Brain Find Level 1

Overview

Level 1, subtitled "Which one is orange?", is the very first riddle of the game and immediately teaches the player the series' core lesson: stop trusting what is obvious. The screen shows four large fruits arranged around the middle — a bunch of purple grapes in the upper left, a red apple in the upper right, a yellow pear in the lower left, and a green striped watermelon in the lower right. At the very bottom of the screen, tucked into a small circle, sits a tiny orange that most players completely overlook. The core mechanic of this level is visual misdirection: the four big fruits are all decoys whose colors (purple, red, yellow, green) are deliberately chosen so that none of them is actually orange. The overall approach is to ignore the four obvious fruits and recognize that the real orange is the small one hiding at the bottom of the screen in plain sight.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the question at the top of the screen: "Which one is orange?". Before tapping anything, scan every object on the display and check its actual color rather than its name. Notice the four large fruits: the grapes are purple, the apple is red, the pear is yellow, and the watermelon is green. None of them is orange, no matter how long you stare at them.

1. Resist the urge to tap the apple. Because the apple is warm reddish-orange, many players assume it must be the intended answer, but it is clearly a shade of red. Tapping it does nothing useful and only confirms that the four big fruits are not the answer.

1. Look past the four big fruits toward the bottom of the screen, below the yellow pear and the watermelon. There, centered near the bottom edge inside a small outlined circle, you will see a tiny orange with a little green leaf. This is the only object on the entire screen that is actually colored orange.

1. Tap that small orange at the bottom of the screen directly. Because it is small and positioned low, players habitually focus on the four large fruits and never notice it, but tapping it is exactly what the level asks for.

1. The moment you tap it, the game confirms the solution. An orange "Good" banner appears with the message "You found it! Awesome!", and the small orange is enlarged and shown in a large circle in the center of the screen as the collected item. The level is complete.

Strategy & Reasoning

This level is a classic "hidden in plain sight" puzzle designed to retrain your attention. The surface-level reading suggests a simple color-recognition task: look at the four fruits and pick the one that is orange. The designer reinforces this expectation by making the four fruits large, colorful, and centrally placed, so the player naturally assumes one of them must be correct. The trap is that all four colors are chosen specifically to be close-but-not-quite orange, and the apple in particular is warm enough that players waste time on it.

The intended solution flips this expectation: the answer is not among the prominent objects at all. By placing the real orange at the very bottom of the screen and shrinking it down to a small icon, the game tests whether the player actually scans the whole display instead of solving by assumption. Once you notice the bottom orange, the riddle becomes trivial — there is literally only one orange-colored thing on screen.

Alternative approaches fail for obvious reasons. Tapping the purple grapes, the red apple, the yellow pear, or the green watermelon never advances the level, because none of them matches the requested color. Dragging the fruits around does not reveal a hidden orange beneath them, since the orange was never covered in the first place. The trick is purely perceptual: the answer was visible from the very first frame, and success comes from noticing the object you were trained to ignore.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: tapping the red apple because its warm color seems close to orange. The apple is unambiguously red, not orange. The correct answer is the small orange tucked at the bottom of the screen.
• Common mistake: focusing only on the four large fruits in the center. Because they are big and obvious, players forget to scan the bottom edge. The correct habit is to check every corner and edge of the screen before concluding an object is missing.
• Common mistake: assuming the answer has to be one of the four named fruits. The level's whole point is that the "which one" refers to the only truly orange object, which happens to be the tiny icon at the bottom, not any of the four main fruits.