Brain Out Level 194

Overview

Level 194 says "Subdue the monster." The board shows a small boy in a gray tank top and green shorts scratching his head on the left, and a purple horned monster with bat wings floating on the right. At first glance the monster is about the boy's height, and there is no weapon anywhere on screen. The Brain Out twist is that the monster can be scaled down. You pinch outward on the monster with two fingers to zoom it down until it becomes tiny, then drag the shrunken monster into the boy's pocket. Once it fits in the pocket, the level is complete.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 3

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the boy and the monster. The boy is scratching his head, which is a hint that he is thinking rather than fighting. There are no weapons, no traps, and no other characters.
2. Place two fingers on the purple monster. Spread them apart as if you were zooming in, but the game reverses the gesture for this puzzle: spreading fingers shrinks the monster.
3. Keep shrinking the monster until it is tiny, small enough to fit inside the boy's shorts pocket.
4. Once the monster is shrunken, drag it with a finger and drop it into the pocket on the boy's green shorts. The pocket is the square patch on the front of the shorts.
5. The monster disappears into the pocket, and the level-complete pop-up appears with the line "WOW!" Tap Next to continue. If the monster is still too large, keep shrinking it before dropping it.
6. Pinch the small monster with two fingers to shrink it down, then drag it into the boy's pocket on his shirt.

Continue the action described in the previous steps until the level-complete pop-up appears.
Pinch the monster between two fingers until it shrinks down to pocket size, then drag it to the breast pocket on the boy's shirt. Once it is inside the pocket, the boy walks away safely.
If the pop-up does not appear on your first attempt, repeat the action described above; the level triggers completion the moment the required object is placed or the required gesture finishes.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle is a two-finger scale trick. Brain Out uses pinch gestures in several levels to change the size of an object rather than zooming the camera. Here, spreading your fingers on the monster makes it small, which is counterintuitive because normally spreading zooms in. The game picks this inverted behavior on purpose so that "subdue" is solved by making the monster pocket-sized rather than by fighting it. This level follows Brain Out's signature rule: the obvious action rarely works, and the solution usually involves either moving an on-screen object that looks fixed, using a hardware button, or treating the prompt text itself as a draggable element. Once you recognize the pattern, the trick becomes easy to spot.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Trying to fight or tap the monster. There is no combat; the monster must be scaled down.
• Pinching inward instead of outward. On this level, spreading two fingers shrinks the monster.
• Dropping the monster on the boy's body instead of in the pocket. It must land inside the pocket patch on the shorts.