Brain Find Level 82

Overview

Level 82, subtitled "There are too many rats here," shows a bald prisoner in a white vest sitting glumly on the edge of a bed inside a jail cell. Around the room are a wall clock, a barred cell window, a wanted poster, a lit candle on the floor, a plate with a wedge of cheese, a small wooden box on the right, and a dark rat hole set into the wall near the bars. At the bottom a circular goal icon shows a brown rat. The level asks you to deal with the rat infestation, and the pieces on the floor — the cheese and the wooden box — are clearly meant to work together as a trap rather than to be tapped one by one.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 2

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Survey the cell. Notice the dark rat hole in the right wall, the lit candle, the plate of cheese, and the small wooden box standing on the right side of the floor. The goal icon is a rat, so you need to catch one.

1. Recognize the small wooden box as a mousetrap. On its own it does nothing; it needs bait before a rat will approach it.

1. Drag the wedge of cheese off the plate and drop it onto the wooden box / trap to set it as bait. Once the cheese sits on the trap, the box is armed and waiting.

1. Place the baited trap on the floor near the rat hole, where the rats keep emerging. A rat comes out, sniffs the cheese, and triggers the trap.

1. The trap snaps on the rat. The level completes with a "Good" banner and the message "Hissing, looks painful," showing the caught rat in the center circle.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level is designed to look like a messy prison scene where almost every object could be the answer. The clock, the bars, the poster, and the lit candle are all set dressing: tapping them does nothing because the problem is the rats, and rats respond to food rather than to furniture. The cheese is the obvious lure, but cheese alone on a plate does not catch a rat — it only feeds it. That is where the wooden box comes in.

The designer hides the trap in plain sight by drawing the wooden box as a plain crate. A first-time player may mistake it for a storage box or drag it around the cell aimlessly. The trick is to treat it as a snap trap and arm it with the cheese, which turns a useless prop into an active device. This is why the middle of the solution shows the box moved next to a round bait spot on the floor: the cheese has been placed on the trap.

Trying to chase rats directly or tapping the rat hole does not work, because the rats only come out on their own schedule. The lit candle is a tempting red herring — smoke or fire seems like a way to drive rats out — but the completion message "Hissing, looks painful" points instead to a sudden, painful mechanical snap, which is exactly what a baited mousetrap delivers. Setting the trap near the hole is therefore the intended path.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: tapping the candle, the clock, the bars, or the rat hole trying to scare the rats away. None of these catches a rat; the candle is only decoration.
• Common mistake: leaving the cheese on the plate. A rat will eat free cheese without being caught — you must move the cheese onto the wooden box to arm the trap.
• Common mistake: treating the wooden box as a crate. It is a mousetrap; bait it with the cheese and set it near the rat hole so a rat triggers the snap.