Brain Out Level 199

Overview

Level 199 says "ZOZO wants to go skating with friends! Help him find another skate." The board shows a blue coat rack on the left, a turquoise cup sitting on a brown saucer on the upper right, and a large red heart on the lower right. There is no skate drawn anywhere. The Brain Out twist is that the coat rack can be taken apart and its pieces reassembled into a skate boot. The pole becomes the blade, the round base becomes the foot block, and the hooks become the boot straps. Once you lay the coat rack pieces flat, they look like a skate.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 3

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the coat rack on the left. It stands vertically with a curved top hook and two side hooks. The cup on the saucer and the red heart are distractors.
2. Press and hold on the coat rack and drag it apart. The pole, the round base, and the hooks come loose as separate pieces.
3. Lay the long pole horizontally on the ground to form the blade.
4. Place the round blue base on top of the pole as the boot block.
5. Attach the two side hooks as straps across the boot.
6. The reassembled object looks like an ice skate. The level-complete pop-up appears with the line "You found it!" Tap Next to continue.
7. Take the pole off the coat rack and use it to hook the ice skates hanging on the ceiling, then reassemble the rack.

After freeing the skates, place them on the floor by the rack. The level completes once the skates are visible out of the closet.
Take the pole off the coat rack and use it to hook the ice skates hanging from the ceiling. Once the skates drop down, reassemble the rack and place the skates on the floor.
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 take-apart-and-recombine problem. The cup and saucer are drawn to look like other household items, and the red heart is a generic decoration. None of them is a skate. The coat rack, however, has a long thin pole and a round base, which are the two shapes you need for a skate. Most players treat the coat rack as a single object, but Brain Out lets you disassemble it by dragging. 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 use the cup or the heart as a skate. They are distractors.
• Leaving the coat rack assembled. It must be taken apart so the pole can lie flat as a blade.
• Forgetting the round base. The base is the boot block; without it the object is just a pole.