Board facts
- Bubbles
- 52
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 4
- Groups ready to pop
- 7
- Largest group
- 12
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 7
Score to beat: 3,510
The bubbles of pond #23 form clusters with holes punched in them. There are 52 bubbles over 8 rows in 4 colours. The most common colour is plum, with 19 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 12 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 #23 with 11 shots, popping 39 bubbles and dropping 24 bubbles, for 3,510 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
The holes are shortcuts. Shots can slip through them to reach bubbles that hold up the rest of the cluster.