Board facts
- Bubbles
- 33
- Rows
- 6
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 5
- Largest group
- 7
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 1,770
Pond #31 starts as a hanging triangle: 33 bubbles in 6 rows, using 5 colours. The most common colour is coral, with 9 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 7 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 #31 with 11 shots, popping 37 bubbles and dropping 7 bubbles, for 1,770 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.