEFT, not right, and obliterated the debris from the lower left structure. The board certainly wasn’t wiped clean, but there were obviously many fewer blocks than usual left over.
Thinking about it more, my best guess as to what happened is that when the TNT exploded, one of the stones was launched in such a way that it glanced off another object and hit the wood block holding up the left side of the top structure. But I think the string attaching the boulder to the right side of the structure somehow broke, too… really, I’m at a loss.
Nice shooting!!!
I am pretty sure I know what happened as I have had some close calls in trying to repeat what you did. Using the same strategy as the video, I arc the y/b up and wait until the last possible second to accelerate. This often times causes him to break through all the center wood but NOT set off the TNT, instead the left structure collapses and the small stone ball sets off the TNT just like you described. The ball doesn’t hit the wood block, but I it sometimes hits the corner of the small triangular stone block at the bottom left of that top structure. I’ve done it a few times and it’s cracked the stone so I think a perfect shot would be what you likely did, shattered the triangular block and brought the whole top structure down to the left on top of all the other debris for the epic score. I think I will eventually be able to do it but haven’t got it yet!
Thanks for the investigative work. I definitely remember the left structure collapsing before the TNT went off, so I think what you described is the most likely possibility. It’s clearly a rare occurrence, because there are still only three 111k+ scores on the leaderboard.
Incidentally, although there’s no easy way to take a screenshot on an Android phone, I did take a picture of the screen after I finished the level so that at least a little bit of the destruction would be visible (I know it’s not much, but it was the best I could do under the circumstances):
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4710/angrybirdsi.jpg
Well I still haven’t been able to re-create your one shot score but I did improve my score by ~3K using a two shot method! First shot is identical to the one shot method, but as the structures are all falling I fire the second y/b into the wooden block holding up what is remaining of the top structure. In one case the stone plank landed on the y/b and he did a roll to the left which brought him the plank and both stone triangles down on the debris below resulting in a ~108K score.
Thank you for this strategy to use two birds @goavs4! I wasn’t able to get above 102K with the one-birder shot, so I decided to try your method of using the second yellow bird, hitting the wood block. The cement plank and both triangles fell on the debris on the bottom, which yielded an extra 4K!
My score’s not as high as yours, but certainly much more than I had before! Having the right top fall to the left is definitely beneficial to scores.
Well I’m still hanging onto my top score, but you’re correct – the key to getting over 110 seems to be making the top house fall left. I can’t remember what I did to get it, but keep playing around everybody, there were still a few blocks left when I beat it and pretty sure that 120 is highly possible
Finally got above average (again) at 105800. First shot was direct hit on TNT, but for some reason had more damage than usual. I’ve been trying @AustinRHL‘s suggestion not to make a direct hit, but … BTW, I haven’t seen a 2-bird strat improve the score, but just noticed that you need to fire second bird while structures are falling, so maybe that would do the trick.
At Chrome, this level’s 3 star score is 92,000.
Okay…alternate strat: 104k+ points… More points possible, I’m sure.
1 bird, moonshot.
First note the largest boulder. It is on a triangle wooden block. The right side of that triangle wood is exposed. It’s also right above the TNT *wink*.
So bird one: shoot almost straight up and accelerate. It may take a bunch of tries, but so does the other method everyone uses. I find the moonshot is eAsier to get right than getting old yeller to accelerate down into the TNT.
You want the bird to land on the wooden triange, just to the right of the boulder (there is some play here because you can miss the triangle and still get the TNT). So you’ve managed to shoot the yellow bird up and over the mountain, it should go through the wood to the right of the largest boulder… This sets off the rightmost TNT, destroys triangle wood, and causes boulder to roll… Pullin the right side of the top structure with it… Since it can continue to roll (because the TNT cleared the wood on the mountainside), the chain breaks, making the left side of the top tower fall left… As this is happening, the boulder has fallen into the cavern and sets off the leftmost TNT *from below!!!*, causing an explosion that blows everything up and to the left. Because of the angular way this level is constructed, this makes the debris easier to destroy.
It’s not an easy shot, but neither is the standard way, either… And this one got me many many more points.
Thats pretty much how I got my score. Not sure what other damahe I cause…I was so frustrated I just kept flinging yb and not really paying attention to aftermath! Ty for the really good description:)
The moonshot did not work for me, after trying over a dozen times. Even though the boulder set off the right TNT and broke through the wood plank under it, the boulder was stopped by the plank that supports the left TNT box. There wasn’t enough momentum/energy from the boulder to break that plank and continue rolling towards the TNT.
It’s an accepted norm that the difference between 2 and 3 stars is 10% of the total needed for 3, right? Because this one is the first one I’ve seen that differs from that. Scoring an 83.000 gets 2 stars meaning that 91 or 92.000 should get 3, but on this level it takes 95.000. Wonder if this is a gaffe or not?
Never been aware of such a percentage change.
102750 one bird between the towers
I got the one bird clear but used a second bird for clean-up to get to 103260. I didn’t try the “moonshot” yet since I’ve been going nuts trying to get the angle just right to fire the yellow bird down that chute.
It isn’t the angle so much as the timing of when to accelerate the yellow bird. At least that’s how it worked out for me.
105370. Very tough but fun. Cant see what all the other levels r like (:
Using video method and after about 100 tries, I finally managed to raise my score just a little over average, which is better than what I had.
I’m still working on getting the YB down in the right place but I’m curious about the scores. My high score says 98,430 but I’m only at two stars. Is there something different on Chrome? It’s a big puzzle to me and frustrating as I can’t get the YB anywhere near where he’s supposed to be.
Like video, as all have said before, if the top tower falls left instead if right, high score.
Tried this one all afternoon, to no avail, came back this evening, first shot, 114k
Keep trying, fellow flingers
My score is well below the average here, but still 3 stars. I’ve tried both methods suggested here, to no avail; I can’t get a 1 birder or higher score. And I’m okay with that, at least for now. This level is frustrating, demanding, and not that enjoyable, to me.
Much like the video on top, but scores vary quite a bit. I lost the video of my score :( I tried to make a new one, hoping it would give me a couple of points increase, but I gave up after a gazillion shots. The best I could do was 108k. But I am sure I used the same strat back when I got my score of 112k.
Here is the video of the 108k.
No Luck here!! Been trying this level on/off for a few hours, and just cannot get the yellow bird down through the flower to TNT!! Wonder how many attempts Slim made, before getting the right angle!! Going to try again tomorrow. Did get it earlier, but not since!!
@amslimfordy
8/16/14 Challenge is listed as Angry Birds Rio Rocket Rumble Level 13 but average and high scores and link is to Angry Birds Seasons Cherry Blossom Level 1-2. I presume we play and list our scores for that?
@uncle-b, I saw that last night too, so I just closed down and went to sleep. I figured it would be adjusted one way or the other by this morning – and it was. This is a tough level in Cherry Blossom. I was over average but now under average so I’m playing to at least get over 102k (knocking on wood). ;-)
Update! @uncle-b. I finally got 103k. Then got a better lucky strike and the top tower fell to the left. Got 113k! So that my feather friends is definitely the key to higher points.
Great Score @GypsyBird ~ Perseverance does pay off !!! Well on occasion anyway ~ I’ve been flinging YB#1 at this level since I scoring my +106K within the first couple of tosses after the Challenge first started last night. Haven’t been able to better it since. It seems that many times my best scores will occur very early in a Challenge and it’s “downhill” from there ~ makes me wonder if others have noticed that occurance?
@uncle-b – I’m pretty sure that was a lucky thing for me. Mostly the top structure falls to the right. I watched went it fell left this time and it does cause a lot more destruction of the lower structure debris. Just hard to force it to fall left on purpose – no matter how YB gets in there it seems to be the lower group tipping to the right that will catch the wood or something on the top part to cause it to tip left.
This is certainly a challenging Challenge. I’ve managed to improve almost 2k from Android phone’s 105400 to iPad’s 107290. For me at least, I’m noticing that if the debris on the left side slowly crumbles, I had a better chance of ever-so-slightly improving my score. Somewhere in all of these comments I remember reading that boosting YB as late as possible was beneficial, so that’s what I’m trying. GL all
THANK YOU!! I have been trying to get this with no luck. Great strategy!