Brain Find Level 97

Overview

Level 97, subtitled "He is also hungry," shows a green apple tree heavy with four red apples, while a hungry ragged caveboy stands below clutching his growling stomach. On the right are a spear stuck in the ground and a cave hut. At the bottom the goal icon is an eaten apple core with a stem and leaf. The level asks you to feed the starving boy, but the apples are all high up in the tree and he cannot reach them. The approach is to get a ladder, climb the tree, pick an apple, and give it to him to eat.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 3

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Survey the scene. The boy is hungry, four ripe red apples hang high in the tree, and he is standing on the ground far below them. The goal icon is an eaten apple core, so the boy must actually eat an apple.

1. Notice the boy cannot reach the apples by jumping. He needs a way up to the branches.

1. Set up a wooden ladder and lean it against the apple tree so it reaches the branches where the apples hang.

1. Climb the ladder / use it to reach one of the red apples, pick it, and bring it down to the hungry boy.

1. Give the apple to the boy. He takes a bite and eats it, leaving an apple core. The level completes with a "Good" banner and the message "People who are hungry cannot be Newtons," showing the apple core in the center circle.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level's completion line is a pun on Isaac Newton, who was famously inspired by a falling apple. The joke is that this hungry boy cannot afford to sit around waiting for an apple to fall on his head — he needs food now. Because all the apples are out of reach, simply tapping the boy or the tree does nothing; the problem is physical access.

The ladder is the missing piece. A first-time player might tap the apples directly, tap the boy, or try to use the spear to knock fruit down, but the spear is set dressing and the apples cannot be reached from the ground. Once a ladder is placed against the trunk, the boy can climb to the fruit, pick an apple, and eat it. This is why the goal is an apple core rather than a whole apple: the level wants the boy to consume the fruit, not just collect it.

The cave hut and spear are distractions. The productive chain is purely reachability — get a ladder, get up to the apples, bring one down, feed the boy. The eaten core that remains confirms he has finally had something to eat, matching the hungry-stomach setup at the start.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Common mistake: tapping the apples directly or the boy's stomach. He cannot reach high apples from the ground, so tapping them does nothing.
• Common mistake: trying to knock apples down with the spear. The spear is decoration; it does not harvest the fruit.
• Common mistake: forgetting to actually feed the boy after picking an apple. Pick one red apple from the tree and drag it to the hungry boy so he eats it, leaving an apple core.