Daily Diamond Challenge 3 April 20, 2021 - Empires and Puzzles

Yesterday's Empires and Puzzles Daily Diamond Challenge problem: 

And my solution: 

Make the yellow match in the middle column to bring up the red tile to the second row. Follow it up by making the purple dragon bomb in the bottom row. Boom, there's your diamond. 

There are a few other things I want to point out. In the original image, I was anticipating making the purple match in the bottom left corner to make the diamond—in fact, that's the match I saw at first when I saw the red diamond. The risk in making that move, however, is that a red tile comes up to make a three-match and end up ruining the diamond you're trying to create. 

In the same vein, it's possible to make the blue match toward the middle of the board and bring up the purple tiles to create a combo. Again, however, there's a risk in having those reds taken out by an extra red tile to create a three-match.

I lucked out in this instance by having a purple tile come up after the yellow match. Making the purple dragon bomb instead of my original match locks that column up, so there's no risk of those red tiles getting matched off the board and ruining the diamond. 

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A few others have mentioned an alternative solution: Match the purples on the right side, and you're set up for a yellow diamond in the next move. Nice job, viewers! 

I've stripped these boards from context because 1) when I saw Empires and Puzzles Books on Youtube do these kinds of videos, it was kind of obvious what colors you're looking for a diamond on, so it made the challenge a bit easier and 2) as can be seen in today's answers, there can sometimes be more than one solution! Hopefully, these will train you to see the boards differently and be able to spot diamonds more than one move away. 

As for this board: I took a mono red team, so I was heavily invested in making that red diamond!

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Today's problem: 

Solution tomorrow.