Brain Out Level 23

Overview

The board shows a framed landscape painting with houses along the bottom, a moon and a star in its night sky, and a cloud shape inside the picture, while a finished fried egg appears as a reference at the top. The prompt says you are so hungry and asks you to make something to eat. No edible ingredient lies around the scene, which means the meal has to be built from shapes inside the painting: a yellow circle and a white cloud combine to look like a poached egg. The houses, moon, star, and the face on the sun are first cleared out of the way, then the two egg-like shapes are joined.

• Difficulty: Hard
• Estimated moves: 5

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the prompt and accept that the board does not give you a prepared snack. The food has to be assembled from the visual shapes drawn inside the framed painting.
2. Clear the buildings out of the painting first. Drag the house shapes along the bottom of the picture away from the frame so they no longer sit in the scene.
3. Remove the moon and the star from the painted sky as well. These dark shapes block the sky area where the white cloud and yellow circle will later be combined.
4. Look at the yellow circle in the picture, which has a smiley face drawn on it. Drag the face, its eyes and its mouth, off the circle so the yellow disc becomes a plain round yolk shape.
5. Bring the yellow circle together with the white cloud shape inside the painting. A plain yellow round center sitting on a soft white cloud outline reads as a poached egg, matching the finished egg shown at the top of the board.
6. Once the yolk and cloud have joined into the egg shape, tap the completed poached egg. The level recognizes the food you made and the success panel appears.

The mechanic here is shape assembly from an existing illustration. The painting supplies the parts that already resemble egg white and yolk, and the level asks you to strip away the distracting scenery and face until those parts can be read as food.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle leans on how a poached egg is drawn: a round yellow yolk centered on an irregular white cloud of albumen. The painting already contains a yellow circle and a white cloud, but houses, night sky objects, and a smiley face keep them from reading as an egg. Removing those extras frees the two shapes to be combined into the recognizable food.

Dragging any loose background item around fails because the wrong objects do not contribute to the egg. Leaving the face on the yellow circle fails because a smiling disc does not read as a yolk. Keeping the moon, star, or houses in the frame fails because they clutter the composition the way a real painting would, hiding the egg resemblance. The intended sequence strips the picture down, pairs the plain yellow disc with the cloud, and selects the finished shape.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Do not look for a hidden ingredient outside the painting. The food is built from shapes already inside the framed picture, so the work happens inside that scene.
• Remove the smiley face from the yellow circle before pairing it with the cloud. A yellow disc with eyes and a mouth reads as a sun, not as an egg yolk.
• Match the cloud as the egg white and the plain yellow circle as the yolk. Once they sit together the finished poached egg can be tapped to clear the level.