Board facts
- Bubbles
- 45
- Rows
- 6
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 12
- Largest group
- 4
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 1,700
Pond #27 opens with two-by-two colour patches, 45 bubbles spread over 6 rows. Expect 5 colours. coral and plum share the lead with 11 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 4 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 #27 with 12 shots, popping 48 bubbles and dropping 9 bubbles, for 1,700 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Patches give ready-made pairs. Add one bubble to a two-by-two patch and four or more pop together, which keeps the miss dots full.