I have a Stern Jurassic Park Premium pinball table in my basement. Needless to say, I have played countless hours on the machine. While I am not pinball wizard, I consider myself decent. This is going to be a full rundown on my version of the strategy for scoring high points on this machine. If you watch Zach/Escher this will be a bit different than the pro strat. A lot of strats are pretty simple, but as you will see this one is pretty flexible depending upon how you are doing. I find this fitting because different machines play differently. Some strategies are all or nothing and some cap out your maximum scoring potential, this one does neither

Start with a full plunge and shoot the H ramp for a skill shot. You care less about the points of the skill shot and more about the ball save timer. Do this with every plunge. You want to proceed down the left side of the map, so if the truck is facing that direction then shoot the H ramp again. If not, then you need to move the truck. Be careful! You only get 1 or 2 shots to move the truck, so hit the shot clean. Shoot the H ramp to start the paddock.

Now your goal is to bash the truck to get a t-rex multiball! You do not care about shot multipliers, you only care about that 2 ball multiball, so shoot it in trex mouth. You have a few goals in this multiball and its not playing the multiball. If you were to build up jackpots to 2k before starting the mode and you were to completely get the super jackpot (6 shots in order) its worth about 30M-50M points. Instead, we will be playing this multiball so you can make 30M points from 1 shot. So. 1/ Catch the dinosaur by getting a rescue hitting a trap and catching dino. 2/ Light supply drop by hitting blue targets. Do not collect the supply drop. This will light 2x for us which we are saving. 3/ Perfect paddock by getting the rescues. If you have done all of this and you are still in the multiball then you can play it. If you died early, thats okay. You want to make sure you catch the dino and hit the blue standups.

If you are still on ball 1 or 2, we want to try to stack a bunch of modes together with 2x for insane scoring. But, if you are on ball 3 go ahead and skip to the Secure Control Room section. You want to backhand the raptor cage to open it and then lock. Backhand is the safest here. Get the raptor down to <10%, which means we just need 2 more shots. Now hit the supply drop (assuming you havent already) to light our 2x target. Then start your next paddock mode by hitting the map (white shots) and then shooting the H ramp, you might have already started this anyway but if not start it now. If you can stay to the left (for now) thats great, but dont spend time on it.

You are now queued up for the mother of all multiballs, a double/triple mode stack. Shoot the C shot and choose restore power. Now backhand raptor twice and you get the multiball, if you are like me you probably only need 1 shot here because you whiffed the C shot earlier, but thats why we left it 2 shots away. You absolutely MUST shoot the H ramp during this multiball. Let balls drain and make sure to shoot the H (or A) so you qualify another control room. Beyond that your goal is to hit the spinner which will let you start collecting jackpots. Then shoot the 2x. This is where the fun comes in. Restore power increases each shot so 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, … but when you are 2xed then it becomes 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x! If you can juice up some spinner rips these shots can start being worth 20-40k per because the base value can be 5k by itself. If you time out of restore power try to play the multiball. During the multiball its nice to get to the 6 ball multiball, but honestly I just try to get all the blue drops down again to light a supply drop for when the mode ends. Remember the supply drop will give us another 2x which we can use later.

Okay, so you are either on ball 3 or you finished the restore power. Up next is 2x scoring on the secure control room. Your primary goal is to hit the 2x and then spinner and then tower. You have ~45s to hit spinner tower. Spinner tower combo is worth ~50M points! If you do nothing else but this, you will beat a lot of folks. Your secondary goal is to finish the mode. If you can finish the mode, which is 7 shots/combos in ~50s, then you get a fossil. This fossil is worth soo much! You dont care about score in this mode (beyond the spinner tower shot) so just shoot H-S, S-H, and finish the C. A bunch of easy shots and you collect a fossil.

This is why we choose the left side of the map. Because you caught the dino and now you have the fossil. If you are lucky/unlucky you already did the spinner-truck DNA combo. If not, that is our next goal assuming you have the fossil. If you dont have the fossil skip this section. Hold both flippers down and navigate to the DNA section and look to see if you have the DNA combo. If you are on ball 3 just shoot spinner truck for a free 50-60M points. If you are on ball 1 or 2, then I would get a 2x scoring going by hitting the supply drops and lighting 2x first. Think about it, 2x 50M points is 100M points!

At this point you have probably caught or missed your second dino. If you can you want to go into the t-rex paddock. If you happen to catch t-rex its worth an extra ball, but more importantly extended timers in all modes which is insane! You arent explicitly going for the dino, but if you get him great. You want to hit the truck a few times and play the chase mode. After trex mode I like to finish the right side of the map.

At this point if you played all of those modes like trash and you didnt get the fossil, you are still at ~300M points. If you played the modes well and got the 2x fossil, you are pushing 1B. If you are making it further than this, then you probably dont need to be reading the guide. After the chase mode, I like to rush the visitor center by completing out the map. The last secure control room is too risky to light. Same with the other trex modes. While trex rampage can be insane scoring potential, its pretty risky to get to and even riskier to play when trex throws it straight out an outlane. Take the safe path and finish out the paddocks to hit the visitor center. You will be given like 200M just for showing up to the visitor center.

Unfortunately, thats about as far as I can make it. I consistently get to the second control room plus the trex chase. But, I normally die before the visitor center. Sometimes Ill make it there though, and those games are normally in the 1B - 1.5B range (even with EB off). While you can get a 500M restore power comboed with the 100M trifecta, thats pretty challenging and rare.

Other random notes - If you get a smart missile, you mostly want to choose clear paddock. Its insane and most of the time gives you another missle.