Brain Find Level 12

Overview

This level, titled "Where's grandma's glasses?", shows a cozy living-room scene: an elderly grandmother sitting in an armchair, a sleeping white cat lying on a newspaper on the rug, an old television playing, a closed glasses case on the floor, and a ball of yarn by the chair. The bottom preview shows the target: a pair of round glasses. At first the glasses are nowhere to be seen, and the obvious hiding spots (the glasses case, under the cat) look like the answer. The success message, "The glasses were hidden by grandma herself," reveals the real trick: the glasses are on grandma's own person, not in any of the drawers or cases. The core mechanic is interacting with grandma to reveal that she has the glasses on. The overall approach is to rouse the scene — move the cat off the newspaper and bring the paper to grandma so she settles in to read, at which point the glasses she misplaced are revealed on her face.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 2

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look around the room for the glasses. Check the closed glasses case on the floor, look under the sleeping cat, and glance at the TV and yarn ball. The glasses are not in any of these places — they are a distraction.

1. Tap the sleeping cat on the rug to wake it. The cat gets up off the newspaper, and the paper underneath is revealed.

1. Hand the newspaper to grandma (drag/tap the paper toward her). Grandma lifts the newspaper and begins to read.

1. As grandma brings the paper up to read, she puts on her glasses — the pair she had been looking for. The punchline, given by the game, is that the glasses were hidden by grandma herself: she had them on / had misplaced them on her own face the whole time.

1. Tap the glasses on grandma's face to collect them. The game confirms with a "Good" banner and the message "The glasses were hidden by grandma herself," then displays the round glasses enlarged in the center circle. The level is complete.

Strategy & Reasoning

This level is a joke about absent-minded elderly people. Grandparents famously misplace their glasses while wearing them on their heads or faces. The designer fills the room with plausible hiding spots — a glasses case, a sleeping cat, a newspaper — so you waste time searching drawers and floors. The reveal message states directly that grandma herself hid them, which points away from the objects and back to the character.

The reason you must wake the cat and offer the newspaper is that grandma only puts on / reveals her glasses when she has a reason to read. Left idle in her chair, she appears to be squinting without glasses. Once the newspaper is available and she settles in to read, the glasses go on, exposing that they were the missing item all along. The cat on the newspaper is therefore the gate: it must be moved before the newspaper can be used.

Searching the glasses case, the TV, or the yarn ball leads nowhere, because none of them contains the glasses. The solution is entirely about grandma and her reading ritual. This matches the game's recurring theme that the answer is often on the person you least suspect, in plain sight.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: opening or tapping the closed glasses case on the floor. The case is empty; the glasses are not inside it.
• Common mistake: looking under the sleeping cat expecting the glasses to be there. The cat is resting on the newspaper, not guarding the glasses; moving it just frees the paper.
• Common mistake: ignoring grandma and searching the whole room. The glasses were hidden by grandma herself — interact with her and the newspaper, and the glasses appear on her face.