How the table is laid out
A diamond of 4 pop bumpers fills the top: cyan, coral, yellow and cyan. The LIFT ramp climbs the left side and a drop-target bank sits on the left of the mid-field.
Coloured rings: cyan and yellow in the lower centre and coral on the middle right. The big bubbles all have one shell and spread over the board: coral on the upper left, cyan on the middle left, coral on the middle right, yellow in the lower centre and cyan on the lower right.
A curtain from the top lowers a garland-shaped cluster and two column-shaped clusters of small bubbles, each hanging from its own gold-ring anchor, with two clock bubbles (+5 s each). The opening storm is only for show and does not change the rules.
The objective
CLEAN SWEEP: pop every big bubble and all three clusters before the clock runs out, in any order. One matching hit pops each big bubble; wrong colours bounce. Paint the ball in a top lane (flippers rotate them), a ring, LIFT or with the two-flipper swap. Pop an anchor to drop its cluster.
Strategy, step by step
- With single-shell bubbles everywhere, route by colour: sweep the two cyan bubbles (middle left and lower right) together, then both coral ones (upper left and middle right).
- Bubble Storm parks its coral port beside the coral target on the middle right; brush past the port and the rebound can burst that target at once.
- The coral bubble on the upper left is the hardest shot. Climb LIFT: it paints a colour you can use and drops the ball high on the left side.
- Grab both clock bubbles early; the two +5 s bonuses buy room for the QUICK star on this spread-out board.
- Each column hangs from an anchor at its top. Pop the anchors of both columns and the garland to clear most of the small bubbles fast.
How to get 3 stars
QUICK: end with at least a quarter of the clock left. NO BALL LOST: no drains (a drain costs 5 seconds). WHOLE CLUSTER: pop the gold-ring anchor of the garland or either column. The two clock bubbles are the key to QUICK on this wide board.
Common mistakes
- On Bubble Storm, watching the opening shower instead of the plunger; the clock is already running when the falling bubbles settle.
- Swapping colour after every pop. Plan routes by colour so each charge pops two or three things.
- Leaving the upper-left coral bubble for last, when the clock is tight and the long shot is hardest.