Board facts
- Bubbles
- 43
- Rows
- 7
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 4
- Largest group
- 12
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 3,500
Pond #54 opens with pillars with gaps between them, 43 bubbles spread over 7 rows. Expect 6 colours. The most common colour is coral, with 14 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 12 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 #54 with 10 shots, popping 39 bubbles and dropping 14 bubbles, for 3,500 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Pillars leave open lanes. Shoot straight up a lane to reach the ceiling row and cut whole pillars loose at their top.