I am posting this warning because a few weeks ago, I caught an unusual jump in the score to beat number after scoring high. I finally caught it doing that again in action this Wednesday, with a photo trail to show for it, since I was determined to ensure there was proof and my eyes weren't deceiving. The machine had previously never applied overscore penalties in the time I've played this game, so I have a feeling this is new and that this is a recent mini-nerf to prevent excessive overscoring + jackpots.

The pictures are in chronological order. Score to beat started at 92, seemingly rarer than usual for this machine in recent weeks. (It's been at 300-400+ every Wednesday for a while.) It went to 112 as normal, then 132, 152, 172... and then suddenly it went WAY up to 274 after my last jackpot! I guess the machine realized what I was doing and jacked up the score to beat, ruining mine and other's future jackpot chances. (And mind you, it let me get away with it for a while as if it was still using old logic of go up 20 points no matter what!)

Floppy Tickets hasn't previously been known to do this, so keep an eye out for unusual boosts in the target score, and be careful if your machine has this update!

Floppy Tickets/Flying Tickets players: Be careful, there might be a new update floating around that causes an overscore penalty to apply in certain cases. (Likely using regular Crossy Road logic. Chronological photo trail provided for proof.)