Board facts
- Bubbles
- 60
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 16
- Largest group
- 4
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 2,620
The bubbles of pond #68 form two-by-two colour patches. There are 60 bubbles over 8 rows in 6 colours. wattle yellow and leaf green share the lead with 14 bubbles each.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 4 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 #68 with 15 shots, popping 67 bubbles and dropping 8 bubbles, for 2,620 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
Patches give ready-made pairs. Add one bubble to a two-by-two patch and four or more pop together, which keeps the miss dots full.