Board facts
- Bubbles
- 30
- Rows
- 5
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 1
- Largest group
- 3
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 1,390
Pond #51 opens with a hanging triangle, 30 bubbles spread over 5 rows. Expect 6 colours. The most common colour is leaf green, with 8 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 3 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 #51 with 33 shots, popping 60 bubbles and dropping 3 bubbles, for 1,390 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.