Quoted from accidental:There is one thing in common with all newbies: they only shoot up the middle.
So then the best games for newbies are ones where constantly shooting up the middle will cause something interesting and meaningful to happen.
Outside of theme and humor, this ^^^^^^^^^.
On balls rolling down the inlane to the flipper, newbies nearly always flip early -- they don't have the confidence to let the ball roll further down the flipper and agonizingly close to the drain.