Brain Puzzle 3 Level 71

Overview

Level 71 is a swamp-rescue puzzle. The banner reads "Help the woman get away." At night in a dark swamp, a giant red-eyed crocodile has its jaws clamped shut on a woman in a red hoodie, who is screaming "I can't hold on much longer." The setting is eerie: a cross on a grave, a crocodile warning sign, a rotting wooden shack, a skeleton sitting on a chair holding a fishing rod, a glowing purple mushroom, a pelican standing in the water, a broken red umbrella and a rock. The woman cannot pry the croc's teeth open herself, so you must use what is around to get help.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 4

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the scene. The croc's jaws are locked around the woman. You cannot physically force them with her strength, so look for objects that summon help or distract the beast.

1. Put the skeleton in the croc's mouth. The skeleton sitting on the chair by the shack with a fishing rod is removed from its seat. In the next frame it has been shoved into the crocodile's open mouth next to the woman, wedging the jaws and distracting the animal.

1. Summon the ghost from the grave. Tap the cross on the mound. The spirit of the fisherman rises as a green glowing ghost floating above the swamp, adding supernatural weight to the rescue.

1. Use the glowing purple mushroom. The purple magic mushroom on the ground is the key. It summons a muscular caveman-style hero. In the final frame he has leaped onto the crocodile's snout.

1. Pry the jaws open. The strong hero sits on the croc's head and works a rope/lever to force the massive jaws apart. The woman is freed and scrambles over to the shack.

1. Get to safety. Once she is out of the teeth and standing by the hut, the confetti pops and the "Completed" banner appears.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle is an "use the environment to summon a stronger rescuer" trick. The woman is trapped in a croc's jaws, and no one normal can pry those teeth. The dead fisherman's skeleton and his grave are the local "rescuers," but a skeleton and a ghost alone cannot lift a crocodile — the glowing purple mushroom is the magic item that calls in the muscle. Putting the skeleton in the croc's mouth buys a moment by distracting and wedging the jaws while the ghost floats up and the hero arrives.

The reason the pelican, the umbrella and the rock are there is atmosphere and distraction candidates; the working chain is skeleton-in-mouth → grave-ghost → magic-mushroom-hero → pry-jaws. The punchline is that a nearly naked muscular man is the one who physically opens the crocodile, turning the horror scene into a absurd rescue.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: trying to pull the woman out directly. She cannot overpower the croc; you must summon help.
• Mistake: forgetting the skeleton. Moving the fishing skeleton into the croc's mouth is the distraction that buys time.
• Mistake: ignoring the glowing mushroom. The purple mushroom is the magic item that summons the strong hero; without him the jaws never open.

Note: solution steps are based on visible frames only.