Brain Puzzle 3 Level 4

Overview

Level 4 tasks you with "Helping employees leave the company." It is 22:30 at the office and a burly security guard stands cross-armed in front of the glass exit door while the boss barks "Everyone, stay and work overtime; no one leaves." Three tired employees clutching briefcases wait behind, marked with blue exhaustion lines. The room is full of possible tools: an electrician on a ladder at the breaker box, a red evening dress laid on a cubicle desk, a desk fan, the boss's framed portrait on the wall, scissors, a notebook, and a vent. The puzzle is to get all three employees past the guard without him noticing.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 4

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Understand the setup. The guard is the obstacle at the lit glass door; the digital clock reads 22:30. You cannot fight or move him directly, so you must distract him and remove the surveillance pressure. The three briefcase employees are the people who need to slip out.

1. Tap the desk fan on the lower-right cubicle. The fan turns on and aims a strong gust of air across the room toward the exit. The wind catches the guard's cap and blows it off; the bottom line reads "Oh, my hat!" and he turns to deal with it. This pulls his attention away from the door.

1. Tap the red evening dress on the cubicle desk. The dress is a disguise. Once tapped it is put on by the worker on the ladder, who now looks like a lady in a backless red gown — someone who can confidently walk out the entrance without being treated as an "employee skipping overtime." This creates a believable decoy exit.

1. Tap the boss's framed portrait on the wall beside the door. The portrait flips to a blank empty frame, removing the watching-eyes pressure that makes the guard enforce the overtime order. With the boss no longer visibly watching, the guard stops policing the exit so strictly.

1. Let the employees slip out. With the guard distracted by his lost hat and the surveillance gone, the three briefcase employees walk out through the glass door. The office empties, and the closing line asks "How did the office become empty in the blink of an eye?" before the red "Completed" ribbon appears.

Strategy & Reasoning

This is a classic "sneak past the guard" puzzle disguised as an office scene. The guard cannot be overpowered, and the employees cannot simply walk through him while he is staring at the door. The solution therefore works on two fronts at once: a physical distraction that turns the guard's head, and a social/visual disguise that makes an exit look legitimate. The fan supplies the distraction (blowing his hat off), while the red dress supplies the disguise (a "woman" leaving is not an employee on overtime).

Removing the boss's portrait is the third, subtler piece: the guard's whole reason for blocking the door is the boss's command. Once the portrait is gone, the enforcement slackens. The game makes each correct tap obvious by changing the scene — the fan starts blowing, the dress relocates onto the worker, and the portrait empties — so you can confirm progress visually rather than guessing.

There is no benefit to tapping the breaker box, the scissors, or the vent directly; those are set dressing. The winning combination is distraction plus disguise plus removed surveillance, executed so the employees vanish before the guard recovers his hat.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: trying to walk the employees out before distracting the guard. While he is staring at the door with crossed arms, he blocks everyone. Turn the fan on first so his hat blows off and he looks away.
• Mistake: leaving the red dress on the desk. It looks like clutter, but it is the disguise that lets someone exit as a non-employee. Tap it so it gets put on — without the disguise the exit looks suspicious.
• Mistake: forgetting the boss's portrait. Even with the guard distracted, the boss's watching portrait keeps the overtime pressure on. Tap the portrait to blank it; only then does the office fully empty and the "Completed" ribbon appear.