Pop quiz

If your suggestion implies that it's within the realm of possibility that a cascade might result that would shear the remaining 3 layers that would be left after matching purple, then I'm picking up what you're laying down.

I tend toward the bull in the China shop method of crushing, and in keeping with that opted to try

(For the double hit from the wrapped/creation of another striped/clearing the column to (hopefully) create favorable cascade condition) but even that came up short:

I don't know why but I can't shake the feeling that it was there somewhere...

I appreciate that... my admittedly less forgiving variant on your response to my question goes something like, "well yes, the solution very probably WAS there...; it's just that it was there one or several turns prior... before you (I) made that fatal error which resulted in the unsolvable circumstance that you (I) present."

(Probably why I can't take me anywhere...)🤷

Or to an early grave care of an ulcer, but I guess for some of us things are just meant to end badly. 😉