I have a pocketful of Elaut tokens, but none of these three Tribbles I spotted were nearly close enough to the edge for me to try playing for them.
I also noticed that none were trapped by tokens, so I was also concerned about the possibility of them sliding backward once they got near the edge.
What would you have done? Play or pass?
Well, well, it’s rare that I walk past Spider-Man with 4 Spider Sense lit up, one step away from Rapid Auto Shot and four Big Balls near the edge. It’s almost too good to pass up. So I didn’t pass it up. I swiped once for 12 chips on a full price day to see what I could do.
It didn’t take long to remind myself why I should give myself a lifetime ban on coin pushers 😆. I managed to get one Big Ball to drop and got it into the Super Spin hole on the Big Ball Game, but I ended up stopping on 120 tickets just one panel short of the 1000 tickets.
By the time I took all 12 shots I still hadn’t managed to activate Rapid Auto Shot, so I swiped again for another 12 chips. Ouch. These chips are burning a hole in my pocket. At least I managed to get the Rapid Auto Shot on this swipe, but this should come as no surprise to anyone…no more Big Balls dropped off the edge.
So did I learn my 24-chip lesson for 122 tickets (2 mercy tickets for the second swipe)? Probably not, but I hope I do not live down this experience for a long time to come. I’m much better off watching others play, but this setup was sooo hard to pass up!
If you’ve ever had a similarly demoralizing experience, you’re not alone!
I managed to get the ball stuck again. This time it found a happy place to get stuck sitting on top of the black side bumper next to the -1000 hole and against the outside of the 10000 ring.
It's probably not all that uncommon of an occurrence, but this was the first time it happened to me.
It was easy enough to dislodge with another ball on the next game.
Now if only I could do fewer trick shots and be more consistent hitting 4000s 😆.
Original post from yesterday is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DaveAndBusters/s/L8xMnVEGQ3
I've since updated it with this latest development.
It took them only a day to exclude our Canadian friends, and more importantly, remove the ability to earn any tickets.
Boo.
https://www.daveandbusters.com/us/en/holidaydeals/july-festivities
If I'm interpreting this offer correctly, for 7/4/26 only, you can purchase an unlimited play card for $2.50 that is good for the rest of the day with 30-second cooldown and can earn up to 1500 tickets. Card must be purchased that morning before 11:59 am local time.
Does that look right, or am I missing something?
Edited to add the link to the offer below:
https://www.daveandbusters.com/us/en/holidaydeals/july-festivities
Edit 2 (6/25/26):
They've updated the fine print to exclude Canadians and removed the ability to earn tickets.
PROMOTIONAL. Valid 07/04/2026 only. Not valid in Canada locations. Must purchase with a Team Member before 11:59 am local time on that day. $2.50 All Day Unlimited Game Play is valid only on the date of purchase and expires at the end of that store’s business day. Offer includes a 30-second lag between each game play swipe. Valid on green and blue swipe games only. Not valid on purple swipe games (VR, crane games, pushers, dance games or merchandising games) or the Human Crane, The Arena, and Game Suites. Tickets cannot be earned. Valid one per person. Tax and gratuity not included. Not valid with any other promotion. Restrictions apply. Offer subject to change or cancellation at any time. See store for details. Void where prohibited.
It's unfortunate that I shot this photo when the lights were red, but I managed to get my first throw stuck in the 10000 hole in the upper right. And I'm right handed, so if I were trying for a 10000 hole, you'd think it would be the upper left one, so I'm just as surprised as you are 😆.
Someone else had posted a few weeks ago about this having happened to them.
I didn't have time to get a tech, but if it still looks like this tomorrow I'll let somebody know.
Anzellans:
(1) on the playfield. Check.
(2) on the right side of the playfield. Check.
(3) reasonably close to the edge. Check.
(4) trapped under some coins. Check.
It all looked like a great setup for me to swipe and play The Mandalorian and Grogu for the first time, and then I noticed that the card reader wasn't working.
I'm taking this as an intervention from the universe 😆.
The letter puck got stuck against this post in the auto fill dispenser unit. I think that the dome has to be removed in order to access this area, which seems to be a somewhat involved task, so to save the hassle for the techs I kept playing in the hopes that the next puck lift would help dislodge the letter puck.
Any of you who have followed along when I post about this game know that I'm not great at dropping pucks. So it's not like I'm dropping a puck every play...not even close.
I learned that the agitator (the official name in the manual for the spinning metal bar that's supposed to knock the pucks back into play) is not quite long enough to have any effect on this stuck puck.
It wasn't until the third lift that some pucks were located in a manner to help dislodge this letter puck back into play.
Was it worth the effort? Probably not for the most part, but I achieved my initial goal of not having to have our techs remove the dome. I like our tech crew, so if there's anything I can do to relieve the burden on them, I'm all for it.
Letter puck unstuck!
I wish I could say I spotted this from across the room with the telltale alternating purple and white LEDs on the corners of the cabinet, but no, I just regularly hit up Harpoon Lagoon if I have time long enough for the screen to darken once to see if it’s my lucky day and the jellyfish appears.
This is the first time I’ve walked up to the game with the jellyfish already out waiting for someone to harpoon it. And this time, that someone was me.
500 tickets is certainly not the best jackpot for the jellyfish (I’ve seen it range from a high of 1000 to a low of, I don’t remember exactly, 200-something?) but still not bad for not having spent any time playing trying to get the jellyfish to appear.
Between the 500 jackpot, a couple of sharks and some random other fish, I ended up with 648 tickets for this swipe after all was said and done. No complaints here!
At long last, after seeing playfield after playfield full of Tribbles way too far away from the edge for me to play, today was the day that I had a chance to play the four Elaut tokens burning a hole in my pocket.
I counted ten Tribbles with one hanging off the edge toward the right end. After I played through three tokens, it dropped!
Finally, redemption for the last time I tried this with an even larger pocketful of Elauts and turned up empty 😁.
According to this article on PR Newswire the Summer Season Pass will be available beginning May 19.
Just when I thought that finding 8 Tribbles on one side was a lot, here are 11 Tribbles! I did not play because nothing was close enough to the edge, but hopefully someone was able to get all of these.
This photo is from sometime last week. I hope somebody was able to nab all 8 Tribbles! None were close enough to the edge for me to try my luck.
This definitely gives out cards. 6 chips per swipe on half price day. I didn't play it myself but was watching someone play for a little bit. It will take me a little while to figure out what all is going on 😆.