Brain Find Level 45
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 45, subtitled "Again?", is a cheeky repeat of the earlier cup-and-ball shell game. Three blue plastic cups sit upside down in a row, and below them is the same yellow shuffle button with a circular arrow. The circular goal icon shows a lemon. The title "Again?" acknowledges that you have already solved this kind of tracking puzzle once, and the level dares you to do it again. The core mechanic is still the cup game, but this time the intended move is to stop playing fairly and cheat — lift a cup rather than track the shuffle. The overall approach is to peek under the cups so the lemon is revealed instead of following the swapping.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated moves: 1
Step-by-Step Solution
- Recognize the setup. The title "Again?" is at the top. Three identical blue cups are upside down in a row, the yellow shuffle button sits below, and the goal icon shows a lemon. This is the same three-cup shell game you saw before.
- Remember how the fair version works: press the yellow button, let the cups swap, and try to keep your eye on the lemon's cup. But the joke of this level is that you do not have to do that again.
- Instead of faithfully tracking, lift one of the cups to peek. Rather than letting the shuffle move the lemon out of sight, raise a cup and look underneath it. In the intermediate frame this is exactly what has happened: one cup has been lifted up and to the side, while the lemon is now plainly sitting on the open ground.
- Once the lemon is visible out in the open on the ground, simply select it. You do not need to guess or follow any further swaps, because you have already exposed it.
- The level completes with a yellow success screen, a large "Good" ribbon, and the teasing message "Huh? Did you cheat just now?", showing the lemon inside the circular frame. The joke confirms that your move was to peek rather than play fair. The level is complete.
Strategy & Reasoning
The title "Again?" is the whole hint. It signals that the designers know the honest tracking game was frustrating, and this round invites you to break the rules. The success message, "Did you cheat just now?", spells out the intended attitude: the fun solution is to bypass the tracking challenge entirely and peek.
This is a step beyond the earlier level. Before, the correct behavior was to press shuffle and carefully follow the cup; here, repeating that is unnecessary. By lifting a cup yourself, you convert a difficult visual-tracking task into a simple look-and-pick. The intermediate frame shows the payoff of that choice: a cup is raised, the lemon is sitting in plain sight on the ground, and there is nothing left to track. The game even calls you out for cheating, which is the reward.
Alternative approaches fail for concrete reasons. Pressing the yellow shuffle button and trying to track the cups is still possible but unnecessarily hard, and it is not the "cheat" the level wants. Guessing a cup at random without lifting it risks being wrong. Trying to peek during the shuffle is the spirit of the solution, and once a cup is raised the lemon is obvious. The lighthearted "did you cheat" tone makes clear that breaking the shell-game rules is the intended, funny answer.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Common mistake: treating it like the first cup game and carefully tracking every swap. This time the intended move is to cheat by peeking, not to play fair.
- Common mistake: not lifting a cup before picking. You must raise a cup to expose the lemon; guessing blindly misses the joke solution.
- Common mistake: pressing the shuffle button repeatedly. Peek instead — the lemon is revealed as soon as you lift a cup.