Brain Find Level 87

Overview

Level 87, subtitled "I hate yellow," shows a blond man in a blue shirt standing in a room, holding a YELLOW balloon on a string. At the bottom a circular goal icon shows a RED balloon. Lined up below are four tools: a tube of red paint squeezing out red paint, a piece of red meat, a blue syringe, and a knife. The level asks you to remove the man's yellow-balloon problem by producing the red balloon he actually wants. The correct tool is the red paint, because it is the only item that can turn the yellow balloon red.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Survey the scene. The man holds a yellow balloon, the goal icon is a red balloon, and four tools lie on the ground below. The title "I hate yellow" tells you the yellow balloon must be changed into a red one.

1. Rule out the wrong tools. The red meat is food and irrelevant, the blue syringe is a medical decoy, and the knife would only pop the balloon — leaving no balloon at all, which does not match the red-balloon goal.

1. Pick up the tube of red paint, which is already squeezing out red paint.

1. Paint the red paint directly onto the yellow balloon. As the red coating spreads over the yellow surface, the balloon changes color from yellow to red.

1. Once the balloon is entirely red, the level completes with a "Good" banner, displaying the red balloon in the center circle.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level sets up a small multiple-choice puzzle disguised as a room scene. Every tool is red-toned in some way, which makes them all look plausible at first: the meat is red, the syringe is blue, the knife is metal. But only the tube of red paint is a coloring agent. The goal is not to destroy the balloon or feed the man — it is to recolor the existing balloon so it is red instead of yellow.

The knife is the main trap. Because the title says "I hate yellow," a player might reason that the solution is to pop the hated yellow balloon with the knife. But the goal icon clearly shows a red balloon, not an empty hand, so popping solves nothing: you end up with no balloon, which fails the level. The meat and syringe are softer decoys that look like they could be used on the balloon but have no coloring effect.

This is why the paint tube is drawn actively squeezing out red paint: it is the game's way of showing that red pigment is available and ready to be applied. Once you recognize the task as "paint the balloon red," the other tools become obviously useless, and a single drag of the paint onto the balloon finishes the level.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: using the knife to pop the yellow balloon. The goal is a red balloon, not no balloon — popping it leaves you empty-handed and fails.
• Common mistake: reaching for the meat or the syringe. Neither changes the balloon's color; they are decoys.
• Common mistake: forgetting the red paint tube. Drag the red paint onto the yellow balloon to coat it red, matching the red-balloon goal.