Three pucks are waiting at the far end in set-up #542 — one in the 3 zone in the middle, one in the 2 zone on the right and one in the 2 zone in the middle — and four are in your hand.
The one to beat is the puck in the 3 zone in the middle, 11 cm from the far edge. Until one of yours is beyond it, none of yours score.
Playing without aiming error, our Expert computer finished with 12 points; the Medium computer, with its normal error, scored 4.
Decide early between knocking off the deepest puck and drawing past it. If your first slide removes it, the rest of the round is yours to fill.