Quantum Pinball

Controls

• ← / Z Left flipper
• → / X Right flipper
• Space Hold & release to charge plunger

Mobile

• Use the LEFT / RIGHT buttons under the field for flippers
• Tap and hold the right half of the field to charge, release to plunge
• Tap Nudge to bump the ball (watch for TILT)

Goal

Hit gate targets in the order shown in the current mission panel.

Gates

• H Puts a qubit into superposition
• X Bit flip (quantum NOT gate)
• Y Bit and phase flip combined
• Z Phase flip on |1⟩
• S Phase shift by 90 degrees (pi/2)
• T Phase shift by 45 degrees (pi/4)
• CX CNOT: entangles two qubits

Other elements

• Decoherence target (orange): resets your mission progress, so avoid it
• Bumpers: random scoring, no mission progress
• Top lanes: light all 3 to multiply your score
• Measure target (teal): your multiplier is a superposition of value. Hit it to measure: about 60 percent banks a jackpot of multiplier times 500, about 40 percent collapses your multiplier back to 1x
• Entangled bumpers: a violet beam links two bumpers each ball. Hit one and its partner fires too, just like a CX entangles two qubits

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