Brain Find Level 96

Overview

Level 96, subtitled "So hungry," shows a green leafy tree standing on grass, with a raw pink steak on the ground to its left, a wooden hand-drill / bow-drill tool in the middle, and two grey rocks on the right. At the bottom the goal icon is a cooked grilled steak. The level is a survival-cooking puzzle: you are hungry and the steak is raw, so you must start a fire and grill the steak over it. The approach is to make fire from the tools, set the tree alight, and then cook the raw steak in the flames.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 3

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Survey the scene. You see the raw steak, the green tree, the wooden hand-drill tool, and two grey rocks. The goal is a cooked steak, so the raw meat must be heated.

1. Start a fire. Strike the two grey rocks together (or use the hand drill) to produce sparks that ignite the dry leaves at the base of the tree.

1. The tree canopy catches fire, turning into a tall orange-and-yellow flame with smoke rising into the sky.

1. Drag the raw pink steak into the flames of the burning tree. The steak sits in the fire and cooks, turning brown with grill marks.

1. Once the steak is cooked, the level completes with a "Good" banner and the message "Wipe your mouth. It's all on the screen," showing the grilled steak in the center circle.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level gives you a raw steak but no stove, oven, or fire. The only way to cook outdoors is to make fire yourself, and the two tools on the ground are classic primitive fire-starting equipment: the grey rocks are flint for striking sparks, and the wooden hand drill is a friction drill. Either can ignite the dry foliage around the tree.

A first-time player might try to eat the raw steak directly, drag it onto the hand drill, or tap the tree expecting it to burn by itself. None of those works, because there is no existing flame. The fire has to be created first, which is why striking the rocks (or using the drill) is the essential step. Once the tree is burning, cooking becomes trivial — you just place the raw meat in the fire.

The completion message "Wipe your mouth. It's all on the screen" confirms the whole goal was simply to cook and eat the steak. The tree burning is a means to an end, not the point; the point is the grilled steak appearing in the goal circle. This is why the sequence must be fire first, then steak in the flames, rather than trying to cook the meat on an unlit tree.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: trying to eat the raw steak or dragging it onto the tree without a fire. It stays raw unless flames are involved.
• Common mistake: ignoring the two rocks or the hand drill. You must start the fire yourself — strike the flint rocks (or use the drill) to ignite the tree.
• Common mistake: leaving the steak on the ground once the tree is burning. Drag the raw steak into the flames so it cooks; a burned tree alone does not finish the level.