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: 2,580
The bubbles of pond #41 form two-by-two colour patches. There are 60 bubbles over 8 rows in 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 #41 with 22 shots, popping 73 bubbles and dropping 9 bubbles, for 2,580 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.