Board facts
- Bubbles
- 30
- Rows
- 5
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 2
- Largest group
- 3
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 1,360
The bubbles of pond #26 form a hanging triangle. There are 30 bubbles over 5 rows in 5 colours. wattle yellow and plum share the lead with 8 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 3 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 6 misses before the ceiling drops one row.
Test run
In our test run, a greedy aiming player cleared pond #26 with 27 shots, popping 50 bubbles and dropping 7 bubbles, for 1,360 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.