Your playing in an event either at a home game, PAPA, Pinburgh, IFPA etc etc. The game of choice is ACDC and you are playing with 3 other people. One of the players has some "cheat sheets" which he places on either side of the game which cover the menu cards.. One sheet has the song associated with the tours and the other has the songs assoicated with the albums. When he finishes playing he takes the sheets/cards off the game.

Is this unethical or against the rules to have strategy sheets or cards which help you learn the game whilst playing it in a tournament. I know there are applications that are allowed when playing online poker to help you and given that ACDC is so complicated I was wondering what anyone thought if this????

What if those notes where given to a player that had never played the game before and followed the strategy given to them from an A grade player and went on to win Division D in Pinburgh???

Yeah strategy cards that are on the game could be considered coaching during the game?? I understand that shots have to be made however you could have an A grade player who knows nothing about ACDC getting smashed by a B grade player who knows the strategy. Its one of those games where knowledge and strategy have a massive advantage...

Agreed but knowing the faults/ flipper angles/ skillshot settings on a game if different that memorizing a strategy namely which songs to line up with album and tour MBs to get the song jackpot...

I agree theres nothing wrong with learning about a game prior or during an event.. Like theres TVs to watch etc but just not sure about having notes on the game itself while you are playing it.

Down here we had the national ACDC championship and I was debating whether to have a set of notes on the game. I decided not to do it...

I think ACDC is the only game that you may need a cheat sheet during the game since its so hard to remember which song to play depending on what album/ tour you are upto... Not sure that an mp3 player would be affective here...

Yeah agreed, given that the game will be set up so hard then it is unlikely that you would need to know the songs for the second round of album or tour, but it is possible for A graders to get more than one MB... Given that there are alot of song combinations only Robert Gagno could remember these

Sorry I meant more than one album or more than one tour...

Yeah like the intention of the thread was about using cheat sheets when playing a game... Never seen it done but was wondering what people thought about it..

lol why you surprised about a Danish pinball champ... The current IFPA world champ is Italian

Yeah theres alot of talent out there that used to play pinball as well and have just stopped playing altogether as its not out there anymore... Home market is taking off but pinball aint talking off on location as much..

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Should the menu cards be pulled out during events like Pinburgh then??? I obvs dont think so but they too provide information about the game, however the question is how much info is too much info??? Heck for players that are not on this forum and who do not own an ACDC, hell there is no way that they would ever know about the song jackpot during multiball... If you were playing against them clearly you would have an advantage but knowing this strategy (which imo should be included in the status)...

I think to solve this problem, the status should update to inform you what song needs to be played to award the need song jackpot during album and tour MB. If a player fails to check that then thats their problem.

Yeah I agree that cheat sheets should not be used during the game play hence the reason I decided not to use them in the national comp here. ACDC is one of the very few games that is so deep that it would take an extraordinary mind or someone that has played ACDC thousands of times to remember all the albums with the songs and the tours with the songs. If that can be done lol then good luck to them! Hehe an ACDC fan would surely know these as well...

If you can remember a phone number you can remember the sttng video EB pattern

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