Board facts
- Bubbles
- 43
- Rows
- 7
- Colours
- 4
- Groups ready to pop
- 3
- Largest group
- 14
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 7
Score to beat: 4,710
Pond #13 starts as pillars with gaps between them: 43 bubbles in 7 rows, using 4 colours. The most common colour is coral, with 16 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 14 bubbles, and the whole top row hangs straight from the ceiling: cut through a stem up there and everything below it falls for double points. On this difficulty you have 7 misses before the ceiling drops one row.
Test run
In our test run, a greedy aiming player cleared pond #13 with 7 shots, popping 43 bubbles and dropping 7 bubbles, for 4,710 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Pillars leave open lanes. Shoot straight up a lane to reach the ceiling row and cut whole pillars loose at their top.