I just want to throw in my two cents here and say that I hope the tug of war isn't in any of the future games.  I'm having a really hard time getting expert on them and I really just don't like this side game.

On a side note, you can play the tug of war forever and just get lots of points for clearing rows. I think that's how some people are getting those really high scores. Because I was able to score 190,000 points on one of them. As long as you win it adds to your total score. I was able to get expert on all 5 gyms for the tug of war. But this was my second time playing through the game.

Yeah, my score is like 215,000 or something, because of doing that. It feels like cheating, somehow. The tug of war levels should be worth less.

Kind of a mute point playing them though when our scores won't register correctly. I had a new high score today and submitted it but the score board still shows my old score. :-(

Well, I made expert so far on the first three tug of wars. Seems if I try one level per day, I make it!!  Yayyyyy!!!!! Maybe I'll get that expert medal yet. :-)

Pinky,
 
Congrats on the first three.  Only two more to go. Keep going. You can do it.  

how do you get expert on the tug of wars, I have tried and tried and tried and I can't get expert, help please

This post (earlier in this thread) from mrspockfan helped me get expert on the tug of war levels:

[color=#333333; font-family: 'helvetica neue']I finally made it after many tries and a sore hand.  Got the expert medal.  Level 5-11 tug of war game is a killer.   Following up on Ojennifer's hint,  I cleared the board as fast as I could until there are few tiles left.  Then I clicked all the Red tiles to tun them Blue and the Purple tiles to turn them Yellow.  This gives you only two colors (Blue and Yellow) to try and clear the board.  Make sure that your flag is not too close to your team's side when you are working with the remaining tiles, otherwise you win the game and don't get the knockout victory.   Also, make sure that you have at least four tiles of the same color(s), when you are close to clearing the board, otherwise you have to work on the column that is added and change those colors.   Try to slow down the competition by clearing a lot of same color tiles, although they are not slowed for long, it helps. The tiles change color as follows:YellowRedBlue Purple It takes a while to get used to changing the tile color, but keep trying.  Good luck. 

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