Board facts
- Bubbles
- 48
- Rows
- 8
- Colours
- 6
- Groups ready to pop
- 5
- Largest group
- 12
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 5
Score to beat: 4,210
Pond #69 opens with pillars with gaps between them, 48 bubbles spread over 8 rows. Expect 6 colours. The most common colour is teal, with 15 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 #69 with 19 shots, popping 60 bubbles and dropping 7 bubbles, for 4,210 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.