Board facts
- Bubbles
- 60
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 16
- Largest group
- 4
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 2,970
Pond #40 starts as two-by-two colour patches: 60 bubbles in 8 rows, using 5 colours. The most common colour is plum, with 15 bubbles.
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 #40 with 25 shots, popping 70 bubbles and dropping 15 bubbles, for 2,970 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.