Brain Puzzle 3 Level 50
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 50 is a rescue-strength puzzle on the deck of a boat. The banner reads "Help the man rescue the woman." A giant pink octopus has grabbed a blonde woman in a purple dress with one tentacle, while another tentacle is wrapped around the ankle of a red-haired man in a suit, who is lying flat on the deck desperately holding the woman's hand. He cries "I can't hold on much longer!" and a stamina bar across the top is draining. Scattered around the deck are a can of spinach, a pair of orange work gloves, a Gatorade-style energy bottle, a grill with meat, a fisherman sitting with a rod, a fish hanging on the rail, and a sailor in a cap who is crying and hugging himself by the railing. The solution is to gear the man up so his grip and strength stop fading, anchor him to the mast, and let the seemingly weak sailor join the fight.
- Difficulty: Hard
- Estimated moves: 6
Step-by-Step Solution
- Read the situation. The man is being pulled in two directions: the woman in one hand and the octopus around his ankle. The red stamina bar at the top is draining, so you must boost him fast rather than just wait.
- Put the orange work gloves on the man. The pair of orange gloves lies on the deck. Drag them onto his hands so he has a better grip on the woman's wrist. He is shown wearing them in the next stage.
- Give him the spinach and the energy drink. The can of spinach on the deck and the Gatorade bottle by the grill both disappear as he consumes them. The spinach gives him a Popeye-style burst of strength, and the energy drink refuels his stamina, slowing the drain on the top bar.
- Anchor him to the mast. Use the ship's anchor and rope to tie the man to the wooden mast on the left, so the octopus can no longer drag him backward over the rail. In the later frames a chain/anchor line is fastened to the mast and he ends up suspended from it.
- Get the sailor into the fight. The sailor by the railing looks like a sniveling coward, but tap him and he dives into the water and wraps both arms around the lower octopus tentacle, straining to hold it back. His sobbing was a cover; he is the strongest person on board.
- Break the tentacle gripping the woman. Once the man is anchored, gloved and strengthened, and the sailor is holding the sea tentacle, the tentacle around the woman is exposed and gets burned/charred until it releases her.
- Pull her to safety. With the grip broken, the man pulls the woman onto the deck. They collapse together with floating heart sparkles, and the "Completed" state triggers.
Strategy & Reasoning
The puzzle is a resource-to-strength conversion. The stamina bar is the game's way of telling you the man's grip is a finite resource, so every object that visibly improves him must be used before the bar empties. The gloves fix grip, the spinach and energy drink fix strength and stamina, and the anchor fixes leverage — without being tied to the mast, no amount of strength helps because he himself gets pulled off the boat. This is why the anchor step is non-obvious but essential.
The big misdirection is the sailor. Players assume the crying, hugging figure by the rail is useless, but the final frame shows him standing in the water literally wrestling the octopus tentacle — his apparent weakness is the joke. The fisherman, the hanging fish, and the grill with meat are either bystanders or consumed supplies; the meat on the grill vanishes as part of fueling the effort, but it is not the decisive action. The reason you do not try to pry the tentacle off the woman directly is that two tentacles are involved (one on her, one on his ankle), so someone has to deal with the sea one while the anchored man pulls.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: just holding on and waiting. Tapping the woman or the man does nothing; the stamina bar keeps draining. You must actively equip the gloves, food and drink.
- Mistake: ignoring the crying sailor. He looks pathetic by the rail, but he is the one who physically wrestles the underwater tentacle. Tap him to send him in.
- Mistake: forgetting to anchor the man. Even with gloves and spinach, if he is not tied to the mast the octopus keeps dragging him. The anchor/rope to the mast is the step that makes him a fixed rescue point.
Note: solution steps are based on visible frames only.