As you may already know, there’s a new version with much more forgiving Mino Chamber and new rule for the Defeat indicator so that we can get Spatiotemporal Randezvous multiple times per ball. This is very cool. I guess more players can hit the counter stop with this updated version.
I hope 2011 will be a good year for all of you, pinheads!

Basic tactics for Mad Daedalus is pretty much the same as the other LittleWing pinballs — maintain multiball as long as you can.
1. Initiate King Minos Frenzy as soon as possible.
2. Initiate Minotaur multiball while King Minos Frenzy is still active
3. Get Field 5X first for maximizing your score
4. Get Bonus 5X by shooting Mino Chamber and Skyway ramp in order
5. Try correcting all other Ariadne award if possible
6. At this point you may archive everything to start Spatiotemporal Rendezvous
7. After Spatiotemporal Rendezvous ends, repeat the step from 1 to 5
8. If you lose a ball, repeat step 1 to 7

To maximize your score, it is critical to maintain 4 balls during multiball.
With Field 5X, your Inferno Points will be 100,000,000 for four balls multiball while you only get 50,000,000 for two balls multiball. There are many ways to activate ball save feature and once you can control when you activate it, the duration of multiball will be much longer thus your score rises dramatically.

I’ll go through some details like what target to aim and what target not to, kind of things to avoid “Deadly path”.

So far my current score as of 3rd playing day is something like 2,000,000,000+.
Here’s my “DO NOT” list I found so far:
1. DO NOT aim to the “Power spot target” unless you are in multi ball mode
-Power level can be maximized during multi ball mode anyways. And do not expect the “Ball save” always save your ball, especially at level 1. It will be deactivated while you fumble the ball.
2. DO NOT aim to the “Mad drop target” from bottom flippers unless you are in multi ball mode
-From the bottom flipper, bounced ball may slip between the flippers to the out hole, say, one in 30 times as I observed. Advancing ‘DAEDALUS” letter can be achieved by completing the top lanes as well.

Same as Jinni Zeala, you will get unlimited extra balls as long as you maintain the Super Tower multiball by installing four orbs at once. It means you never reduce your remaining ball count as long you initiate Super Tower multiball more often than you lose your ball. It sounds easy but I am suffering with the fact that I always hit the tower with one or two orbs by mistake :-<
I am not sure it’s a spec or bug but after Super Tower multiball, one of four orbs (usually Terra) is ready to get and it leads me to get Terra orb far earlier than taking care of other orbs. I guess I need to keep Wyvern much more busier

Highscore contest for Fairly tower is very soon to come. Let’s see how high other player’s initial score go.

So far I found:
1. Secret Passage — Does not have to go through the left lane as long as the ball gets into the tower from the left opening. 1st award is an extra ball. It can be easier to shoot the Terra Orb drop targets then bounced ball eventually goes into the tower!
2. Deadly path — Returning from the tower lamp, from the bumper exit, etc…

Holding ball became more difficult.

Wheel Ride Bonus
In the Monster Fair, the only limitless bonus is the “Wheel Ride” bonus which I currently confirmed to go up 2,500 rides (25,040,000 points!) and beyond. Let’s see, if it goes up to 10,000 rides, the total bonus amount would be:
(50,000+100,050,000)/2*10,000=500,500,000,000…
…..Anyway the basic method for quick charging of Wheel Ride is to use same technique above. Just keep shooting center ramp with two balls from left and right flippers. Play with three balls sounds better but they make the ball control even more difficult.

Let’s roll!

With these steps, the only chance to play in single ball is just one show, either Premium tickets show or the Count Dracula show, if you start one of them as the first show after previous opening festival or return voyage. So the best case after opening festival or return voyage should be:

a. Prepare Popcorn multi by leaving one (or two) drop target.
b. Start the Count Dracula show.
c. Start Popcorn multi.
d. Complete the show.
e. Prepare Wheel multi by leaving one drop target for locking 3rd ball.
f. End multi ball.
g. Start Wheel multi and collect 10 tickets.
h. Have fun while in multi ball mode
i. Hit the tent for next (any of multi ball) show.
j. Repeat step d to i above for two more times.
k. Start Premium ticket show.
l. Hold the ball on down-right flipper and wait for time-up (or you can try to complete the show if you want to take a risk).
m. Hit the tent for Opening festival or Return Voyage.

As you see, you can play in multi-ball more than 90% of your play time now.

I want to say good luck with your play but there is no lucky/unlucky thing in the Monster Fair. It is 100% skill oriented game and if you feel unlucky, it means that something in your mind set, physical condition or other factor lets you play like that. So if you feel something is destracting you, you may take rest before trying to get the high-score. Especially, if you want to go bathroom, don’t hold it or it really affects your score.