I have had some testing and found players have been playing near the top of the board most of the time early on. To combat this I have changed how bombs work so they now explode vertically to start instead of horizontally before and then cause a chain reaction if there's more than one bomb on the same column check out the video below to see:
https://youtu.be/kO0bvqhkuUQ
Changes to how bombs work
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