Brain Out Level 216

Overview

Level 216 says "Find out 6 smile." The board shows a 4-by-3 grid of twelve emoji faces. At first you can count five obvious smiles: the purple devil in the top left, the heart-eyes face, the closed-eye smile on the right of the second row, the winking face in the bottom left, and the grinning cat. That leaves one short. The Brain Out twist is that the neutral straight-faced emoji in the third row can be reshaped. You drag its flat 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 purple devil in the top left, the heart-eyes face on the left of the second row, the closed-eye smile on the right of the second row, the winking face in the bottom left, and the grinning cat in the bottom center.
3. After five are selected, you still need one more. Look at the neutral face on the right of the third row, 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. This repeats the smile-count mechanic: tap the five obvious smiles, then drag the straight mouth on the neutral face upward and tap it.

Repeat the smile-count trick: tap the five obvious smiles, then drag the straight mouth on the neutral face upward and tap it.
Repeat the smile-count trick: tap the five obvious smiles, then drag the straight mouth on the neutral face upward and tap it.
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 repeats the smile-count trick from the earlier level. Five of the twelve faces are clearly smiling, but the prompt asks for six. The rest are frowning, angry, sleepy, sick, or surprised, 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 uses this redrawable-mouth mechanic whenever a smile count falls short of the obvious smiles. 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, sick, or surprised 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.