Board facts
- Bubbles
- 36
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 3
- Largest group
- 5
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 2,180
Pond #42 opens with a hanging triangle, 36 bubbles spread over 8 rows. Expect 5 colours. The most common colour is kingfisher blue, with 9 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 5 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 #42 with 24 shots, popping 48 bubbles and dropping 12 bubbles, for 2,180 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.