Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza is a Tournament Edition event – a limited-time competitive designed to answer one simple question:
Who is the world’s best Dingleberry Blitz player?
The standard game has been modified to ensure every player competes under the most consistent conditions possible. Your best single session score goes on the leaderboard. One great session is all it takes.
If you’re new to Tournament Edition, the full format breakdown is in the Tournament Edition: Arcade Online’s Most Competitive Format guide. If you haven’t played Dingleberry Blitz before, get a head start in our How to play Dingleberry Blitz – Tips and Tricks guide.
Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza Objective
In standard Dingleberry Blitz, the goal is to merge your way to a KingleBerry, triggering the Superbonus – the biggest single reward in the game. Juice is a bonus mechanic – a mini reward for a Blitz event, not the main objective.
In Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza, that relationship is inverted.
This TE leaderboard ranks players on a single metric: the most Juice produced in a single Blitz. You still earn tickets from merges, and you still want Kingleberries – but they don’t determine your leaderboard position – your Blitz does. Everything about how you approach a Bonanza session should be built around producing the biggest single Blitz you can.
How Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza Works
This Blitz Bonanza TE runs for four days, alongside the standard version of Dingleberry Blitz – both are available to play, and they have separate leaderboards. Juice earned in standard play does not contribute to the Blitz Bonanza leaderboard.
Your highest individual Blitz Juice score is entered onto the Blitz Bonanza leaderboard automatically. Play as many sessions as you like, but remember – only your best Blitz counts. The Leaderboard is stacked with significant Token prizes for the top positions. Check the platform for current reward values.
A few things that carry across both versions during the event:
- Dingleberry Battle runs as normal. Kingleberries, Thingleberries, and Shingleberries from both TE and standard play contribute to the Battle leaderboard.
- XD Elements earned in TE count toward Dingleberry Blitz XD Challenges and Tasks.
- XP earned in TE counts toward Dingleberry Blitz Tasks.
What’s Different in Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza
The Blitz Bonanza TE configuration changes several things about how your Dingleberry Blitz session is scored. Understanding these changes could be the difference between a good session and a top leaderboard score.
The Blitz Line Moves to the Top
In standard Dingleberry Blitz, the Blitz Line sits roughly a third of the way up the playfield. When a Blitz is triggered, all Berries above that line remain in play.
In Blitz Bonanza, the Blitz Line has moved to the top of the playfield, in line with the Blitz Trigger. When triggered, every Berry on or below that line is Blitzed into Juice.
In practice, that means the entire playfield Blitzes. Every Berry on the playfield contributes to your Juice score.
This is the defining change of this TE format. In standard play, a Blitz clears the bottom third and hands the board back to you. In Blitz Bonanza, a Blitz ends the session and produces your score.
The Playfield Resets Between Sessions
Because a Blitz ends the run, the playfield resets completely for the next one. Any Berries that didn’t Blitz – anything above the Blitz Line at the moment of trigger – don’t carry over. Each session starts fresh.
Every Run Starts the Same Way
To ensure fair conditions across all plays, every Blitz Bonanza run begins with the same starting berries on the playfield, and the first four berries dropped are identical for every player. Starting positions of berries vary slightly between sessions, giving players the opportunity to choose a playfield they find advantageous.
Two Ways to Trigger a Blitz
In Blitz Bonanza, a Blitz can be triggered in two ways: the standard method – a Berry crosses the Blitz Trigger Line and the timer expires – or by running out of Berries. If you exhaust your Berries, a countdown begins. Credit the game before it reaches zero to continue your run. Let it expire and the Blitz triggers.
This gives players a way to end a run early if it’s not going well – if you’ve made an early mistake and the run isn’t salvageable, letting the Blitz trigger clears the board so you can start again – rather than continuing to invest in a run unlikely to post a competitive score.
Merge Chain Bonuses Are Off
In standard play, Merge Chains award incremental bonus tickets on top of the base merge value. In Blitz Bonanza, that bonus is disabled. The Juice jug Mini Bonus tickets are also disabled.
Importantly, Berry ticket values from merges are unchanged, and remain the greatest source of tickets.
Juice Values Have Been Rebalanced
Some Berry Juice values have been adjusted to make merging into bigger berries more advantageous. The specific values are in the How to Play – but the principle is straightforward: in Blitz Bonanza, bigger berries are worth more Juice than in standard play. Merging up is always the right call.
Dingleberry Blitz Bonanza Strategy
How to Post a High Score
Blitz Bonanza rewards a strategic mindset beyond just merging up to a Kingleberry.
Berry Jam
A Kingleberry produces the most Juice of any Berry, but the best players will utilize the full-playfield Blitz mechanic and cram in as many big Berries in as possible. Merging a Kingleberry is a big win, but make sure it’s in a position that leaves enough space for friends.
Big Berries at the Bottom
The core strategy from standard play applies here with even greater urgency. Large Berries low on the playfield almost always result in more Juice when the Blitz triggers.
Merge Chains Are Still a Great Tool
Merge chain bonuses are disabled in Bonanza, but the chains themselves are still a great way to build large berries efficiently. A well-executed chain builds large berries efficiently and keeps them low – which is precisely what Bonanza rewards.
Choose Your Starting Playfield
Because starting Berry positions vary slightly between player positions, take a moment to assess the playfield before committing.
Know When to End a Run
In a standard game, if the playfield becomes disorganized early you can Blitz the Berries at the bottom to clean things up. That tactic doesn’t apply here. If you have large berries near the top, small berries blocking merges at the bottom – the run is unlikely to produce a competitive Juice score. Exhaust your Berry count, let the Blitz trigger, and start fresh. A clean reset is more valuable than continuing to build on a compromised foundation.
A Note on Standard Dingleberry Blitz
The standard version of Dingleberry Blitz remains available throughout the Blitz Bonanza TE event with its usual configuration. Standard play has its own leaderboard, and Juice from standard sessions does not contribute to the Blitz Bonanza leaderboard. If you’re still learning the game, the How to Play guide and replays are the best place to come up to speed.
Bonanza Results
Check back here after the Bonanza ends for the final leaderboard, top scores, and winner highlights.