Board facts
- Bubbles
- 37
- Rows
- 6
- Colours
- 4
- Groups ready to pop
- 5
- Largest group
- 11
- Misses before the ceiling drops
- 7
Score to beat: 2,960
Pond #9 opens with clusters with holes punched in them, 37 bubbles spread over 6 rows. Expect 4 colours. The most common colour is teal, with 13 bubbles.
The largest connected group of one colour already holds 11 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 7 misses before the ceiling drops one row.
Test run
In our test run, a greedy aiming player cleared pond #9 with 4 shots, popping 32 bubbles and dropping 9 bubbles, for 2,960 points. It never plans two shots ahead, so the score is there to be beaten.
How to approach it
The holes are shortcuts. Shots can slip through them to reach bubbles that hold up the rest of the cluster.