The best strategy for Ham’o'ween level 2-4 is to lob the Orange bird into the left side of the center structure. Its expansion should topple the left tower and cause significant damage to the main structure. Use the Yellow birds as necessary to finish the level. The score in the video below is 103,250.
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.
High score strat: first shot is similar to the video but has to be land a bit further to the left. The result is that the bird doesn’t break the long thin horizontal wooden block that is the first block to break in the movie but it hits the long thin vertical block (the other block that makes up the corner of the structure) instead. The orange bird will break through this block, hit the ground and then bounce into the air a bit. The advantage now, once you mange to get this rather precise shot, is that you can choose what to do. If you activate the bird at the its peak height (after the bounce) you will find that the bird is much further to the right and will cause devastating damage to the right-hand structure (best attempts at this resulted in 72K, which was reasonably repeatable). If you activate the bird early then it will squeeze out to the left more and knock over the left structure but will cause less damage to the larger right-hand structure. Either way it is a trade off. I tried both methods ~500 times each and the best 1 birds attempts were around the 105K mark. My highest scores, in the realm of 107.5K, came from using the yellow bird to clean up what was left. I believe that if you got really lucky you could score in the realms of 115K but it would take a lot of attempts and thus a lot of time to pull off.
—–Streamlined Version—–
Bird 1: High arc shot that passes just to the right of the highest wooden triangle of the left structure, breaks through the lower left “leg” of the right structure, bounces, and is activated either directly after this or at the height of the bouncing movement. If it is activate low the bird does more damage to the left hand tower and some to the right structure. If it is activated late it can completely destroy the right structure but rarely damages the left.
Bird 2: contextual. Use it to clean up whatever debris and pig(s) is/are left.
Bird 3: 10K points.
*It is possible to 1 bird this level. The hard part about a 1 bird solution, however, is getting to a similar level of destruction to justify the time spent on attempting it.
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I got 105090 with one bird. Not sure really how I did it. I just fire the orange blowbird at a steep angle and landed in the middle of the larger structure on the right. When he inflated it caused a lot of collateral damage and then some blocks on the far right end slowly tipped over on to the black exploding pumpkin and took out the rest.
2-4, 107400 w/1 shot – Launched the orange bird on a high arch towards the second gap, aiming for the exposed beam to right of the top most pig. Break the beam and allow the o/b to drop and detonate.. Maybe you’ll have more luck with your collateral damage, I hope so! Good luck! thx
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The potential is there to be seen in this, “Collector’s Action Series” of photos. Reminds me of some of the self exploding Christmas bonnets from “Season’s Greedings” before ROVIO de-bugged the best AB episode ever, man that was fun! Must show them off one day..
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another pearl from Marc :-) well done managed 114310 in about 10 minutes, with a couple of 110k ones in between
111K in 5 minutes work. That there is the test of a bloody good strat :)
2-4, 109460 w/1 shot – Same strat, highly recommended to all that share in return. :-) Thanks in advance, Marc
2-4, 110070 w/1 shot – Same strat. Its dinner time in France, here comes the Rosé! Must stop soon, good night and have fun “shooters”, especially you “natureswrath”..
2-4, 111620 – w/1 shot – STOP!!.. But how do you stop when totally addicted ? “Darling, dinner’s ready”. That’s how you stop.. bye shooters!
From 108k to 109470 with … tadaaa .. 3rd try ;-). thx buddy !
110270 .. let’s see where this ends … =)
Gregor, to aim for, I have 112610 using this same strat, can still be more! @Marc, I’m running out of new strats to share for our daily threads with you knocking them out of the park =)
well .. 113280. Really addictive …
That’s the last time I invite you creeps for dinner! Nice shooting Gregor! At least you don’t have to describe your strat on 2-4. Now lets see what’s for dessert, see you guys tomorrow. Too funny..
Wow! This is an amazing strategy, @marc987. I drove myself nuts just trying to get above the average the last time I played this level, using the more obvious shoot-into-the-first-gap strategy, and told myself I’d never return. But then I later stumbled upon your comment here, and it took me about three minutes to beat my old score and fewer than ten minutes to reach 113k. Thank you!
I agree with those who have commented how quickly they achieved a high score using this method. I discovered it accidently and prior to visiting this walkthrough. (I always try to 3 star a level and get as high a score as possible before seeking help.) I got 110,530 so quickly I thought I’d come and see how others were achieving their scores and found they were using the same method.
When I said accidently, it was one of those miss shots – you know when you try to land it elsewhere and miss but end up doing a 1 birder with some amazing destruction. I can’t believe how low the Average is considering how easy this level is. Obviously not everyone makes mistakes like me or visits these wonderful walkthroughs. :)
117690
Crazy I just randomly picked this level to try and pick up some higher scores to catch the overall leaders. First bird i flung went up and down into the middle and it blew through everything. I went to update my score and I’m top by 2000 points. Seems incredible that I get a top score with my first go but I ain’t complaining…