Merry Christmas to all and to all a hognight
We made it! This is the 25th and final level of this year’s 2016 Advent episode of Seasons. We hope you enjoyed the daily progress as much as we did.
All I want for Christmas is points, points, points! It’s 3 and out for this one, and nearly 300K at 293480. Our strategy for Ragnahog level 25 is shown in the video below.
We first send red low, below horizontal and into the flag. Not much happens at first, but the stones should start bouncing around on the pink pad and lead to the demise of the entire first structure. Next, send Stella in a low arc to the blue stone just under the rocks and TNT, lifting without blowing, to land atop the farthest roof. Watching the chain reaction is sweeter than visions of sugar plums! Finish up with a simple shot – Matilda bombs the middle of the remaining structure, kills the pig, and racks up a ton of points!
Make sure you check out the walkthroughs for the Golden Eggs and Giant Hammer and we’ll see you in the new year!
Merry Christmas everyone
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and I shall see you all again next 1 December for more festive flinging ?????
Merry Christmas everybody!
@fatboyslick Great seeing you back again for the advent:)
Hope to see you again next year, Merry Christmas ?
You will my love, have a good 2017
aww Crap I wish i drive read the walkthrough now! 2018 Who could’ve guess that 2 years later we’d Never see @fatboyslick again, that this would be the final Merry Christmas, and n notice we all have a ? when we said Merry Christmas 2 years ago 😕
I still have the app installed in the faint hope we get an update….. last Christmas was very sad not having new levels and I can’t believe we are now approaching another Christmas…it would be this time I would be checking the news feed for info on the Christmas levels
Merry Christmas to all…. ??
Merry Xmas and thanks to @bernersenn for your written walkthroughs. You put a lot of thought into making them different and amusing. Hope to read comments from you all in 2017 and thanks for all the help this year.
@fatcat3684 thanks. But it would be too much honors to me. It is @knichy who wrotes the write-ups. We have to thank him, because it really improves the Walkthroughs pages. I’m the guy who simply copied his write-ups into this pages.
Merry Christmas to all.
Well, thanks to both of you for your time and humor with the walk throughs. It was greatly appreciated.
Happy Christmas, fellow flingers ??????
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas???to all flingers
I sent red just over first roof, hitting the second and rolling down to the TNT. Stella the same way, lifting the boulder and setting off the stowes. Mathilda down through where the three was, to bottom left of left construction.
Lots of attempts, and finally lucky to score 305k.
Marry Christmas and Happy New year everyone!
What I’ve found is both your strat and the video are largely luck driven
Just how I’ve been doing it @gladvoid. And one time nearly had two birder but that last pillar to left of xmas tree just bobbed up and down but didn’t break. I think if it had would have been 310.
Merry Christmas fellow flingers!
Oops, @gladvold
@gladvold Thank you for posting. Was able to get above average with your strategy. Seemed a low arc over the first roof work best for destruction and lifting.
Merry Christmas to all Nesters!!
Merry Christmas to all.
And some thoughts about the current edition versus the previous ones:
1 birders: 6 (vs 6 in 2015, 3 in 2014, 16 in 2013)
2 birders: 6 (vs 11 in 2015, 14 in 2014, 7 in 2013)
3+ borders: 13 (vs 8 in 2015, 8 in 2014, 2 in 2013)
Maybe a trend here, less one birders, more strategy ;-)
On the fun side, I am thinking 8/10 (the last levels are helping here).
And on the wish list for next year:
1. Potions. I would love to see them in ABS
2. Portals. I know you can do that
3. No unseen depths. I like to know what is going on down there
4. More non obvious strategies
5. And for @rat9, some gravity variations, not like Space, but Moon like can be fun too ;-)
So all around thanks Rovio for giving this to all for free.
Lol I like your wishes for the next year @asher ?
Merry Christmas!!
And Merry Christmas to all fellow flingers ?? from sunny Florida ?
Yay! I’m late to “This” Christmas party, but @Kathy is in Sunny Florida SO…looking forward to meeting up with you at the poolside bar!!! Yippee!!!!
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas with a Happy New Year to follow!
Ps…Pardon my tardiness; However…I am the “sucker” (haha)who host the “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” type family gathering…for those of you that know it…Here are a few of my favorite and oh so fitting lines from the movie:
Ellen: “Clark, I think it’d be best if everyone went home… before things get worse.”
Clark: “WORSE? How could things get any worse? Take a look around here, Ellen. We’re at the threshold of hell.”
Ellen: “I don’t know what to say, except it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.” Tee Hee :D
And the Best for last, Clark: “Our holidays were always such a mess.
Clark Sr.: Oh, yeah.
Clark: How’d you get through it?
Clark Sr.: I had a lot of help from Jack Daniels”
Tee Hee Hee Hee! Ok…sorry…no strat yet…I’m just getting started :D
@leslyg ? better late than not at all!! Nice to see you joining in
I can’t even get 3 stars here:(
Would love some breadcrumbs tee-hee, or you can show me on person when we meet? while we sit by the poolside and sip a few goodies:) looking guests to it!! Totally the highlight of my trip!!
Using @gladvoid’s method of sending Red to the second roof, I got a chain reaction going that took out everything apart from the right hand pig in the first structure. Stella straight to him finished the level with 308410.
I think a 1 birder is possible if that final pig gets taken out by the chain reaction.
Merry Christmas to all.
Christmas Day strategy for Ragnahog:
1 have a drink
2 Fire the bird
3 Have another drink
4 Have a look at the results of the first shot
5 Have another drink
6 sleep off the first 3 drinks
7 have another drink
8 fire bird two
Etc., etc. Repeat ad infinitum and come back tomorrow to try again
Merry Christmas to one and all??
Hee hee @Tiffin thanks for the strat?
Merry Christmas ?
h @kathy and Merry Christmas to you too. ?
Thanks @tiffin
Rovio christmas present is this being the final level in this wretched episode ?
@tiffin lol I followed your strategy and now my head hurts LOL. Just kidding I am just starting now, but it seems I have been flinging just as the gladvold strategy. I once got the whole left to collapse with the first shot. then flubbed up the second shot. ( typical )
@gumby in think I overlooked my own strategy a little yesterday too. When I found I was flinging the birds to the left rather than right and wondering why I was getting no points I called it a day??
Because I’m that terribly stubborn, I tried that 1st shot from the video for 45 minutes straight. Not once did the tnt go off. Once in a while I got big blue, but no big boom. Finally came to my senses, and so as not to spoil Christmas (my wife woke up), I made up my own strategy just to get the 3 stars.
Just revisiting the leaderboards to see how my rank over the years:
2016 Ragnahog: 16 / 192
2015 Ski or squeal: 132 / 367
2014 On Finn Ice: 106 / 535
2013 Arctic Eggs: 267 / 877
2012 Winter Wonderham: 85 / 1287
2011 Wreck the Halls: 353 / 1726
2010 Seasons Greedings: 394 / 2074
Interesting to see participants who record their scores has got worse and worse each year (sadly)
And 2011 was an interesting year….can everyone remember the glitches level 23 where some peeps have recorded scores with over 100,000 more than others as they got it before Rovio fixed the glitch. The comments section flared up haha
Hey @fatboyslick , hmm you probably won’t see this until next year lol
But yes it’s sad that there are fewer and fewer members entering scores as the years go by ?
Have a very Happy New Year , may you be blessed with all your new year wishes come true!
See you next year I hope and I know many others feel the same ?
I have alerts for replies ??
Yes I guess Angry Birds’ prime is over, no new players, let alone for the lesser-known Seasons app.
My only New Year wish is that Rovio continue to support us remaining players. I’m sure it only needs one developer on it these days
Merry Christmas fellow nesters, and many more flinging’s in 2017!
@sweetp, Score of 310,800 for a puppy using 3 birds. Basically followed @gladvold strat. First bird over the first structure and into the roof to the right one, rolled back and hit tnt. 2nd bird to finish up the far right side. The stones from the first shot almost took out the left structure. There was 1 stick holding up the one last bird. Matilda down do drop egg on debris and not a carcass to ricochet into the remaining wood. 2 bird bonus.
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/sparty83/album/picture/21759/
(there are some good flingers that have not posted yet so I don’t expect to keep the high score for long but good enough for a puppy.
@sparty83 Sorry to inform you that no puppies are awarded for the advent challenges unfortunately.
Thanks @gumby, I wasn’t sure if they were or not but I figured it couldn’t hurt. And for about 2 hours I did have a high score so I figured I should post the strat used.
(cc: @stocktoad)
@sparty83 thats a really good score even if it isn’t top score anymore. Most of this advent the levels come down to luck, Rinse and Repeat like 10,000 times. Unless you have a comfy chair, 10 foot wide monitor screen and a super duper mouse. sorry @asher I couldn’t resist.
@gumby: I know, I know ;-)
I guess I owe that to @rat9 relentless advertising.
I will have to find a way to send him the bill someday.
@asher are you going to enter that 25th score so we can all see how far off we are from top scorer in the episode?
@gumby: I will
I have to write a small walkthrough for it though ;-)
😂 @Habanero I don’t know how I missed that comment!
“a more’Rustic Flinger’ HeeeHee 😉
and thanks to both you and @asher and to all who posted! i finally managed to get a halfway decent score, still needs work but I’ll take it for now!
@gumby – a more rustic flinger has just nicked back that Level 25 trophy… for a little while at least ?
@habanero: congrats on the trophy ;-)
How did you do it?
@asher – pretty much the same sequence as you described, but just a basic flat shot with red into flagpole instead of soft steep arc from above … Stella to hit red shield and roll right, so TNT tipped over and blows low… again, middle pig was sitting in a small cushion of wooden triangles… first two shots had great clearance so expected a surefire Matilda failure… dropped bomb slightly to left of the middle pig, into triangles, instead of on the pig, taking risk that the desired avalanche may not happen… but it did… now can I keep the trophy for at least 24hrs ?
Did have a great 2-birder with red to far TNT via far roof slope, taking care of right nicely but with one steel ball also flying off to put left hand steel balls into play and collapsing left hand snow supports…then Stella down to lift the exposed TNT up cleared 90% of level, inc that middle pig, but level timed out with Matilda aimed at debris… so the 2-birder was a low-ish 295k
315610 with 3 birds.
So, in order to limit the randomness of this level, I have tried the following variations on the video strategy.
First Red in a very high arc at a slightly reduced speed so that he comes down on the plank. Here is the trajectory just before hitting the plank.
Then Stella to the left of the TNT to lift it, but the important thing is not to lift it to the top of the roof, just midway.
To do that aim to the top right side of the shield and activate just when you break it.
At this point you can have a two birder. In my case the middle pig was still alive, so Matilda in a high arc to finish it.
Here is the final result.
And the highscore screenshot.
And on my Christmas wish list I can add: please find Tony another job. The poor guy is just an underpowered Terence that is making a appearance once a year for nothing. His power has never been useful once :-/
@lesleyg ? better late than not at all!! Nice to see you joining in
I can’t even get 3 stars here:(
Would love some breadcrumbs tee-hee, or you can show me on person when we meet? while we sit by the poolside and sip a few goodies:) looking guests to it!! Totally the highlight of my trip!
@asher congratulations on the great score, thanks for the strat and screenshots:)
I’m on vacation and haven’t had much flinging time , :(
When you say ‘reduced ‘ with red, how reduced? Like halfway up the sling out less? I keep landing on either the blue sheild or the rocks atop the TNT ,I haven’t even got 3 stars yet :( help?
@kathy: in this case the speed is reduced because it’s so vertical that Red is creeping up the sling a little.
Here is a screenshot with the normal sling length, and here is one with Red as it should be sent.
I have been lobbing first red at the lower left ball bearing on the TNT on the floating rocks. This directs the explosion & ball bearings toward the right-side roof. Sometimes you’ll get full destruction of the right side. If you get really lucky, one ball bearing might fly left and start the left side collapsing. Almost managed a one-birder this way.
https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/samsonkj/album/picture/21766/
Re:advent challenge main score board. Can’t figure out how positions #8 and #9 (1 position hogged up by same player?) Sparty and sparty_2 appear to have identical scores. @admins @sweetp
That is a bit odd @ixan57. I noticed their ranks shown on the Challenge leaderboard are both different from their Profile page where their ranks and badges are identical. So there must be some sort of relationship. I bet @sparty83 (a Certified Nester) will be happy to explain.
Interesting @ixan57 actually i haven’t heard from @sparty83 for quite some time but i know he’s still active. I’m guessing something happened such as happened to @mvnla2 where she had to add the ‘2’ surely it’s the same Sparty we all know and love 🐣
@ixan57, and @kathy
Yes, the Sparty83 and Sparty83_2 are both my scores. I lost all my Seasons scores awhile back. I am in the process of replaying them and moving my orig scores over to my Sparty83_2 account. (doing this so I can compare my new scores to my orig scores) I haven’t put in my new scores yet for all the levels so there are plenty where my old scores show up in both accounts.
( i did ask the @admins awhile back if they could bulk move them for me so I didnt have to manually enter them all)
Thanks @sparty83 I figured something had happened , what a pita losing progress as i well know.. that’s a good idea though for comparison sake.
Maybe @Sweetp could look into bulk moving them for you?
I am not sure if this a new strategy or not so I am not marking it as one.
First bird over to second roof rolling back to hit tnt. One of the stones goes up and over the right roof igniting the other tnt and demolishing the right side. Looks like this Damage after first bird
Second bird into the flag and pulling up the roof and debris blowing up most of the left side.
Damage after 2nd bird
Then Matilda down low richetting into the remaining pig. Hope this helps. Sorry I can’t make videos.
@gumby did you mark toss as a new strat ? it doesn’t seem to be blue on my phone..
@kathy no I didn’t because I am not sure if it was a new strategy. Too tired to read this whole page.
Not new but we’ll explained with pix @gumby by Gum!
Woooot!!! Actually more like woot! with shame iI say I finally got above average, not by much, but thanks to @asher @Gummby @ gladvold for all your strats and screenshots, but I just Couldn’t get it, finally used my old pal @kimmieCV strat ( not posted here) but i just Flung like a Madwoman!! 😂
still gotta work on the points thing, but hey PiP iI always say! 😉😎
@gumby @gladvold sorry bout that mess up! 😮
Hey @kathy struggling a bit with this one, can you teach me to fling like a mad woman?I know you’ve had a lot of practice.
@sweetp @karen68 @hunnybunny. The 3 amigos, hope you’re all in fine fettle. Have made top 20 on all levels was hoping for a sharpshooter badge. Have logged my highest score screenshot in my album 1-25.For some reason I labelled them Hamnarok! Think that’s better than Ragnahog IMHO. Old age my friends.
Congratulations @briann! Sharpshooter Badge comin’ your way! 😀
cc: @karen68
Thanks guys. Have to try for the ultra now. Probably not in Seasons, my name’s not Asher!
310170/2
Red to the roof on the right to roll down and take out the TNT. Lucky bounces and debris falling cleared all but the pig above the lantern next to the rock. Stella took him out.