Brain Out 2 Level 13

Overview

Level 13 panics you with "Let this pot of food stop boiling!" A worried boy stands behind a bubbling pot of instant noodles on an induction cooktop; the liquid is boiling hard and about to spill over, shown by yellow warning arrows around the pot. On the table there is a glass of water with a straw on the left and a pair of scissors on the right, and the cooker's power cord plugs into a wall socket. The obvious fix is not to cool the noodles but to cut the heat — turn off the induction cooker. Once the stove goes off, the pot stops boiling and the noodles are saved.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the emergency. The pot is boiling violently on the induction cooktop and looks about to boil over. The boy is sweating and panicking.

1. Do not grab the hot pot or pour in the water. Touching the pot would burn him, and pouring the glass of water in is not the answer. The scissors on the table are also a red herring.

1. Look at the heat source. The pot sits on an induction cooktop, and the cooktop is what is making it boil. The control area on the front of the cooktop is the thing to use.

1. Tap the cooktop's power / off control. Press the control panel on the front of the induction cooker to turn the heat off.

1. The boiling stops. The heat cuts off, the vigorous bubbling and steam subside, and the yellow warning arrows around the pot disappear. The pot calms down and sits quietly on the now-off cooker.

1. Confirm the clear. The boy relaxes and the prompt changes to "Luckily the instant noodles were saved!" The green next button appears.

Strategy & Reasoning

The level tests whether you identify the source of the problem. The boiling is caused by the electric cooktop, so the fastest and safest way to stop it is to switch the cooker off rather than trying to cool the food directly. Brain Out puts scary objects (a near-boiling pot) and tempting tools (a glass of water, scissors) around it to make you reach for the wrong fix.

Pouring water into the pot would only make it boil over more and ruin the noodle soup, and grabbing the pot is dangerous. Cutting the cord with scissors is also overkill and unnecessary. The clean solution is the appliance itself: turn off the induction cooker. The tap point on the front panel confirms that the control is the intended interaction.

Once the power to the heating element is cut, the pot stops rolling, the steam dies down, and the warning arrows vanish — exactly the "noodles saved" outcome. You do not need to move the pot, the scissors, or the glass; the single off-switch tap does everything.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: pouring the glass of water in. This looks intuitive but makes the boil-over worse and thins the soup. Do not use the water.
• Mistake: reaching for the scissors to cut the cord. The scissors are a decoy. You do not need to cut the power cable; just turn off the cooktop.
• Mistake: tapping the pot or the boy. Tapping the hot pot does nothing. Tap the induction cooker's control panel to turn off the heat; the boiling then stops on its own.

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