Board facts
- Bubbles
- 38
- Rows
- 5
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 5
- Largest group
- 10
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 2,950
The bubbles of pond #50 form diagonal colour bands. There are 38 bubbles over 5 rows in 6 colours. kingfisher blue and leaf green share the lead with 10 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 10 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 5 misses before the ceiling drops one row.
Test run
In our test run, a greedy aiming player cleared pond #50 with 8 shots, popping 37 bubbles and dropping 9 bubbles, for 2,950 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Diagonal bands mean every colour touches the next. Work from one side, popping band by band, so the remains fall away together.