Brain Out Level 109

Overview

The prompt says it is time to go to bed and asks you to help turn off the light. A lit orange desk lamp stands in the middle of the board with a red and a blue cord trailing from its base. There is no visible switch on the lampshade, and tapping the bulb or the arm does not extinguish it. The intended gesture treats the device itself as the lamp: turn the phone over so the screen faces down, and the light goes out as if the lamp were laid against a surface.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the prompt and inspect the lamp. Note the lit bulb with rays around it, the adjustable arm, and the two cords coming from the base. No button or switch is drawn on the lamp itself.
2. Rule out tapping the bulb, the lampshade, or the arm. A direct tap does not turn the lamp off, and the cords do not unplug themselves when dragged.
3. Recognize the level as a device-orientation puzzle. The lamp on screen stands in for the phone you are holding, and "turning off the light" means setting the device face down.
4. Flip the physical phone over so its screen points toward the desk or table beneath it, screen-side down. Rotate the whole device around its short side so the face that shows the lamp ends up resting against the surface below.
5. Hold the device in that face-down position for a moment. The level detects the orientation change and switches the lamp off. Keep it steady instead of turning it back while the detection registers.
6. The success panel appears once the light has gone out. If the lamp stays lit, make sure the phone has been turned fully over rather than merely tilted away from you, and hold the face-down pose a little longer.

Strategy & Reasoning

This level belongs to the orientation group of Brain Out puzzles, where the answer is a physical movement of the device rather than an interaction with on-screen objects. The desk lamp drawing frames the phone itself as the light source, which is why there is no switch to press on the image. The red and blue cords reinforce the lamp metaphor but are not draggable parts.

Players usually hunt for a hidden switch on the lamp first, tapping around the base and arm. Those attempts fail because the level never provides an in-game control. Once the connection between the lit screen and the lit bulb is made, the face-down gesture follows naturally: covering the screen the way you would lay a lamp down to sleep. The level only checks orientation, so no extra tap after flipping is required.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Do not look for a switch on the lamp base or tap the bulb; the level provides no in-game light button.
• Turn the phone fully over so the screen faces down toward the table, not just sideways or at an angle.
• Keep the device face down until the success panel appears; lifting it back up keeps the lamp lit.