Brain Out Level 212
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 212 says "DO NOT SPEAK!" The board shows a singer holding a microphone and singing, with a no-talking prohibition sign drawn on the left. Tapping the singer, the microphone, or the sign does nothing. The Brain Out twist is that the instruction is aimed at your physical phone, not at the character. You turn the volume on your device all the way down, muting it. Once the phone is silent, the singer falls quiet and the level passes with the message "Keep silence!"
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated moves: 1
Step-by-Step Solution
- Look at the singer. He is holding a microphone and singing, and the sign on the left tells you not to speak.
- Tapping the singer, the microphone, or the no-talking sign does not change anything.
- Use your phone's physical volume buttons. Press the volume-down button repeatedly.
- Keep pressing it until the volume indicator on your phone shows zero, or the phone goes into silent mode.
- As soon as the device is muted, the singer stops. The level-complete pop-up appears with the line "Keep silence!" Tap Next to continue.
- Press the physical volume-down button on the side of your phone repeatedly until the silent mode icon appears.
Press the physical volume-down button on the side of the phone. The on-screen singer stops as soon as the device is muted.
Press the physical volume-down button on the side of the phone repeatedly until the silent mode icon appears. The on-screen singer stops as soon as the device is muted.
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.
After the device switches to silent mode, the singer freezes and the level-complete pop-up appears.
Strategy & Reasoning
The puzzle uses the phone's hardware volume as part of the solution. The instruction "DO NOT SPEAK!" sounds like a rule for the character, but the only way to stop sound in this scene is to stop the sound coming out of your own device. The game listens to your phone's volume level rather than to any on-screen object. 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
- Tapping the singer or the microphone. Neither is interactive.
- Dragging the no-talking sign onto the singer. That does not work.
- Forgetting that the volume button is a physical button on the side of the phone, not a slider inside the app.