Board facts
- Bubbles
- 35
- Rows
- 7
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 5
- Largest group
- 3
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 1,620
Pond #57 opens with a hanging triangle, 35 bubbles spread over 7 rows. Expect 6 colours. teal and leaf green share the lead with 10 bubbles each.
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 #57 with 28 shots, popping 58 bubbles and dropping 5 bubbles, for 1,620 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.