New Pinball Dictionary: Warden
An advanced flipper technique which involves slightly moving a cradled ball to leave enough room to also capture another ball that is incoming, so that both balls are on the same flipper.
New Pinball Dictionary: Tilt Karma
Occurs when the player makes a miraculous save of the ball that uses up all of their tilt warnings …
New Pinball Dictionary: Straitjacket
The invisible force that can be felt by a player when pinball games are staged as close as possible. Especially when games are right next to each other, with active players on each side, and/or behind them.
New Pinball Dictionary: Pocket Entry / One in the Pocket
Keeping a tournament qualifying entry either unfinished or purposefully not starting one you’ve purchased as the qualifying time moves onward throughout the day.
New Pinball Dictionary: Unicorn
An entry submitted during a ticket-based format that contains a number-one ranked score on every game played within that ticket.
New Pinball Dictionary: Threading
Barely flipping a very fast moving ball that is heading for a drain down the middle, such that it goes off of the center post, under the opposite flipper, up the outlane and back into play.
New Pinball Dictionary: Bathroom Stall / Restroom Stall
A “strategy” that can be used during the Final Rounds of a tournament where there is a stipulation that the player choosing a game to play MUST choose a game not currently being played by someone else.
(AKA “no waiting for games”)
New Pinball Dictionary: Icarus Round
The Pinburgh round where a player gets owned after previously performing well above their own perceived level of competition.
The Grand Champion Challenge v0.1.0 (ALPHA)
This was nearly going to be the first edition of “The Grand Champion Challenge”. Read onward to see what “The Grand Champion Challenge” is.
New Pinball Dictionary: Final Destination
When you pull off an amazing save, only to experience a swift and irretrievable death with the ball’s next action.