Brain Puzzle 3 Level 78
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
Level 78 is a winter-rescue gag. The banner reads "Help The Girl Melt The Ice On Her Tongue." On a snowy sidewalk, a girl in a pink hoodie has foolishly licked a frozen lamppost and her tongue is stuck fast to the metal pole. She wails "Help! My Tongue Is Stuck To The Pole." Her red-haired friend laughs while filming on a phone. Around the scene are a smiling cartoon sun in the sky, a round standing mirror covered in snow, a megaphone on top of a coffee/food truck, a hot-dog cart with a guy dozing, a blue bottle inside the truck, and a loose stone. You must warm the spot where her tongue meets the metal.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated moves: 3
Step-by-Step Solution
- Read the problem. Her tongue is frozen to the cold pole. Pulling will tear it; you have to gently warm the ice where it sticks.
- Clear the snow off the round mirror. The standing round mirror is dusted with snow. Brush / knock the snow off so the glass is clear.
- Angle the mirror to reflect the sun onto her tongue. Tilt the mirror so it catches the sunlight from the smiling sun overhead and shines a focused beam onto her frozen tongue. In the later frame a sunbeam is reflected right onto her face.
- Warm the spot. The reflected sunbeam (with the warmth from the food-truck area) melts the thin layer of ice on her tongue.
- The lamp goes dark. The lamppost light switches off as you work — it stops drawing attention / stops adding glare.
- She comes free. Once the ice melts, her tongue pulls away from the pole. In the final photo she is kneeling on the sidewalk, rubbing her freed tongue, laughing. The "Completed" banner drops.
Strategy & Reasoning
The puzzle is the classic "tongue stuck to a frozen pole" problem, solved the safe way: apply gentle warmth rather than pulling. The only heat source available is the sun, so you use the round mirror as a magnifying/reflecting glass to focus sunlight exactly onto the stuck tongue. Clearing the snow off the mirror is the first step, then angling it so the beam lands on her mouth.
The reason the hot-dog cart, the megaphone and the dozing guy are there is atmosphere and misdirection — you do not need hot water from the truck or noise from the megaphone. The loose stone on the ground is a decoy; do not use it to chip the ice, which would hurt her. The mirror-and-sun trick is the whole solution: focus warm light on the frozen tongue until it releases.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: pulling her off the pole. That would tear her tongue; warm the ice instead.
- Mistake: forgetting to clear the mirror. Snow on the glass reflects nothing — wipe it first, then angle it.
- Mistake: throwing the stone or using the megaphone. Those are distractions; only the focused sunlight melts the tongue.
Note: solution steps are based on visible frames only.