Family Guy

Stern, 2007 — shot-by-shot rules and strategy guide.

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Family Guy packs a surprising amount of interlocking rules into a fairly compact layout — a ramp, a captive mini-playfield, six character shots scattered across the table, and a scoop whose job changes completely depending on what's lit. Almost nothing here stands alone: the same pop bumpers drive two mode rotations, and the same Evil Monkey target feeds two more. Learning the table is mostly learning which shots pull double duty.

The opening moves

Every ball opens with the bottom F-A-R-T target lit for the skill shot: 500K the first time it's collected in a game, climbing 250K with each repeat no matter how many balls that takes. Few players ever find the alternate route — the lane running beneath the mini-playfield is a hidden second skill shot, and taking it instead of the F target doubles whatever the current value is and bumps the next skill shot's starting point up by 250K on top of that.

Outside of any mode, Meg, Chris and Stewie each pay their own climbing value on every hit — 100K to start, with a fixed bump per shot that differs by character. Lois builds a smaller rising total on the spinner. All six main characters also feed the end-of-ball bonus at their own flat rate rather than a shared ladder: Meg's hits are worth the most there, Lois's the least. Clearing the X-X-X bank under Peter pays a rising value of its own, up to 250K, and nudges the bonus multiplier toward a 5x ceiling.

Beer Can and TV modes

Two mode tracks share one control — any pop bumper hit rotates both the flashing Beer Can mode and the flashing TV mode forward. Hit the Beer Can standup enough times, five to start and one more each time after, to cash in whichever mode is lit: Collect Beers pays your running hit total, Giggity Giggity maxes the bumpers outright, Happy Hour doubles every score for 20 seconds, and Remember When opens a countdown Jackpot at a random character, starting at 3M and growing a million with every repeat. The fifth slot is Lard Multiball, a two-ball mode built around six Jackpot shots on a ten-second relight timer, paying a 3M Super Jackpot if all six go out at once.

TV modes work off the Lois spinner: ten spins lights TV at the scoop the first time, five more each time after, up to a cap of thirty. The lit scoop banks 500K and starts whichever 30-second mode is flashing — Good Old Boys climbs 500K to a 1M ceiling per shot, Super Griffins tops out at 6.75M for working all six characters, Chicken Fight turns every switch into a punch until a life bar empties, Sexy Party climbs 300K toward a 750K cap per Stewie hit, and Ipecac Contest pays more per shot per extra character worked in, up to 1M with all four. Finish all five and the scoop stays lit for TV Wizard instead of resetting.

Fart Multiball and Crazy Chris

Clear the F-A-R-T bank three times and Fart Multiball begins with two balls and a short save; every restart after needs one more clear, up to six, and starts with three balls instead. Jackpots are priced by demand rather than a flat number — twenty thousand points for every switch hit a given Jackpot requires — so the tougher ones pay more.

Crazy Chris runs on a different pairing. Chris hits knock the Evil Monkey target down in front of the ramp and raise its value; hitting the dropped Evil Monkey while its light flashes banks that total and, if the light says so, opens a 20-second run where every lit shot pays 200K per Evil Monkey hit landed since that run began, up to a 1M ceiling per shot. Drawing Crazy Chris from the Drunken Clam instead skips that math and pays a flat 400K a shot.

Stewie and the mystery saucer

The Drunken Clam rewards shooting it whenever it's lit — nothing it offers is wasted on something you hold. One trick lights P-I-N-B-A-L-L at the scoop, handing control to Stewie's own mini-playfield. Clear its five characters — Lois needs four hits and pays best per hit, the rest need three to five — and your first completion raises a playfield multiplier that holds for the rest of the ball, capping at 3x (it resets when a new session begins). Finish all five and you drop into Stewie Multiball: each character needs a second completion on the real table, both captive balls spell letters toward add-a-balls, and a maxed-out set lights an Evil Monkey Super Jackpot worth 2M. Hit it twice and the second pays 3M, briefly opening the Clam for a Triple Super Secret Jackpot worth three times that.

Sperm Attack

The finale asks for six achievements spread across the whole game — 5 Evil Monkey Jackpots, 10 lit shots inside one Crazy Chris run, 15 Fart Multiball Jackpots, every Beer Can award, a Stewie Super Jackpot, and 25M or more during TV Wizard — before MULTIBALL lights at the scoop. Once it starts, the mini-playfield spends eighteen seconds building a shared Jackpot, then the Clam and the scoop trade a locked ball for two million a shot, sending you back to build the total higher each time you keep the chain alive. None of the six requirements ask you to play differently than you already would — they reward spreading your game around, not camping one shot all night.

Goals in Family Guy

Every goal below is tracked step-by-step, with shot paths drawn on the playfield map, inside the app.

• F Target Skill Shot skillshot · Easy

  The bottom target of the F-A-R-T bank is lit for the skill shot at the start of every ball. Worth 500K the first time you land it, climbing 250K each time after.

  Reward: 500K climbing by 250K

• Raise And Knock Down Death combo · Easy

  The left inlane resets the Death drop target so you can hit it again. Worth 200K the first time each ball, rising 25K after, and it raises a ball-save post between the flippers besides.

  Reward: 200K climbing by 25K, plus a temporary ball-save post

• Cross-Table Doublers multiplier · Medium

  Two inlanes double a shot clear on the other side of the table — the left inlane doubles the Lois spinner, the right inlane doubles the Meg target — and a slingshot hit swaps which one is currently live.

  Reward: Double value on the matching shot

• Light Not Special strategy · Easy

  The left outlane does nothing on its own. Once the Drunken Clam lights Not Special there, a drain that way is an extra ball instead of a lost one.

  Reward: Extra ball

• Clear The Peter Bank multiplier · Easy

  Three standups spelling X-X-X for Peter. Completing the bank pays a rising value and permanently raises your end-of-ball bonus multiplier, up to 5x for the ball.

  Reward: 100K climbing to 250K, plus a rising bonus multiplier

• Work The Base Values strategy · Easy

  Meg, Chris and Stewie each pay their own rising value on every hit outside of a mode, and every one of those hits also pads the end-of-ball bonus at its own fixed rate.

  Reward: 100K+ per-hit values on Meg, Chris and Stewie, climbing with each hit

• Fart Multiball multiball · Medium

  Clear the F-A-R-T bank three times to start it the first time — the requirement climbs by one after every start, to a maximum of six. Jackpots are priced in switch hits, not dollars: more hits required, more it pays.

  Reward: 20K per required switch hit, per jackpot

• Beer Can Modes progression · Medium

  Any bumper hit rotates which of five Beer Can modes is flashing. Hit the Beer Can enough times — 5 to start, one more each time after — to cash in whatever's currently lit.

  Reward: One of five rotating awards

• Lard Multiball multiball · Medium

  The fifth and last of the Beer Can modes. A generous two-ball multiball with six Jackpot shots and a countdown that keeps you moving.

  Reward: 250K climbing to 750K per Jackpot, 3M Super Jackpot

• The Drunken Clam mode · Medium

  The mystery saucer. Whatever it's lit for when you shoot it is genuinely useful — nothing here is ever a joke award for something you already have.

  Reward: Context-sensitive: points, bonus, Fart Multiball, or a lit feature

• TV Modes progression · Medium

  Spin the Lois spinner to light TV at the scoop — ten spins the first time, five more each time after, up to a cap of thirty — then shoot it to start whichever of five TV modes is currently flashing; bumpers rotate the selection just like the Beer Can modes.

  Reward: 500K to start, then a 30-second scoring mode

• TV Wizard wizard · Hard

  Unlocked once you've played all five TV modes. A grouped jackpot mode where the starting value is built from everything you've done across the whole game.

  Reward: 1M to start, plus a jackpot value built from your entire game's TV progress

• Crazy Chris mode · Medium

  Chris hits drop the Evil Monkey target in front of the ramp and build its value. Hit the Evil Monkey while its light is flashing and you start a 20-second run where every lit shot is worth 200K times how many Evil Monkey hits you've landed since Crazy Chris last started, capped at 1M a shot.

  Reward: 200K per banked Evil Monkey hit, per lit shot, capped at 1M

• Evil Monkey Jackpot mode · Medium

  A lane under the mini-playfield that pays an escalating Jackpot when lit, or a smaller rising value even when it isn't. The lit window is timed, so a fast double-back can occasionally bank two in a row.

  Reward: 500K climbing by 50K lit, 250K climbing by 25K to 500K unlit

• The Secret Skill Shot secret · Hard

  This lane doubles as a hidden second skill shot. Route the ball here instead of the F target while SKILL SHOT is still lit and you score double the current value.

  Reward: 2x the current skill shot value, +250K to the next one

• Stewie Pinball mode · Medium

  Light P-I-N-B-A-L-L at the scoop and the main flippers go dead while a separate mini table takes over. Completing characters there raises a playfield multiplier that holds for the rest of the ball; clear all five to bring the real flippers back.

  Reward: 500K-1.5M per completed character, up to a 3x playfield multiplier

• Stewie Multiball multiball · Hard

  Finishing Stewie Pinball's five characters starts this outright. Complete each character a second time on the main playfield, complete P-I-N-B-A-L-L to add balls, and chase the Super Jackpot.

  Reward: 500K per Jackpot, 2M-3M Super Jackpot, a hidden 3x Clam bonus

• Pirate Target mode · Medium

  A context-sensitive standup. What it pays depends entirely on what else is running when you hit it — useless most of the time, generous when it matters.

  Reward: Add-a-ball, timer resets, or bonus hits, depending on context

• The Pinball Combo combo · Medium

  Start from either orbit and finish at the Upper Captive Ball for a combo worth 500K, climbing 50K every time you complete it. Starting from the Lois side pays the full value; starting from Chris only pays half.

  Reward: 500K climbing by 50K (half value from the Chris side)

• Sperm Attack wizard · Hard

  The final wizard mode. Meet six separate milestones across the whole game and MULTIBALL lights at the scoop for a two-phase finale built entirely around your own Jackpot.

  Reward: A Jackpot you build yourself, collected in repeating rounds