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There are 5 colors and 4 lanes. I think the best strategy would be to assign colors to 3 of the lanes and use the 4th as a discard. Here are some rules you can use to make the decision, and my best guess at their prioritization:

1. If a lane already has 2 matching bubbles, it is assigned that color.

2. From the 7 colors in the queue there should be 2 or 3 most popular colors. Make sure these colors have lanes assigned to them, but don’t allow the longest lane to be the discard.

3. If there are two lanes with the same color, use the shorter of them as the discard.

Since the progression of the game doesn’t depend on previous states, there should be no reason to retain any information other than the current state, but I think the best strategy would be one that tends to not defeat previous decisions. If you find that this keeps happening, there’s probably an adjustment to be made.