Brain Find Level 4

Overview

Level 4, subtitled "Give me a banana," presents two unrelated yellow objects on a blank white screen: a baseball glove on the upper right and what looks like a caulking/syringe gun on the lower left. At the bottom, a small circle previews the target item — a yellow banana with a stem. Neither visible object is a banana, which is the first clue that something is concealed rather than missing. The level's success message, "Seeing is not always believing. Look for it carefully," confirms that one of the objects is covering the answer. The core mechanic is dragging obstacles away to uncover a hidden item. The overall approach is to treat the glove and the caulk gun as movable covers rather than as the answer, slide them aside, and collect the banana that was underneath.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 2

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the two objects on screen and the target preview at the bottom. The preview shows a banana. The baseball glove and the caulk/syringe gun are both yellow, but neither one is a banana, so tapping either of them directly will not satisfy the request.

1. Grab the caulking/syringe gun on the lower left and drag it down and to the right, completely away from its original spot. As it slides aside, notice that it was sitting on top of something.

1. Next, drag the baseball glove on the upper right to the side as well, shifting it out of the way. Moving both cover objects opens up the area they were resting on.

1. Once the covers are moved aside, a yellow banana appears in the area that was hidden behind them, surrounded by little sparkle stars. This is the banana you were asked for — it was there all along, simply concealed beneath the other objects.

1. Tap the revealed banana to collect it. The game confirms the solution with a "Good" banner and the message "Seeing is not always believing. Look for it carefully," then displays the banana enlarged in the center circle. The level is complete.

Strategy & Reasoning

This level teaches a second recurring Brain Find lesson: when an obvious object is "missing," it may simply be hidden under another object rather than nonexistent. The designer chose a baseball glove and a caulk gun as decoys because they are both yellowish and unrelated to bananas, which makes the player assume the banana must be obtained by some clever transformation. The success message explicitly warns against trusting your first glance, which is the hint that rearranging the objects is the correct direction.

The reason simply tapping the glove or the gun fails is that neither is the answer; they are containers/covers. The only way to expose the banana is to change the layering by dragging the covers away. The solution video shows the player moving the caulk gun first and then the glove, after which the banana pops out with a sparkle effect. This sparkle reveal is the game's way of signaling that a previously hidden object has been uncovered.

Alternative interpretations do not hold up. The caulk gun cannot be "used" to dispense a banana, and the baseball glove cannot be turned into a banana. Neither object responds to being tapped in place. The intended solution is purely spatial: move the obstacles, find what was underneath. This matches the game's recurring theme of re-examining the screen rather than looking for a complicated mechanism.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: tapping the baseball glove or the caulk gun over and over, expecting one of them to turn into a banana. They are covers, not the answer; you must drag them away.
• Common mistake: moving only one object and giving up. The banana was concealed beneath the cluster of objects, so slide both the glove and the caulk gun fully out of the way before concluding nothing is there.
• Common mistake: looking off-screen for the banana. The banana was on the screen the whole time; the trick is that it was hidden in plain sight behind the other yellow objects.