I feel like i have had a good game at anything north of 2 billion. I try to get midnight madness at least twice. Always hit the cellar shot when it pops up. and complete the illusions as quickly as you can.

I do not consider myself the best of players though.

I've got my TOM recently, and the best I've done is 3.5 billion. I managed to get to the Grand Finale and hit every shot completing it with that particular game.

I think I'm around 3.7B.

The absolute key to TOM is keeping Hokus Pokus constantly lit for magna saves on the outlanes. It's hard sometimes to stay focused on this, but as soon as I have the option to shoot to relight this, and something else is tempting which I go for, I miss, and sure enough, the ball drains down an outlane.

I relight the trap door all the time, and make it a priority to enter it, as the rewards can be very good.

The outlanes are bad on this game, something that few people seem to note on. Good design though, given there is a the magnet saves.

I find that making sure you maximize the 8x bonus is another key. I could get bonus scores of 600 million points on occasion.

+1 Same here. Got over a billion on the first time playing TOM.

I was talking more about staying alive to move to the finale, but as for points, yes, the bonus is huge in this game, so good point.

I lock two balls then shoot left loop over and over to get theatre award with the trunk spun already to the magnet side then get one hit - get theatre award and mulitball at same time - then hit 100 million
Instantly a lot of easy points.