Brain Out Level 165

Overview

Level 165 asks you to "Find the Fly." The scene shows a girl in a pink shirt holding a green fly swatter, looking cross and ready to swat. Around her are a yellow dog wearing round glasses, a pink maneki-neko lucky cat on a wooden counter, a slice of raw steak, a small pile of poop, and a line of books on a shelf above. A fly is somewhere in the room, but it is invisible to you until the girl can actually see it. The Brain Out twist is that the glasses on the dog's face belong to the girl; once you take the glasses off the dog and put them on her eyes, the fly becomes visible and you can tap it.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 2

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Scan the room before tapping anything. The fly swatter in the girl's hand is a hint that she is the one who should be swatting, not you. Notice that she is not wearing glasses, while the dog is wearing round glasses on its face. The glasses obviously belong to her.
2. Press and hold on the round glasses on the dog's face. Lift them off the dog's nose. The dog's face will look bare once you have the glasses in hand.
3. Drag the glasses over to the girl's face and drop them onto her eyes. She will put them on. The moment she wears them, a tiny fly becomes visible near the dog's nose or mouth, buzzing in the air between the dog and the girl.
4. Quickly tap the visible fly before it flies away. A single tap on the fly kills it and triggers the level-complete pop-up. If you miss, the fly will move; keep an eye on the small flying speck and tap it again.
5. The level-complete pop-up appears with the line "I dislike fly!" Tap Next to continue.
6. As the glasses move onto the girl's face, her vision clears and she spots the fly. You do not need to tap the fly itself; the level completes as soon as the glasses are placed.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle works because the room is full of obvious candidates for a hidden fly: the steak, the poop, the bookshelf, the cat. All of those are set dressing. The actual obstruction is that the main character is shortsighted. Brain Out gives her a fly swatter but forgets the glasses, and the glasses are sitting on the dog in plain sight. The only way to "find" the fly is to restore the girl's vision rather than scanning the room yourself.

Tapping the steak, the poop, the bookshelf, or the cat does nothing. Those items are there to make you waste time on classic fly-attractor props. Dragging the fly swatter itself around also does nothing, because the problem is not the weapon, it is the aim. The dog wearing glasses is the single anomalous detail on the board, and anomalies are where Brain Out hides its solutions.

Once the glasses move, the fly is rendered at a small size near the dog's snout. It is tiny on purpose; without the glasses, the game does not draw it at all. The congratulatory line "I dislike fly!" confirms that the girl is the one who just killed it, which is why the glasses had to go to her rather than to you or to any other character.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Tapping around the steak, poop, or bookshelf looking for the fly. Those are distractors; the fly only renders after the girl gets her glasses back.
• Putting the glasses back on the dog or leaving them floating. They must be dropped on the girl's face, not on the dog's.
• Tapping slowly after the glasses go on. The fly is small and can move; tap it the moment it appears.