Board facts
- Bubbles
- 60
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 4
- Groups ready to pop
- 7
- Largest group
- 15
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 7
Score to beat: 5,320
The bubbles of pond #17 form diagonal colour bands. There are 60 bubbles over 8 rows in 4 colours. coral and teal share the lead with 15 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 15 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 #17 with 4 shots, popping 40 bubbles and dropping 24 bubbles, for 5,320 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Diagonal bands mean every colour touches the next. Work from one side, popping band by band, so the remains fall away together.