Brain Find Level 89

Overview

Level 89, subtitled "Play with it for a while," shows a calm cream-colored cat sitting upright in the middle of a blank screen. Below it lie four items: a ball of purple yarn, a small fish, a food bowl printed with a cat face, and a colorful beach ball. At the bottom a circular goal icon shows a close-up of a cat's paw. The level asks you to interact with the cat until it lifts or shows its paw, and the item designed for that is the yarn ball, the classic cat toy. The approach is to drag the yarn to the cat so it plays and bats at it with a paw.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Survey the scene. The cat is sitting still with its front paws tucked down, and the goal icon is a close-up of a cat's paw. The four items on the ground are a yarn ball, a fish, a food bowl, and a beach ball.

1. Notice which item is a toy rather than food. The fish and the food bowl are things a cat eats, and the beach ball is a large toy more suited to a dog or a child. The purple yarn ball is the classic cat plaything.

1. Drag the purple yarn ball over to the cat and drop it in front of its paws.

1. The cat begins to play with the yarn, lifting one front paw to bat at it. As it raises the paw, the pink toe beans and pads are revealed.

1. The level completes with a "Good" banner and the message "The cat's paws are so cute!", showing the raised cat paw in the center circle.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level's instruction, "Play with it for a while," tells you that feeding the cat is not the goal. A first-time player might drag the fish or the food bowl to the cat, which would only make it eat or ignore you, and that never reveals a paw. The beach ball is a softer decoy — it looks like a toy, but it is too big and too plain for a cat.

The yarn ball is the key because cats swat and kick at yarn, and that swatting motion is exactly what makes a cat lift its paw. Once the yarn is presented, the natural reaction is for the cat to reach out and play, which exposes the paw the goal icon asks for. This is why the completion message comments on the cuteness of the paws rather than on food: the level is rewarding a playful interaction, not feeding.

Trying to tap the cat directly or to drag the beach ball over it does not trigger the paw, because the cat stays in its calm sitting posture. Only a proper cat toy — the yarn — produces the batting motion that reveals the paw. The level is therefore a simple matching puzzle disguised as "play with the cat": pick the one item a cat actually plays with.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: dragging the fish or the food bowl to the cat. Those are food, not toys; the cat eats or ignores them and never shows its paw.
• Common mistake: dragging the beach ball over the cat. It looks like a toy but is not something a cat plays with, so it does not make the cat lift a paw.
• Common mistake: tapping the cat itself. To make it raise its paw, drag the purple yarn ball to the cat so it bats at the yarn and reveals its paw.