Pond Pop · Pond #60

Pond #60 opens with diagonal colour bands, 53 bubbles spread over 7 rows. Expect 6 colours. The most common colour is wattle yellow, with 14 bubbles.

The largest connected group of one colour already holds 14 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 #60 with 5 shots, popping 50 bubbles and dropping 8 bubbles, for 4,970 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.