Perfect Clearance achievement in Thrillville: Off the Rails

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If your terrible at pool as I am, a fast way I found to get this is to set up a Party Play - Easy - Nineball game and try to sink the 9 ball on the break. You will automatically win and the achievement will pop.

Another way if you don't sink the 9 ball on your break but you sank any other ball so it's still your turn. Try to combo the 9 in on your next shot. You will need to hit the next sequential ball into the 9 and sink it. This will give you the win and the achievement as long as the AI doesn't get a turn.

You can use the combo method even if the AI gets the break, if you miss any of the three above, just quit out and start over. It took me roughly 20 minutes to get the achievement this way.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

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this took me about 45 minutes so id say u should get this achievement in under an hour. its all about luck. nice solution thanks alot

Posted by NastyMastaDaddy on 25 Jan 11 at 07:26

This didn't work for me.

Twice, I combo'ed the 9 ball after my opponent's break but it didn't pop. I got it after running the table after my opponents break.

Posted by Johnny Skillz on 17 Feb 11 at 05:34

@ Johnny Skillz: Make sure you get the break and not your opponent. If you start the game and your opponent gets the break, quit out and start over until you get the break. Sink the 9 ball on the break or combo it in your next shot.

Posted by The Fury I84I on 03 Mar 11 at 22:24

Not sure if an exact shot will always result in the 9 ball going down. I managed it by hitting the 1 ball at the front and slightly to the right of the default shot. The 9 ball bounced off the back cushion and went down the table in to the front left pocket. The shot was full power.

Posted by Flopsy86 on 02 Apr 12 at 01:04

Flopsy I just got the achievement FIRST time using your method. I potted FIVE balls in one shot aiming slightly to the right of the 1.
Thanks!

Posted by Jenova20 on 06 May 13 at 21:49

Holy crap that was easy! I got it first try. Thanks for the help!

Posted by GodLike499 on 13 Aug 17 at 17:06

This is completely rng based and will take you at least 2 hours. Any person claiming, they "got this in one try" is a filthy liar. I've already sunk an hour into this and haven't even sunk four balls let alone get the nine in by itself on the first shot. For one the AI gets to shoot first 60% of the time. Second there's a 50% chance you won't pocket a single ball on your break shot. Meaning you have to restart, every time you restart you have to go back to the party screen and scroll down again to pick the game which wastes time. Third due to RNG placement you then have to sink all the balls because the nine ball rarely if ever leaves the center. This isn't 20 minutes this isn't an hour it's far longer and I'm frankly amazed t how much these commenters are lying. I got the achievement after a single game where I was able to sink all balls and it was extremely lucky.

Posted by My Ringtones on 19 Dec 21 at 04:00

I found that if you spam the A button after exiting the mini-game the game loads up Pool again, instead of having you scroll halfway down the list to pick it. Don't spam too much though, you don't want to launch it with the default settings (Normal difficulty, 8 Ball).

Playing the backwards compat version on XSX which may or may not matter.

Posted by Healtti on 03 Jul at 21:50

Flopsy's method worked for me on the 1st try as well, moved the ball a little to the right and just fired it, didn't even notice which one was the 9 ball but only one went in and it was 9

Posted by GsO Light on 11 Jul at 03:13

Took a couple tries but got it exactly the way you described. Thanks!

Posted by TheAwsomeTaco13 on 21 Jul at 19:59

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