What are the water bubbles for?

dbergum

Just wondering what the water bubbles are for? I noticed there are so many moves for each one b4 i think they explode and I think they take away some of my moves is this correct?  and Why is Alpha Betty sorta different from the app on my phone?  I got the hammer on my lap top but not on my phone.

StuckInATree

They act like candy bombs in candy crush, except that if one reaches down to 0, it will take away a move from you rather than finish the round, so it's important that you try to combine the tile in word in order to destroy the bomb before it blows! 

In short, it's because the are two different platforms. Quite a lot of  games tend to have slight variations depending on which one you play on. For facebook and king.com it's known "Canvas" platform, and the rest is for ''Mobile' platform. It's also why Facebook and king have the latest levels and then mobile get updates afterwards.