Brain Out Level 202
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 202 says "Get the toy out from the bottle." The board shows a clear plastic bottle with a narrow neck, and a painted Russian matryoshka doll sitting inside the bottle. The doll is too large to fit through the neck, so you cannot pour it out normally. The Brain Out twist is to shrink the doll first. You pinch outward on the doll with two fingers to make it small enough to fit through the neck, then you physically turn your phone upside down so the doll tumbles out.
- Difficulty: Regular
- Estimated moves: 2
Step-by-Step Solution
- Look at the bottle. The matryoshka doll inside is much wider than the bottle neck. Pouring or shaking the phone immediately will not get it out.
- Place two fingers on the doll inside the bottle.
- Spread the fingers apart as if zooming in, but on this level the gesture shrinks the doll. Keep shrinking until the doll is smaller than the bottle neck.
- Once the doll is small enough, turn your phone upside down as if you were pouring something out of a real bottle.
- The small doll slides through the neck and falls out of the bottle. The level-complete pop-up appears with the line "Amazing!" Tap Next to continue.
- Pinch the doll with two fingers to shrink it, then turn the phone upside down so the small doll pours out of the bottle.
Pinching the doll makes it small enough to fit through the bottle neck. Turning the phone upside down then shakes it out without breaking the glass.
Pinch the doll between two fingers to shrink it down small enough to fit through the bottle neck. Then turn the phone upside down and the doll pours out of the bottle without breaking the glass.
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 combines two Brain Out mechanics: pinch-to-scale and device tilt. The doll is drawn too big for the neck, which makes pouring pointless until you shrink it. The pinch gesture is the same one used on the monster level earlier; it changes the size of the object you touch rather than zooming the camera. Once the doll is small, the tilt of the phone (detected by the accelerometer) treats the bottle as if it were being inverted, and the doll pours out. 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
- Turning the phone upside down before shrinking the doll. The doll is too big to come out.
- Pinching inward instead of outward. On this level, spreading two fingers shrinks the doll.
- Dragging the doll with your finger. You cannot pull it through the neck manually; use the tilt.