Brain Out 2 Level 84
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 84 asks you to "Wake up the princess." A princess in a crown is fast asleep on a canopy bed piled high with seven colorful mattresses — a nod to the classic Princess and the Pea fairy tale. The room is dark and cozy, with a candle, a sleeping cat, a pearl on the nightstand, and a mouse hole in the corner. Simply tapping the sleeping princess does not rouse her; she is too comfortable on the soft stack. The trick is to remove the comfort layer by layer until the hidden pea beneath pricks her. The victory line, "Ow! What stabbed my delicate skin?", confirms she has felt the pea and woken up.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated moves: 7
Step-by-Step Solution
- Look at the tall bed. Notice the princess sleeping on top of a stack of seven differently colored mattresses. Do not tap her directly — she will not wake up on her own.
- Start removing the top mattress. Drag or swipe the top colored mattress off the bed to the side. Pull it completely away so it disappears.
- Remove every mattress beneath it. Keep peeling the mattresses off one at a time — red, yellow, green, pink, and so on — until the entire soft stack has been cleared away.
- Expose the hard bed frame. Once all seven mattresses are gone, the princess is left lying directly on the bare wooden bed board, with a small hard pea pressing up against her underneath.
- She feels the pea and wakes. The pressure of the single pea through nothing but the bed board pricks the princess. She bolts upright, wide awake, and complains "Ow! What stabbed my delicate skin?" with a star of pain by her head. The level is cleared.
Strategy & Reasoning
This level retells the Princess and the Pea. The whole point of that tale is that only a real princess can feel a single pea hidden under a gigantic pile of mattresses. Here, the game inverts the usual puzzle: instead of finding the pea, you must remove the mattresses so that the pea reaches her.
The reason the princess sleeps so soundly is the thickness of the bedding. As long as those soft layers cushion her, no amount of tapping or noise wakes her. The sleeping cat, the candle, the pearl, and the mouse hole are all room dressing. The only object that matters is the pea at the bottom of the stack, and it can affect her only when everything above it is cleared.
Waking her by external means — opening the window, blowing the candle, making noise — does not work in this puzzle. The intended "wake up" is the internal discomfort of the pea. Once you understand that the mattresses themselves are the obstacle to be removed, the solution is just a matter of pulling them all off.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: tapping the sleeping princess. Tapping her face or body does nothing; she is deeply asleep on the soft bed. You must remove the bedding, not prod her.
- Mistake: opening the window or blowing out the candle. These are atmospheric details and do not wake the princess. Ignore the room objects.
- Mistake: stopping after one or two mattresses. The princess only feels the pea once the entire stack of seven is gone. Keep pulling mattresses off until she is on the bare board and the pea pricks her.
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