Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza (Circus)

This mini-game has been rated as Low Risk. See the Mini-Games page for a definition of high and low risk.

Introduction

Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza is an amazing three act circus that stars YOU as the performer! You will show off your agility, magic and range skills before an admiring audience. Perform emotes and wear outrageous outfits to boost your showmanship. Your rewards will include experience points and circus costumes!

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Basics

Location. The circus moves each week, but the site is the same across all worlds. Just like in medieval times, word spreads quickly! Ask a friend, or find a Circus Barker (a fairy) near a bank in most major towns (such as Seers Village, Falador east bank, Ardougne east bank, Varrock east bank, Lumbridge, etc) who will tell you where tickets are currently offered.

The hints they give will be brief and sometimes the location is only near a town, not within one. A description of each location, along with a map, is shown below. The locations rotate in a fixed order, shown by reading across the table.

Location	Map	Location	Map
Seers Village On the road to Hemenster, south of the pub.		Catherby Just west of the town's allotment patches.
Taverly West of the Witch's House and north-west of the house portal.		Edgeville Across the river Lum, near the bridge.
Falador South-east of the Mining Guild.		Rimmington North-west of town, near the house portal.
Draynor South of the village, near the bridge to the Wizards' Tower.		Al Kharid South of the Duel Arena entrance, near the cactus patch.
Lumbridge West of the castle, near the tree patch.		East of Varrock South of the Lumberyard near the Earth altar.
West of Varrock South of the Grand Exchange, near the Cooking Guild.		Gnome Stronghold West of the main gates, outside the Stronghold.

The location is marked on your minimap by a yellow asterisk. The Ticket vendor is a bobbing box surrounded by velvet ropes - click it to get your circus ticket and be transported to the centre ring!

Skills. There are *no requirements* to star in the circus. Skill levels shown in the game are only recommendations, they are not absolute. However, Jagex states that higher skill levels will make it possible to earn better rewards.

Equipment. You do not need to bring anything to perform at the circus - all equipment is provided. However, Jagex states that costumes will excite the audience, leading to better rewards.

Starting an Act. Speak to the assistant near the act, then collect your equipment from the box nearby.

Limits. You can only attempt each act once a week. Once you speak to the assistant to start, you are committed. Leaving forfeits your chance at that act for the week.

Note. Liven up your act by performing ordinary emotes between your skill displays. The fans do not like repetition, so be sure to vary your choices.

Exit. You can leave the circus by clicking your ticket to tear it, or use the Destroy option. You can always get another ticket from the ticket vendor and re-enter the circus.

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Magic Show

The magic show occupies three corners of the big top: north-east, north-west, and south-east. The chest supplies teleport, levitation, alchemy and elemental tablets. You will perform ten spells during the show, but you can take as many spell tablets as you like in order to mix up your act to please the crowd. The tablets will disappear at the end of the show.

Alchemy	Elemental	Levitation	Teleport

Each corner allows different types of spells, and each has five objects of ascending skill difficulties. Do emotes in between spells to enliven your show.

North-East Alchemy/Teleportation (Hardest)
Object	Picture	Skill
Stool		70
Assistant		90
Anvil		99
Armour		60
Dumb-bells		80

North-West Elemental
Object	Picture	Skill
Book		10
Helm		30
Armour		50
Shield		40
Tree Stump		20

South-East Levitation
Object	Picture	Skill
Cat		20
Penguin		40
Ork		50
Bowl		30
Rat		10

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Ranged Display

The ranged display occupies the remaining (south-west) corner of the big top. There are two parts to the ranged display: a duck gallery (popinjays) and a spinning wheel with a live target!

The chest supplies a performance bow, knives, throwing axes, and arrows. Five shots are required on each target. You can only use one type of weapon for the five shots on the spinning target, but you can switch to another weapon (or use the same type) for the duck gallery.

Choose the skill difficulty of your shot by clicking on a star or a duck on the ground (the stars point you towards the spinning target, the ducks towards the "popinjays"). Your character will immediately walk to that mark and take a shot. Most players alternate between the target and the popinjays. Do emotes in between shots to enliven your show.

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Tightrope (Agility)

The tightrope is strung over the top of the centre ring, so naturally you must climb up to it. First, go to the southern pole and into the changing room, where you will automatically don the "safety" acrobat costume. Do not worry about performing high above the ground - you DO NOT FALL nor take damage in this event.

Speak to the assistant, who will provide you with a Tightrope 101 booklet. You can read it to see what special acrobat emotes you can use during your act. When you are on the wire, you can use the special Acrobat emote menu (it's a tab on your control panel), or select your acrobat emote from the book.

The chest supplies a choice of juggling items, and you are allowed to choose as many as you like. Juggling is just one of the many emotes you can choose, but each juggling item has a different difficulty. After you click the juggle emote, you must click on a juggling item in your pack to select it.

You will perform ten acrobat emotes during your show. Most players alternate between a juggling move and a tightrope move. You should also liven up your performance by doing regular emotes in between your moves.

Tightrope Act
Emote	Pic	Skill Level
Small Hop		10
One-leg Balance		20
Twirl		30
Handstand		40
Cartwheel		50
Small Leap		60
No-hand Cartwheel		70
Forward Roll		80
Large Leap		90
Backflip		99

Juggle
Object	Skill Level	Pic
Balls	10
Plates	20
Eggs	30
Knives	40
Spades	50
Tuna	60
Soap	70
Cannonballs	80
Torches	90
Chinchompas	99

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Rewards

You receive experience after every individual skill action that you perform, ranging anywhere from 0 xp to over 2500 xp each! At the end of each act the assistant will tell you your score and give you a clothing item. The better your score, the better type of item you will receive.

Costume Rewards
Score	Type	Pictures
		Male	Female
1 - 500 Audience Costumes	Hat
	Top
	Legs/Skirt
	Shoes
	Hand souvenir
501 - 1000	Acrobat Costumes
1001 - 1200	Clown Costume
1201+	Ringmaster Costume

If you lose your circus reward items, speak to the Ringmaster and he will replace them, free of charge.

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Tips and Tricks

• Do emotes in between your skill displays. Each emote is worth 3 points.
• You CAN and SHOULD attempt acts that are above your skill range, because succeeding at them improves your score. A player with 73 agility can successfully perform 99 agility displays most of the time.
• Players report that wearing related skill-boosting gear (ranged, magic, or weight-reduction for agility) and sipping a skill boosting potion (or eating summer pie) improves performance.
• Performing only 99 and 90 level displays (alternating, and doing emotes in between), if successful, gives the best chance for a ringmaster costume reward.
• Jagex states that obeying audience requests increases their satisfaction and thus your score. However, their requests always include low skill-level displays, which do *not* improve your score and will thus ruin your chance for higher level costume items.
• Skill cape emotes do not seem to affect audience.
• Jagex states that wearing your costumes increases audience satisfaction. Any circus item that you wear for a performance will add 5 points to everything you do, so you can get a maximum of 25 points added to every emote and trick. (So if you emote with a full costume of 5 circus items, you will get 28 points instead of just 3!)
• Jagex states that different audiences (in different towns where the circus plays) will prefer different things. The only two preferences currently known are that the Edgeville range spectators prefer the Trick emote, and Draynor spectators prefer the Alchemy Dumbbells trick. These each add an extra 75 points for that action!

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Credits

Author: pokemama

Special Thanks to: Siobhana, halo2_rocks7, the49ronin, Cowman_133, tryto, Headnazgul, Georgelemmons, Mattie9999, acenator, SportsGuy, frigginacky

Correction Thanks: o_knames, Luud, jaa_master, darkblade986, chad197, kingmickez25, Psycho_Robot

Last Updated By: Georgelemmons

Last updated: 6-Jan-2010