Brain Out Level 162
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 162 tells you to "Make an ice cream!" and shows a purple soft-serve ice-cream machine in the center of the screen, with a small stack of waffle cones hanging on its right side. Below the machine lie three loose items: a brown poop icon, a glass of milk, and a pile of ice cubes. The machine has a power cord trailing off to the right edge, and at first glance it looks like you should simply drag the ingredients onto the machine. The real Brain Out trick is that the machine is not plugged in, and the plug itself is hidden off-screen behind the machine; you have to drag the machine sideways with two fingers to reveal the socket, plug it in, and only then feed it the cone, milk, and ice. The poop icon on the tray is a red herring and is never used.
- Difficulty: Regular
- Estimated moves: 5
Step-by-Step Solution
- Before dragging any ingredient, notice the black power cord coming out of the right side of the machine. The plug itself is off-screen to the right, hidden behind the machine, which is why the machine does nothing when you tap it. The machine has to be moved out of the way of the plug.
- Place one finger on the machine body and a second finger on the empty white space beside it, then drag the whole machine to the left. This two-finger drag slides the machine across the screen and reveals the wall power socket that was hidden behind the right edge. Keep sliding until the plug on the end of the cord lines up with the socket.
- Once the socket is visible, let go so the plug head snaps into the wall socket. The machine powers on; you will know it is live when the red dispensing plunger on the front becomes active and the chute below it accepts a cone.
- Take one waffle cone from the stack hanging on the right side of the machine, and drag it directly under the dispensing nozzle inside the machine, sitting on the yellow tray. The cone must be centered under the red nozzle, otherwise the soft-serve will miss it.
- Drag the glass of milk from the bottom tray into the machine's intake area, then drag the pile of ice cubes onto the machine as well. The machine combines the milk and ice and extrudes soft-serve down into the cone.
- Wait for the ice cream to finish filling the cone. When the machine has finished dispensing, the level-complete pop-up appears with the line "Now you know how to make the ice cream!" Tap Next to continue. Ignore the brown poop icon on the bottom tray; it is a joke distractor and does not count.
Strategy & Reasoning
The level is built around two Brain Out habits. The first is that objects are often hidden behind other objects or off-screen, and a normal single-finger drag will not move a heavy appliance. The two-finger pan is the standard "move the whole scene" gesture, which the game uses whenever a background object is concealed. The second habit is that the obvious ingredient on the tray (the poop) is there to tempt you into a joke answer; the real recipe is the boring one — milk plus ice plus cone, like a real soft-serve machine.
People get stuck by dragging the milk, ice, and cone onto the unplugged machine in any order, and nothing happens. Without power the nozzle is inert, so no combination of ingredients will produce a cone. The puzzle has to be solved in a fixed order: power first, then recipe. Once the machine is powered, the order of ingredients does not matter much, but the cone must sit under the nozzle before milk and ice are combined, otherwise the soft-serve lands on the tray. The congratulatory line confirms the normal recipe, not the poop gag, so there is no hidden chocolate-poop variant.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Dragging ingredients onto the machine before plugging it in. The machine is dead until the power socket is revealed and connected; no ingredient will register.
- Using one finger instead of two to move the machine. A single-finger tap just selects the machine; the two-finger pan is what slides it sideways to reveal the hidden socket.
- Dropping the poop icon into the machine as a "flavor." It is a distractor and never counts; the win condition requires milk, ice, and a cone.