Board facts
- Bubbles
- 33
- Rows
- 6
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 2
- Largest group
- 6
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 1,560
Pond #52 starts as a hanging triangle: 33 bubbles in 6 rows, using 6 colours. The most common colour is coral, with 8 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 6 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 #52 with 20 shots, popping 47 bubbles and dropping 6 bubbles, for 1,560 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.