Board facts
- Bubbles
- 36
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 4
- Groups ready to pop
- 6
- Largest group
- 5
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 7
Score to beat: 2,380
Pond #24 opens with a hanging triangle, 36 bubbles spread over 8 rows. Expect 4 colours. wattle yellow and plum share the lead with 12 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 5 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 #24 with 9 shots, popping 34 bubbles and dropping 11 bubbles, for 2,380 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
A hanging triangle narrows towards the bottom. Bank a shot off the wall into its upper corners, where a pop cuts off the most bubbles.