Brain Blow Level 9
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
A brown mother duck stands alone on the board, and the prompt asks you to find the hiding duckling. No second bird is visible at the start, so the duckling must be concealed on or beside the mother rather than standing in the open. The level responds to a shake gesture rather than a drag: pressing and shaking the mother ducks her chick out from hiding. Once the duckling appears beside her, the puzzle is solved. The mother duck does not need to be relocated, and no other animal appears on the board.
- Difficulty: Regular
- Estimated moves: 1
Step-by-Step Solution
- Look at the mother duck and confirm that no duckling is visible beside her or on the surrounding ground. The empty space around her means the chick is hidden, not merely small or far away.
- Press and hold the mother duck with your finger to grab her, then shake the device back and forth as the gesture requires. The shake mimics ruffling a parent bird to shake loose a tucked-in chick, so keep holding her while you move.
- Keep the shake going briefly until a small yellow duckling drops out beside the mother duck. The duckling appears next to her body once the hiding action triggers, and it stays there instead of wandering off.
- Tap the revealed duckling once it is visible to finish the level. The mother duck itself is not the target, so do not keep shaking after the chick has appeared, and do not tap the adult bird by mistake.
- After the shake settles, keep an eye on the ground beside the mother duck for a few extra moments, because the small duckling can take a beat to slide out from under her feathers. Once it appears, move your tap from the adult bird to the chick so the selection lands on the baby rather than the mother. If the shake does not reveal anything on the first attempt, hold the duck again and repeat the back-and-forth motion before giving up, since the gesture sometimes needs a stronger movement to register.
Strategy & Reasoning
Riddle levels often conceal a small relative on top of a larger character, and a drag across the screen will not expose it here. The intended interaction is a physical shake of the held character, which mirrors the real idea of shaking a bird to see if a chick is tucked underneath. The mother duck stays in place while the chick emerges at her side.
Because the duckling is small and yellow, it can be easy to overlook the moment it appears beside the mother. Watching the ground near her body after the shake is the reliable way to confirm the reveal, and tapping the chick right away avoids accidentally shaking the mother again. The level does not ask you to move the mother to another spot.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Do not drag the mother duck around looking for a hidden chick; the reveal comes from a shake gesture while she is held, not from relocating her.
- Shake firmly but briefly; a single slow movement may not register, but repeated shakes after the duckling appears add nothing.
- Tap the small duckling beside the mother, not the large adult duck, once the chick comes out of hiding.