Brain Puzzle 3 Level 51

Overview

Level 51 is a hidden-object shoplifting puzzle set in a "Discount" supermarket. The banner reads "Find all the stolen items." A sweating woman with a heavily pregnant belly is slumped on the floor at the checkout, beside a canvas tote bag and a dust cloud; scattered around her are a peach, a lipstick tube, a Russian matryoshka doll, a bucket of green paint and a broom. A silver-haired cashier in an apron stands behind the till, which reads 0. The joke twist is that the "pregnant woman" is actually a disguised shoplifter, and every part of the disguise — the hair, the belly, the clothes — is stuffed with stolen goods. Your job is to strip the disguises off one by one and collect everything hidden on his body.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 5

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the objective. "Find all the stolen items." The checkout screen starts at 0 and will climb each time a hidden item is recovered, so you know you are not done until the total stops rising.

1. Pull off the thief's hair / wig. Tap the long blonde hair on the supposed pregnant woman. It comes off to reveal a bald, middle-aged man underneath — the pregnancy was a cross-dressing disguise. Several items fall out and the register jumps from 0 to several hundred.

1. Tap the fake pregnant belly. The big round belly is a fake padding stuffed with goods. Tap it and it deflates flat, dropping more stolen merchandise onto the floor; the register keeps climbing.

1. Remove his shoe and sock. Tap his foot; the shoe comes off and a socked foot is exposed, revealing another concealed item. He ends up sitting there in just one sock.

1. Open the canvas tote bag. The bag beside him is not a shopping bag — it is full of smuggled goods. Tap it open to reveal items such as a wristwatch stashed inside, adding to the running total.

1. Collect the items already on the floor. The peach, the lipstick, the matryoshka doll and the other dropped objects are the goods that fell out during the search; tap each to ring it up.

1. Watch the till total climb. As every hidden item is found, the register runs up to the full bill (over 20,000). Once all stolen goods are recovered, the scene cuts to the cashier triumphantly holding the broom with money raining down, and the "Completed" state triggers.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle teaches you to read a person's silhouette for implausible bulges. A "pregnant woman" slumped on a supermarket floor while sweating is already suspicious, and the game wants you to treat every unnatural shape as hidden contraband rather than as body parts. The hair, the belly, the shoe and the tote bag are four separate hiding places, and the till total is your scoreboard: as long as the number keeps going up, there is still something concealed somewhere on him.

The reason the disguise works at all is that customers instinctively accept a pregnant woman's bulk as real. Once you pull the wig and belly, the ruse collapses and the hidden goods spill out. The paint bucket, the broom and the shelf goods are set dressing — the broom in particular becomes the cashier's triumphant prop at the end rather than a tool you use on the thief. The bottom punchline ("people still need real skills—can't just rely on looks") confirms the theme: the shoplifter relied on his fake appearance, and the cashier saw through it.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: only tapping the items already lying on the floor. The peach, lipstick and doll are only the spillage. The bigger loot is still on his body — the wig, the fake belly and the bag. Keep tapping him.
• Mistake: believing he is really pregnant. Do not feel bad about poking the belly; it is fake padding stuffed with merchandise. Tap it to deflate it.
• Mistake: stopping when the first items are found. Watch the register. If the total is still climbing, more hidden items remain (the shoe, the bag). You are only finished when the till reads the full amount and the victory scene appears.