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===Save a few dots for last===
===Save a few dots for last===
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Since the ghosts are more likely to clump together and chase Pac-Man later in the stage, it's best to save the power pellets for last.  One of the biggest wastes of a scoring opportunity is to eat a power pellet as the last dot in the stage.  Even if a blue ghost is right by you, you won't get any chance to eat it for points.  If you save a few dots near one of the power pellets, and save that power pellet for last, you can consume it, eat as many ghosts as you can nearby, and quickly finish the stage by consuming the dots you reserved for the end.  Remember that the ghosts immediately reverse direction when you eat the power pellet, so make sure they are as close to you as possible before you eat the pellet, so that you don't have to chase them very far in order to earn valuable points.
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===Bonus fruit===
===Bonus fruit===
Fruits appear just below the ghost pen when you've eaten 70 dots, and once more when you've eaten 170 dots.  And while collecting a 100 point cherry is an enjoyable aspect of playing in the very first board, it's nothing compared to the 5000 point keys that occur later in the game.  Don't risk your life in an effort to collect the lower value fruit if you want to make it to those really valuable bonus items.  To the novice, the bonus fruit are merely point opportunities, but to the expert, they are an indication of the very nature of the stage you're in.  Once you reach the peaches, the stage fruit usually lets you know something about the blue time of the ghosts for that stage.  With the single exception of the grapes, the blue time is always longer throughout the second instance of a fruit than the first.
Fruits appear just below the ghost pen when you've eaten 70 dots, and once more when you've eaten 170 dots.  And while collecting a 100 point cherry is an enjoyable aspect of playing in the very first board, it's nothing compared to the 5000 point keys that occur later in the game.  Don't risk your life in an effort to collect the lower value fruit if you want to make it to those really valuable bonus items.  To the novice, the bonus fruit are merely point opportunities, but to the expert, they are an indication of the very nature of the stage you're in.  Once you reach the peaches, the stage fruit usually lets you know something about the blue time of the ghosts for that stage.  With the single exception of the grapes, the blue time is always longer throughout the second instance of a fruit than the first.
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