I think you may have skills beyond those of mere homo sapien. Admittedly I'm an average player at best but my game lengths are no longer than any other 3-ball game. I've had a few players over who I'd consider pretty good (better than me, certainly) and I haven't witnessed any game times like you're describing. Potentially yours had a switch error or odd settings?

Well share it with me!!

hmm on mine the time bonus for hitting the spinning wheel is trivial. And lighting all 3 lanes for just the 5 minute bonus isn't that great of a strategy in my experience. Maybe there's difference in the rom versions?

Your experience is interesting. Tomorrow I'll have to do some testing!

ok I played a bit, focusing on just the spinner/armored truck and lanes. It did not go well One game started well and I managed to quickly build up a bunch of time bonuses so the clock was maxed out (dunno if you can have more time than the clock shows). One thing about hitting the lanes a bunch is you pretty much can't avoid entering the bank through the roof. So if you don't have donuts, dog treat, disabled alarms, etc, you might be in a bind -- which is exactly what happened to me. After getting kicked out of the board game I quickly found myself in Sudden Death mode. Not sure if the timer goes faster when the board game ends but sure seems that way.

I think I do better focusing on the goals and trying to collect the bonuses to improve the board game progress. I watched a few youtube videos but they didn't do anything special. We need some competitive tournament players to weigh in on the spinner/lanes strategy

Also I had a game where I rolled 6 times and they were all 1's or 2's I need the bank teller to award extra rolls or something