Brain Out 2 Level 164
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 164 asks "I want black lipstick!", but on screen there is only a single red lipstick floating above a puzzled woman. The solution plays on colour-mixing: black lipstick is not a product you find ready-made, it is created by blending the three primary paint colours. Once you bring out the blue and yellow lipsticks that are hidden alongside the red one and merge all three together, the pigments mix into black lipstick, which the woman then applies happily.
- Difficulty: Regular
- Estimated moves: 4
Step-by-Step Solution
- Read the request. The woman wants black lipstick, but the only lipstick you can see at first is red. There is no ready-made black lipstick anywhere on the screen.
- Look for the other colours. Drag or tap around the red lipstick to reveal the two additional colours that were hidden beside it: a blue lipstick and a yellow lipstick. Now you have the three primary paint colours — red, blue, and yellow.
- Merge the three lipsticks. Drag the blue lipstick and the yellow lipstick together with the red one so they overlap / combine.
- Watch them mix into black. When red, blue and yellow are blended together like paint, the three primary colours combine into black. The single lipstick that results is now black.
- Apply the black lipstick. Move the resulting black lipstick to the woman's lips so she applies it. Her lips turn black and she winks with satisfaction.
- Confirm. The text changes to "This is what I want!" with sparkles around her, and the level clears.
Strategy & Reasoning
This level is a colour-theory puzzle. The naive reaction is to search the screen for a black lipstick, but none exists — the game deliberately starts with only red to push you into thinking about how to create black instead of how to find it.
Red, blue and yellow are the three subtractive primary colours used in paint mixing; together they absorb all light and produce black. The hidden blue and yellow lipsticks are the ingredients the puzzle gives you once you start dragging the objects around. The winning move is to merge all three rather than keep looking for a fourth, ready-made black stick.
The thinking bubble with dots shows the woman wondering; once the three colours combine into black, the puzzle is solved, and applying it to her lips is the final confirmation.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: searching for a black lipstick. There is no black lipstick on screen. You have to make it by mixing colours.
- Mistake: applying the red lipstick. Putting red on her lips gives red, not black. Do not settle for the one obvious colour.
- Mistake: missing the hidden colours. The blue and yellow lipsticks appear once you drag/tap near the red one. Merge all three primary colours (red + blue + yellow) to create the black lipstick she wants.
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