Out of shots: your options
Running out of shots doesn't end the level. The out-of-shots card shows your gems at the top, then the ways to keep this board: a saved free shot and +5 shots, with Map and Retry stage under them. Everything else is under More ways to continue.
On this page4 parts

The out-of-shots card: your gems, how far you got, then the ways to keep this board, Map and Retry stage. 
More ways to continue opens the rest: ads, bought shots, aim assist, changing a hazard, the level's leaderboard and the points details. 
Aim assist: the best angle as a line, and the moment to fire.
Every option compared
| Option | Cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| ◎ Use a free shot | free (one saved) | 1 more shot on this board. You earn a free shot every 4 hours, saved up to 6. |
| Use 10 bought shots | already yours | 10 more shots on this board, from a Shot refill you bought |
| ⭐ 25 · +10 shots now | 25 Telegram Stars | 10 more shots on this board |
| ▶ Watch an ad · +3 shots | free (an ad) | 3 more shots on this board, once per level |
| ▶ Watch an ad · retry this stage | free (an ad) | the stage starts again with fresh shots. Offered once the +3 shots ad is used and the free retries are gone. |
| +5 shots | ◆ 40, then ◆ 80, ◆ 120, ◆ 160 for later ones in the same attempt | 5 more shots on this board |
| Retry stage | free 3 times per level a day up to level 50, 2 up to 150, then 1; after that ◆ 30 | the stage starts again with a fresh share of shots (earlier stages stay cleared) |
| Customise a hazard and retry | the option's price in gems | the hazard changed for this stage, a retry, and 1 bonus shot for every ◆ 8 spent (1 to 8) |
| Restart | free | the whole level from stage 1 |
Ads are limited to 6 rewards a day. When they're used up the ad buttons disappear until tomorrow, so you never watch an ad for nothing.
🎯 Aim assist
Stuck on a stage? Buy aim assist with gems. Before each shot the board pauses for a moment while the game plays your shot out for real, with every hazard where it is about to be. It then shows the best angle as a line, and a countdown to the best moment to fire, because moving hazards change which shot works.
- 🎯 Retry with aim assist (under More ways to continue): the stage starts again with help on every shot of that stage. Costs ◆ 15 plus 1 for every 5 levels (◆ 29 on level 70).
- 🎯 Aim assist for the whole level (a boost chip on the level card, or under More ways to continue): help on every stage of the level, for 3 times the stage price (◆ 87 on level 70). It stays on if you restart the level.
- An assisted level gives at most 2 stars and 20% less score, like a stage retry. Aim assist isn't offered on level 1, in hard mode, the daily board, the cup, endless, races or duels.
Which should I pick?
- Only a few bricks left? Keep the board: a free shot, the +3 shots ad, or +5 shots.
- The board is still full? Retry the stage: you get the stage's full share of shots again.
- One hazard keeps wrecking your shots? Customise it for this stage from the card. You pay a few gems and get the retry plus bonus shots, and the card shows the balls each hazard cost you on this stage.
- Can't find a shot that works? 🎯 Aim assist shows the angle and the moment to fire.
- Saving for 3 stars? Up to level 85, any of these caps the level at 2 stars and takes 20% off the score. From level 86, free and ad shots leave 2 stars and everything else 1 star. Restart the level for a clean run.
Customise and retry
Open More ways to continue on the card and tap 🛠 Change a hazard and retry. It opens "Customise the hazards to your favourite and retry the stage": every hazard on the stage in a row you swipe through, the one that cost you most balls first. Tap one to open its Customise window for this stage. Buy any option with gems and the stage restarts with that change on and bonus shots: 1 for every ◆ 8 you spend, from 1 to 8. See Customising hazards for what each option does.