Completing Flash Element TD, a game covered here a few days ago, is no great task; it might take several tries to get there, but blanketing the screen with combo rockets on level 39 does the trick and might leave you with a nice 13,000 points.

Strategy and Tips

But you will not get on the high score list, not even close. High scores depend on using compounding interest to build your fortunes. Once you have the gold, you can keep buying more lives, upgrading towers, whatever you need.

Walkthrough

Let’s walk through a basic route to 100K points or more. As you’ll see, the placement is not perfect and upgrades are not optimized. Had they been, the score would be better. Regardless, it will give you something on which to build your scores.

The screenshots were taken from a couple different runs through this walkthrough, so the exact placement of towers may shift from shot to shot, but the basic premise is the same. Tune to your liking.

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