Board facts
- Bubbles
- 60
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 5
- Groups ready to pop
- 3
- Largest group
- 28
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 6
Score to beat: 9,430
Pond #45 opens with loose clusters of matching colours, 60 bubbles spread over 8 rows. Expect 5 colours. The most common colour is wattle yellow, with 28 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 28 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 #45 with 12 shots, popping 52 bubbles and dropping 20 bubbles, for 9,430 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Clusters reward patience. Find the small group that links a big cluster to the ceiling and pop that first.