Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 9)/@comment-27554970-20161023074330

So here we go.

I'm calling this the rule of 5. Get to boss 5 at least once, but after that, if you think it is going to take 5 or more runs to beat the next boss, then it is better to quit the next race before the green lights, abort the run, and start over. You just don't make any more points until you get all the way to boss 8.

Boss 4 isn't as good as Boss 5, but it does help some. You're going to want your first 3 or 4 runs to be boss 4 or 5.

After that, you can go for boss 2 or 3, but you're really only saving 2 or 4 tickets. They don't pay any more points then boss 1 runs do, and if you have to retry more than twice, they are actually slower, clock time, then repeating boss 1 runs forever.

Look at the numbers:

Boss 1 through 3 pay around 8,000 points.

Boss 4 pays 11,550.

Boss 5 pays over 15,000 points.

It takes until Boss 8 to get to 20,000 points, and that's hard enough that most of us won't get there.

But a Boss 5 run is worth a bit over 50,000 points all told, so we only need 5 of them. By quitting race 22 before the lights turn green and starting over, it will take 214 tickets to do those 5 runs. We get 307 tickets. That should be enough to let us do shorter runs and win the car without upgrading or watching videos.