# I'm too old to be driven insane by Angry Birds! Help! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 30, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882 "2010-12-30T22:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/21 "2011-01-13T18:43:25Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > You’ll figure it out. Basically the more stuff you knock down the more points you get. And you get 10,000 points for each bird you have left over. So knock down as much stuff and get all the pigs with the least birds possible. Each level seems to have it’s own score thresholds for 2 and 3 stars (I guess you’ll always get one for beating it.) Yeah, so far so good…but I did a level today where I launched a bird and it split into 3 – kind of a MIRV-bird. And I wondered WTF did that come from, and why doesn’t it happen all the time? The level started with a drawing that depicted something of this sort…but I’m still not sure what happened. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/22 "2011-01-13T18:44:43Z")
A few tips: - Sometimes an all-out frontal assault is better than overthinking. - Lobbing birds over the top and dropping them in from a high angle can be very effective when a frontal assault isn’t working. - The white birds can be extra effective if you aim low enough that he’ll still hit the structure after dropping the egg. - Many of the levels feature structures with one fatal (but not always obvious) weakness. Find that spot for devastating effect. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/23 "2011-01-13T18:49:05Z")
Hmm. When a new type of bird is available there should be a demonstrative picture of what it does, but I’ll break it down for you. Red bird: your basic bird. No frills, just blunt force. Blue bird: after launching, tap screen (or trackpad/mouse button) anywhere and it will split into three. Yellow bird: speeds up really fast when you tap. White bird: drops an explosive egg when you tap, then flies off at a high angle. Black bird: explodes when you tap, or a few seconds after impacting something. Green bird: boomerangs when you tap. In later levels there’s what I call the Redzilla, which is just a giant red bird that does a ton of damage. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/24 "2011-01-13T18:49:27Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Yeah, so far so good…but I did a level today where I launched a bird and it split into 3 – kind of a MIRV-bird. And I wondered WTF did that come from, and why doesn’t it happen all the time? The level started with a drawing that depicted something of this sort…but I’m still not sure what happened. You can tap the screen while that bird is in the air to make it split into 3. Similarly, you can make the yellow bird speed up by tapping the screen while it is in flight. ETA: DcnDc said it, and covered the other birds, too. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/25 "2011-01-13T18:50:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Yeah, so far so good…but I did a level today where I launched a bird and it split into 3 – kind of a MIRV-bird. And I wondered WTF did that come from, and why doesn’t it happen all the time? The level started with a drawing that depicted something of this sort…but I’m still not sure what happened. Yes, you tap (click?) for the special ability. Red ones do nothing special, white ones will drop an egg, yellow ones will go really fast, blue ones split into 3 and are good for ice blocks, black ones will blow up although they will do that on their own after a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/26 "2011-01-13T18:56:00Z")
Thanks! Obviously, the demonstrative picture was a bit too subtle for me. I must’ve inadvertently tapped my trackpad, and had no idea I was controlling the bird (or that the color of the bird was significant in any way.) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/27 "2011-01-13T19:34:56Z")
A few other tips regarding the birds. Red birds are best for destroying wooden blocks, yellow birds (after tapping) are extra effective. Blue birds shatter glass bricks the easiest. And sometimes it’s better to wait until just before the impact to split them. Black (bomb) birds smash through stone bricks the best. and 99% of them it’s better to let them blow up on their own, then tapping them. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/28 "2011-01-14T07:56:47Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Red bird: your basic bird. No frills, just blunt force. > > Blue bird: after launching, tap screen (or trackpad/mouse button) anywhere and it will split into three. > > Yellow bird: speeds up really fast when you tap. > > White bird: drops an explosive egg when you tap, then flies off at a high angle. > > Black bird: explodes when you tap, or a few seconds after impacting something. > > Green bird: boomerangs when you tap. :eek: I didn’t realise that tapping the screen changed things, hahhaha. No wonder I’ve been struggling ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882/29 "2011-01-14T18:15:41Z")
And sometimes it’s best to drop the white bird’s bomb right next to what you are aiming for because the collateral damage can kill pigs inside. Die, pigs, die!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-old-to-be-driven-insane-by-angry-birds-help/565882.md?page=1)