Brain Puzzle 3 Level 152

Overview

Level 152 is a timed hidden-object puzzle. The yellow banner says "Find the lover hiding in the house" with a 3:00 countdown. In a green-walled living room, an orange-haired man in a purple sweater and tied plaid shirt stands furious with fire on his head, while his blonde girlfriend in a black slip dress pretends to smile and says "Trust me, honey, I didn't betray you." Around the room are several suspicious signs: a male silhouette behind the pink curtain on the left, a figure dressed as a potted bonsai tree, a male silhouette posing behind the blue shower curtain in the bathroom, two blond men pretending to sleep on the bed and couch, a white refrigerator, and a pink suitcase on the floor next to a coffee table set with two plates. The goal is to catch every secret lover hidden in the house before they get away.

• Difficulty: Hard
• Estimated moves: 5

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Pull back the pink curtain. Tap the pink curtain on the left window. A male silhouette is revealed; the curtain swings away and a blond man in a brown suit is dragged out, standing beside the boyfriend with his hands clasped in a guilty, pleading pose. The woman gasps and covers her mouth.

1. Unmask the bonsai. Tap the person dressed as a potted bonsai tree. It is not a plant — a hidden lover in a brown robe is standing there, and he is revealed.

1. Open the shower curtain in the bathroom. Tap the blue shower curtain by the bathtub. A male silhouette posing there is exposed in the bathroom.

1. Open the refrigerator. Tap the white double-door fridge. Its doors swing open to an empty interior — another lover was hiding inside the fridge.

1. Open the pink suitcase. Tap the pink suitcase on the floor. It pops open empty — yet another lover was curled up inside.

1. All lovers are caught. With every hiding spot revealed, the room is left with only the furious boyfriend and the guilty blonde woman standing among the empty beds, open fridge and open suitcase. The red "Completed" banner drops with confetti.

Strategy & Reasoning

This is a "where are all the hidden lovers" spot-the-object puzzle. The joke is that the woman claims she is faithful while the apartment is stuffed full of secret boyfriends, one in every plausible hiding place. Each tap on a suspicious location exposes one of them. The visible silhouettes behind the pink and blue curtains are the obvious clues, but the puzzle punishes you for stopping there — the bonsai costume, the empty fridge and the open suitcase are the sneaky ones.

The two "sleeping" blond men on the bed and couch are actually decoys / the already-caught lovers; once you tap the curtain, one of them stands up to be scolded. The coffee table set with two plates and the suitcase are visual hints that more than one person has been living there. The boyfriend's burning head is the timer gauge — the longer you take, the angrier he gets.

There is no way to reason with the woman; she only smiles again once every lover is caught. Tapping her does nothing. The level completes automatically when all five hiding spots have been tapped.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: only tapping the two curtains. The pink and blue curtain silhouettes are just the obvious ones. You must also tap the bonsai figure, the fridge and the suitcase.
• Mistake: missing the fridge or the suitcase. If the banner will not complete, check whether the fridge doors are open and the pink suitcase is unlatched.
• Mistake: tapping the sleeping men directly. They are not the hidden lovers; the lovers are in the shadows, the bonsai, the fridge and the suitcase.

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