Pool Party

The first Pool Party sets its board at a water park and gives you a companion, Bunni, plus a pool full of things that should not be there. Levels ask you to burst water balloons and clear the unwanted objects out, which makes the goal a tidy-up rather than a score chase.

Two tools separate it from a plain board. The beach ball and the water gun both burst more balloons than an ordinary match, and they arrive often enough that the real decision is when to spend one. Used on a level you would have finished anyway, they are wasted; held for the board where the last object sits in a corner, they are the whole difference.

It is summer-bright throughout and paced for a relaxed session — nothing on screen is counting down, so the tools are the only pressure you are managing.

1. Read which objects the level wants removed from the pool.
2. Swap two neighbouring balloons to burst three or more of a colour.
3. Work towards the unwanted objects rather than the biggest cluster.
4. Save the beach ball and the water gun for the corners your ordinary matches cannot reach.

Objects in corners are the ones that decide these levels. Clear a path towards them early, while the board still has plenty of colours in play, rather than discovering at the end that the only route was through a column you already emptied.