Cannon Smash Playground coins and extra shots, explained

How you earn coins

The coin system in Cannon Smash Playground is deliberately small. There is one way to earn: win a level. Every win pays 15 coins, no matter which level it is.

When a rewarded ad is available after a win, it can double that reward. Watching is always optional, and the game works the same if you skip it. The ad is a bonus on top of a win, not a requirement for moving on.

Because the reward comes only from winning, coins are a measure of how many boards you have cleared. There is no daily login pay-out to catch up on and nothing to buy that you could miss.

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What the 200 coins are for

Coins have one main use: extra shots. Every level gives you a fixed number of cannon shots, shown on the Shoots counter, and you have to knock every target off its stand before it reaches zero. When it does and the board is not clear, the Out of moves screen appears.

On that screen, 200 coins buy three more shots for the current attempt. You keep the board as it is, so the pieces you already knocked off stay off, and you carry on from where you were. Three shots are often enough to finish a board that was one or two pieces short.

The extra shots apply to that attempt only. If you restart the level, you begin again with the normal number of shots on a fresh board.

Getting more shots without coins

If you have fewer than 200 coins, the Out of moves screen does not leave you stuck. When a rewarded ad is available, it offers the same three extra shots for watching it. So low coins do not mean you have to restart a board that was nearly done.

The offer depends on an ad being available at that moment, so it is not guaranteed every time. If none is available, the choices are to restart the level or try the shots again from a clean board. Restarting is always possible with the restart button.

A practical habit follows from this: treat 200 coins as a reserve. Thirteen wins add up to 195 coins, so after about fourteen wins you have enough for one rescue. Spending them on a board that is almost cleared is worth more than spending them on a restart, because the extra shots start from the progress you have already made.

How many levels there are

The campaign has 500 levels. The first 160 rebuild the same set of pieces into new symmetric constructions, which gives you time to learn how jars, cans, crates, stone and ice behave. Later levels combine those pieces into larger layouts across several tables.

Difficulty rises in short waves, with a gentler level after every five. A hard board is always followed by something easier, so a stuck level does not turn into a long run of hard ones.

Alongside the campaign there is a separate daily puzzle. It is a level selected by the date, and it does not touch your campaign progress. If you want one extra board for the day, it is there, and if you skip it nothing is lost.

Where your progress is saved

Level progress and coins are saved in your browser, so you can close the tab and come back to the same level on the same device. If you sign in on crokocat, they travel with your account instead, which is the way to keep them if you play from more than one device.

Clearing your browser data removes progress that is saved in the browser only. If you care about a long run through the 500 levels, signing in is the safer choice.

Cannon Smash Playground is free, runs in the browser on desktop, phone and tablet, and needs no download or sign-up to start. It is an independent crokocat game, not affiliated with any other cannon puzzle.

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