Brain Find Level 43

Overview

Level 43, subtitled "Test your hand speed," presents a playful scene: a single pink hand hangs in from the left edge of the screen, and a long-necked yellow bird sits calmly on a horizontal wire in the middle of the screen. Near the bottom, a small laughing face appears inside a circle as the goal you need to produce. On the surface the title sounds like a reaction-speed challenge, but the real trick is much simpler: nobody can stand being tickled. The core mechanic is dragging the floating hand over to the bird and scratching its sensitive spot until it bursts out laughing, at which point the game rewards you with the message that everyone is afraid of being tickled.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the whole scene first. At the top is the prompt "Test your hand speed." On the far left, a large cartoon hand enters the frame with its palm open. In the center, the yellow bird sits on a thin horizontal wire with its arms relaxed at its sides, looking completely unbothered. At the bottom, a laughing-face icon shows the expression you must make the bird show.

1. Do not start tapping the bird itself or tapping the wire. The bird is not a button; tapping its body, head, or feet does nothing, and shaking the wire does not change its mood either. The thing that matters is the hand on the left, which is clearly drawn as an object you can grab and move.

1. Press and hold on the floating hand, then drag it across the screen toward the bird. Bring the palm of the hand into contact with the bird's upper body, right under its raised arm — the armpit / side-of-neck area where tickling feels ticklish.

1. Once the hand is in place, rub or scratch it back and forth against that spot quickly. This is what "test your hand speed" really means: you have to move the hand rapidly, not just leave it resting there. As soon as the fast scratching begins, the bird reacts: its eyes squeeze shut, its mouth flies open in a laugh, and it throws both arms up to grab at the tickling hand. The bird is now laughing uncontrollably.

1. Keep the fast scratching going for a moment. The game then accepts the laugh as the correct answer and brings up the success screen: a red ribbon reading "Good," the line "Ha ha, no one is not afraid to be scratched," and a big laughing face in the center of the screen. The level is complete.

Strategy & Reasoning

The title "Test your hand speed" is deliberately misleading. A typical player reads it as a reflex test — expecting the bird to move, jump, or dodge and waiting for the perfect moment to tap it. That interpretation leads nowhere, because the bird never moves on its own and there is no reaction target to time against. The designer wants you to realize that the phrase is a pun: your "hand speed" is needed not to react fast, but to scratch fast.

The visual evidence points straight at the hand. It is the only object on the screen that looks like a tool and that is positioned awkwardly, entering from outside the frame rather than belonging to the scene. Objects that float in from the edge of a Brain Find screen are almost always draggable, and the laughing face at the bottom tells you the desired outcome is to make someone laugh. Combining those two clues — a movable hand plus a goal of laughter — leads naturally to tickling.

Why the armpit specifically? In the intermediate moment of the solution, the hand is shown pressed against the bird's upper side while the bird's arms fly upward to shield that exact spot. That body language is the universal sign of being tickled: people raise their arms when their underarm is scratched, because that is the ticklish zone. Scratching the bird's feet, head, or beak would not produce the laugh animation, which is why the hand has to be aimed under the arm rather than anywhere on the body.

Alternative approaches fail for concrete reasons. Tapping the bird does nothing because the bird is not interactive on its own. Dragging the hand but holding it still only makes the bird look annoyed, not laugh, so the speed of the rubbing is essential. Trying to tap the laughing-face icon at the bottom also does nothing, because that icon is only a preview of the reward. The winning path is therefore short and direct: grab the hand, put it under the bird's arm, and scratch quickly until it laughs.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: treating it as a reaction-speed tap game and waiting to tap the bird. The bird never dodges, so there is nothing to time. Instead, grab the floating hand on the left and drag it over to the bird.
• Common mistake: pressing the hand against the bird but not moving it. Simply resting the hand on the bird does not trigger the laugh. You must rub/scratch back and forth quickly — that is the real meaning of "hand speed."
• Common mistake: scratching the wrong body part, such as the bird's feet or beak. Aim under the bird's arm, at the armpit/upper-side area; the bird raising its arms is the sign you have hit the ticklish spot.