Brain Out 2 Level 163
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 163 puts a vintage rotary-dial telephone in front of you. The hint reads "Help her dial the number on the piece paper!", and a confused girl holds up a small slip of paper that clearly reads "555". The old-fashioned dial has the digits 1 through 9 and 0 arranged in a circle, and the girl does not know how to use it. The task is simply to dial the number written on the paper — 555 — on the rotary dial three times. The solved state shows the phone lit up with emphasis rays and the girl smiling as she recognizes the nostalgic device.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated moves: 3
Step-by-Step Solution
- Read the paper. The girl holds a slip of paper marked "555". This is the number she needs to call. Confirm there are exactly three digits, all of them 5.
- Recognise the rotary dial. The phone is an old rotary model, not a button keypad. To dial a digit, you turn the rotating dial disc to that number and let it spring back. There is no green call button to press.
- Dial the first 5. Rotate the dial disc until it reaches the number 5, then release it so it returns to its rest position. Listen for the click as it winds back.
- Dial the second 5. Turn the dial to the number 5 a second time and release it. Wait for the disc to fully return before entering the next digit.
- Dial the third 5. Turn the dial to the number 5 a third time and release. Now the full number 555 has been dialled.
- Confirm. The phone lights up with yellow emphasis rays and the girl smiles, saying "I haven't seen this old-fashioned phone in a long time!", and the level clears.
Strategy & Reasoning
The level is a light novelty about old technology. Modern players only know touch-tone keypads, so a rotary dial looks unfamiliar and they may start tapping the numbers on the dial as if they were buttons. But a rotary phone does not work by tapping; each digit is entered by pulling the rotating disc around to that number and letting it snap back.
The number on the paper is unambiguous: "555". There is no hidden extra digit, no trick about the paper being incomplete, and no need to move the handset. Once you understand that the circular disc rotates, you simply enter 5 three times. The satisfied reaction confirms that dialling 555 was the whole solution. The nostalgia message is the game's way of telling you the correct action was repeated the right number of times.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: tapping the numbers on the dial. The printed digits are not buttons. On a rotary phone you must rotate the disc to the number and release it.
- Mistake: dialling the wrong digits. The paper says exactly "555", so enter 5 three times. Do not add other digits you imagine should be there.
- Mistake: moving the handset. The receiver resting on top is not part of dialling; leave it where it is and use the rotating dial.
- Hint: If the disc does not spring back after you release it, you have not pulled it all the way to the stop.
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