UK Machine Record
Pirates of the Caribbean
Stern · 2006 · at 5 UK venues.
Stern's Pirates of the Caribbean takes the first three films and turns them into a game centred around Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones and a whole lot of treasure. Dennis Nordman designed the machine, which has become one of Stern's most respected licensed games from the 2000s.
The ship, Kraken and various character shots give it plenty of physical personality, but the real appeal is the way the game combines modes and multiballs. It is a game where understanding what to shoot next makes a huge difference to your score.
It has become a particularly desirable machine in the UK because good examples are not especially easy to find. Don't spend the whole game shooting the ship, know which character you're working towards.
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Guides here are compiled against the machine’s published rules, credited to what they were built from, and dated. That makes them slow: the machines standing on the most UK floors get one first — but anyone who plays this machine can write their own.
Strategy tips written by players on PinTips , not by Silverball. Best-voted first.
When adding balls for Tortuga multiball, short plunge manually to get a good feed instead of having the auto-plunger fire into top lanes
Multiball1 tip
- Multiball
Stack Tortuga multiball with Heart (Chest) multiball and max. jackpot value compass award for big scores
General3 tips
- General
Shoot green stand-ups to light compass award at center shot
- General
Complete parley (upper right sink hole when plunging) to light ball-saver on 1 outlane. Complete again to light both outlanes.
- General
Complete a ship with a broadside and the next ship's sails come down in 1 shot
Skill shot1 tip
- Skill shot
Super skill shot: Light plunge and hit the left Treasure lane. Super duper skill shot if the ball rolls through the right lane afterwards.
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The original flyer
How Pirates of the Caribbean was sold to operators — Stern, 2006. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Stern’s.
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