Beware of trap doors in Angry Birds Surf and Turf level 44. The first shot should be a Yellow bird through the gap in the middle of the level and into the TNT on the right side. Then lob a Blue bird through the ice blocks in the higher structure, detonating the TNT. Note that debris from the explosion causes the trap door to block the gap to the right side, making the order of shots critical. Use the two remaining Yellow birds to detonate TNT as needed. The score in the video below is 116,680 but the third shot was a bust.
Version 2022:
110k is 3 stars
Thanks Todd. I had 109k is 2* so this one is confirmed!
So I’m just 250 away!!!!! More frustrating
Currently #2, lucky 2 birder, 1st like the video, second in high arch, hitting the ice on the high structure, which fell down in both directions and knocked down the lower structure….
136440 – no PU ( video ).
@yuriyigolkin – a perfect couple of shots! Great flinging!
Thanks @yuriyigolkin! Tried to follow your strat, but never got the second shot quite right. Used all 4 birds, and at least got 3*.
@mvnla2 Second shot is just luck. It’s hard to repeat.
@yuriyigolkin beautiful flinging! That 2nd shot was amazing, it’s nice to see it can actually be done. I can’t remember the last time I had to check the walkthroughs just to clear a level but this one was giving me so much grief. I was approaching it the right way, just having no luck with the 2nd shot. In the end I used all 4 birds, the falling debris from the top did virtually no damage below so I needed the last 2 yellows to clear everything. At least I got 3 stars the first time I cleared it.
Wow. I’m still having no luck getting above the average. At least this video (and the original) gives me hope that it can be done.
That is an awesome second shot. Very nicely done! Congrats @yuriyigolkin
@ohforfive Thanks!
Thanks @yuriyigolkin for the video. Was able to get 2 birds to destroy all but the score was a bit lower. Still without your video it is hard to image it being completed. The debris fall seems to be the key with the little stone block at the top setting off the tnt after a few other items soften the wood plank around the tnt. Found that if the Blue Bird pushes the stone block (one right of the round stone) to the right, activation occurs consistently.
Ty @yuriyigolkin for the strat it took a while i used 4 Birdies but got above average..:)
Wow!!! Amazing 2nd shot @yuriyigolkin!! Gives me hope that I might at Some point raise my score to better heights!! Hey one can dream right!! ;) Thank you for that very dreamy video of what I call The Perfect Shot!! :)
Very beautiful!
Congrats your score!
First bird(yellow): I shot it through the gap and blew up the TNT, just like in the video.
Second bird(blue): I shot towards the lower ice structure and ignited the TNT. I was VERY lucky because there was an object that flew up in the air and down on the high building and ignited that TNT.
Third bird(yellow): I popped the last piggies.
My score was 15320 points.
I used the same strat besdies the first shot. Instead of just flinging through the gap aim for the right trap, you hit it, it aims you right down and you almost always hit the wood block on the bottom corner and everything is destroyed over the gap.
I fired the first 2 shots like the video. The second shot failed to trigger the TNT so I fired the third bird to detonate it. The explosion up top caused debris to rain down on the lower structures triggering both TNT’s on the bottom destroying just about everything. Don’t know that I could duplicate it but thought I’d share. Got a pretty good score.
You can obtain a decent score on this episode with a 2-Birder, the three times that I’ve gotten them are when I first 3 starred it with 113k+ two days ago, then twice today with 115k+ and now 123k+ with lots of destruction, and it all depends on how well behaved and obedient your Blue Bird is.
1) First Yellow Bird at rear structure as in video, but debris coming to the front sets off TNT beneath all the piggies in the center bottom structure. There’s a considerable amount of the “L” factor involved in this shot, as well as lots of resets.
2) Now’s the part where your Blue Birds must behave like well trained Kamikazes because they need to detonate the top TNT as well as send the boulder down to get the fat pig at front, on my last attempt the TNT at the bottom left was also detonated by the boulder. Lots of patience and persistence (also lots of spare time) will give you satisfaction in the end.
ps. I know that a 3-Birder may give a higher score, but it’s good to know that it can be done with 2.
I can’t get 100% Mighty Eagle destruction here. Anyone care to point me to a strategy?
Yellow: Take out the top-left rope, causing the boulder to fall.
Blue: Blast the two TNT high above the level.
Yellow & Yellow: Clean up any of the stone you can, especially the boulder if it rolls too far to the left.
Sardine Can: (Based on the original image of the level) close to the stone triangle, if anything a little higher may be good.
Having a heck of a time trying to get above average on this level. It’s amazing how many times in a row I can hit that horizontal stone while trying to throw the 1st bird through the gap. Now, if I really needed to do that, I’d never hit it…LOL
@JTB – I know!
I’m considering aiming for it since usually when I miss I miss low…
Where’s the Mighty Eagle Feather Walkthrough Through Part 3 of Surf and Turf?
I don’t plan to record any videos there. I have written a few textual strategies on different 3-star walkthrough pages.
Did anyone notice what looks like an air vent appearing centered at the top of the screen? I noticed it three times.
First shot through the trap door, second shot with bb taking out upper structure.
After those two shots, that vent appeared. No idea what it’s about. Anyone else seen it?
That’s the notification bar on iOS. Try pulling it down and you should recognize it.
Hmmm….that’s part of the OS system? It looks like part of the game. Never seen it before. It only stays for two seconds then gone. I tried shooting at it two times. But never tried tapping on it. Strange that would pop up like that then disappear. Interesting.
It was part of iOS 5. Try swiping it downward to see your notification area.
127,870 with 2 birds. 1st bird same as video. 2nd bird similar to video but aimed wider and higher. Split very late so 1 of the split birds shatters glass and makes direct hit onto TNT. Bits of rock crashed down igniting the TNT on the right hand side, tossing debris e everywhere. At he end of it there was nothing left as everything had been caught in the explosions.
Bad news is that it took heaps of shots to get it in the first place and I have been unable to replicate it since (so far). Am pretty sure the AB GOD took pity on me and gave me a lucky shot to stop me whining in misery over this level. Am very grateful for it too.
The second shot is really luck. It is not possible to repeat them once. What did rovio do? The games had more fun in the older levels. After two and a half year i had the games deleted.
Bye
Just like the vid with the first two birds and got lucky with 128,830 after hours of nutting a very tough iPod screen!
I got my score copying yuriyigolkin. Worth a try on bird number 1 to boost score – deflect the bird off the top edge of the cave entrance so it angles down and takes out the bottom wood strut on the platform, collapsing the whole thing – can get 26k+ this way.
…scored 27,680 on first bird using deflection method off the open door…
…28,890… So it’s worth a go. Still trying to get bird #2 to blow the tricky TNT…
Not sure what additional damage was done, but I had one carom shot off the trap door result in a 1st bird score of 30+K. I know the last thing to hit and almost totally destruct, was the antenna, or weather vane, thing that sits on top. I had been averaging around 23-25K so seeing over 30K made me very happy. Didn’t matter though because I still failed the level.
Having just lost what was going to be a rather long post and not wanting to rewrite everything, all I will say is that I agree with Dubblezero totally. I do not know if Rovio changed something but I have played this level, honestly and sincerely, hundreds of times, not including restarts due to 1st bird misses. The blue birds have NEVER detonated the lower left TNT. The blue birds have NEVER detonated the upper TNT. I have tried so many different angles and have tried splitting at different spots. I have NEVER, and I emphasize this so very strongly, had the upper structure detonate/fall/topple with the blue birds. The 3rd bird always has to be used for the top and the resulting debris just breaks up hitting the platform or curved wall, never reaching the TNT below. I have played this level hundreds of times for hours on end, and I just made 3 stars, barely hitting 110K. This was done because the trap door got busted and I was able to shoot the last bird at the curved wall and having it take out the bottom TNT and pushing debris enough to the left to take out the pig-in-the-glass. To me the blue bird is a waste, serving no significant purpose other than to maybe eliminate the top glass sheet. Many times I have had 2 or 3 (split) blue birds hit the top glass and not break it. I know this game is mostly about luck, but playing hundreds of times and never having the blue bird, regardless of angle or timing of split, eliminate the top structure leads me to believe, for whatever reason (device/platform/latest revision), that the destruction shown in the video is such a low probability that it is not worth the frustration. There is no GE for 3 starring this episode.
Last night I completed the update to the Bad Piggies episode. Although I vowed I would never return to this level, having nothing to play I decided to try to improve my score (a real sucker for punishment). So wouldn’t you know that after posting my opinion on this level and the inability of the blue birds to destroy the top structure, I not only got it to happen but 3 times in a row. What the h**l? I play hundreds of times with no blue bird luck, come here to b**** about it, and then have it happen as if it was the easiest shot in the world. I still had no significant lower damage from it, but it at least gave me 2 YBs to clean up the bottom. But I got my high score of just short of 112K (doubt I will ever hit average) not with the luck of the blue birds, but with a YB destruction of the top structure and for the 1st time having the debris detonate the TNT below. Had I gotten a better score with the 1st bird (only 21K) I may have actually hit average.
Okay, my last post on this level. I rarely go back and replay any level I have 3*’ed; average and high scores are not a biggie for me. But this level had me obsessed. I will never profess to knowing a lot about game design, so it has me so extremely puzzled how, after the last post and several hours of play, I have gone back to not once having the BB’s detonate the top structure. Not only that, several things I never had happen before are now occurring frequently. I always use the carom method off the raised trap door to detonate the structures on the right. I know that when the sling is pulled and I wait for the lightning, when I see one little speck of light through the bands I will hit the trap door at the right angle. But now, many times one of these 3 things is happening. 1) the YB busts the thick vertical block of wood supporting the structure, but it does not collapse. 2) the YB hits instead the vertical stone support which yields nothing. 3) and most baffling, the YB hits the gap wall rather than going through the gap. As soon as I release the YB I tap to accelerate, so I do not believe timing is the issue, especially since the 3 things now happening never happened to me before. Since my last post, not only have I failed to beat my high score, I have only broken 100K twice. I think it is time to forget this level.
@divelucaya – I completely understand what you are saying. This had to be the most confounding level I have seen in AB. Luck played a huge part in getting my score and I do not plan on returning to this level. Good luck in the future, I know I will need it.
Finally got above average and low and behold my first top score in a very long time. (Had it once before on an earlier AB level that has since been beat many times over.). It was achieved with two birds like most of the posts above. The first shot was probably low 20’s and the second shot broke the glass and both sides had debris fall and magically everything fell. Couple hundred tries and I doubt I can repeat. It was the first two birder I got.
http://angrybir.de/181FHVy
Nothing fancy here, I just got really lucky with my second shot ;-)
So the first shot is like the video, something like this: http://angrybir.de/HG573l
Usually the score is between 25 and 27k at this point.
And the second shot is more the one like in @yuriyigolkin video (higher than the level video) and split at the last moment.
More often than not a 3rd bird was necessary to detonate the rightmost TNT and clean up the last pigs, but this one time all went really well… and here is the resulting destruction : http://angrybir.de/HG5vPe
And this is the highscore screenshot: http://angrybir.de/HG5JWs
I have only been playing this level a few hours, so I can count it as a real lucky one.
Playing this level only confirms what I have suspected all along–the people at Rovio are a bunch of Machiavellian sadists who sit around plotting new ways to torture players, grinning and rubbing their hands together with fiendish glee. Having said that, I’m hoping the AB gods are listening and grant me a score above average, as I’m currently just a few hundred points short.
Indeed they were! Within minutes of writing this, I got an exciting four-bird finish with the lower left TNT going off at the last moment for 124,550. Woo! I am delirious at the prospect of never coming back to this level again!
Tough level. I three starred it the second time I completed it, but have only completed it 5 times in three months. ?!?
What the heck, that lightning effect in Yuri video?? It never flashes like that in my pc version D: scary yo
Got the 2022 angry birds classic as a happy revival and right away 3* on every single level … old skills paid off. EXCEPT this one, drives me crazy, no joy with 2nd shot 😓