Used to but less often now.

Some games like Lotr feel like you need to have a good first ball to get a leg up on the game. But some games like Iron Man I’ve had a bad first ball and blown the game up on the second or third.

I would do it more often a few years ago but now hardly at all.

this just in the last couple of years, it takes the game back to standby mode like you just turned on the game but didn't press start (not ball 1) unlike pressing and holding the start button which restarts new game.

IIRC every time you restart the game after ball 1 it counts as a game played for the audits. Still keeps track of how many balls played as well.

Great post!

Good points above but imo it’s cheating is still my opinion.

take the glass off, put on 5 balls, super long ball save, easy attainable EB award, restart game, no tilt bob, rubber band the out lanes. These all give you inflated scores.

You can say some are cheating some are not but to me they’re all cheating just some less cheating than others.

Say you are playing solitaire and you restart if you don’t get several Aces early. You will win more often but it’s not a valid win because you start with the deck stacked.

Now that I think of it ball save timer is cheating, you guys are already getting 5-6 balls on most games (counting all your instant drains).

Why don’t you just take the glass off and get your GC scores.

I’m only joking, if you seen my scores you’d know I’m not that good. But don’t feel like restart a game is making me happier about still having bad scores. I’d rather just have a bad score and say at least I earned that fair and square.

What’s your excuse if you restart and still mess up on the 2nd or 3rd ball? Play better.

looks like a fun game, I've never played it before. Was that a power ball and was there a ball saver on for a long time at start of ball 3?