Brain Out Level 214

Overview

Level 214 says "Find out 6 smile." The board shows a 4-by-3 grid of twelve emoji faces with different expressions. At first you can count five obvious smiles: the winking face, the grinning cat, the purple devil, the heart-eyes face, and the closed-eye smile. That leaves one short. The Brain Out twist is that the straight-faced emoji in the bottom right can be reshaped. You drag its mouth upward into a smile, and it becomes the sixth smile to tap.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 6

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the grid of twelve emoji faces.
2. Tap the five obvious smiling faces: the winking face in the top row, the grinning cat next to it, the purple devil in the second row, the heart-eyes face in the third row, and the closed-eye smile on the right of the third row.
3. After five are selected, you still need one more. Look at the bottom-right face, which has a straight line for a mouth.
4. Press and hold on that straight mouth and drag it upward. The mouth curves into a smile.
5. Tap that face now that it is smiling.
6. The level-complete pop-up appears with the line "That's right!" Tap Next to continue.
7. After tapping the five obvious smiles, drag the straight mouth on the bottom-right face upward until it curves, then tap that face.

After tapping the five obvious smiles, drag the straight mouth on the bottom-right face upward. It curves into a smile and becomes the sixth.
After tapping the five obvious smiles, drag the straight mouth on the bottom-right face upward. It curves into a smile and becomes the sixth.
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 abuses the number of smiles. Five of the twelve faces are clearly smiling, but the prompt asks for six. Most of the other faces are frowning, angry, sleepy, or sick, so you cannot tap them. The only face that can be converted is the one with the neutral straight mouth, because its mouth line is a draggable object. Brain Out often lets you reshape a drawn mouth by dragging 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

• Tapping the angry, frowning, sleepy, or sick faces. None of them count as smiles.
• Tapping the neutral face without changing its mouth. It must be dragged into a smile first.
• Forgetting that the mouth line can be pulled upward. The gesture is a drag on the mouth, not a tap.