Brain Test 5 Level 117

Overview

Level 117 follows a green-skinned witch through a bottle-cleaning round and a riddle-based potion round. The first shows her holding an empty light-blue bottle covered in sparkles, with the prompt "Clean the bottle." The second shows a black cauldron full of green brew over logs, beside a riddle that reads "Three little green things, two something smells nice, two legs, and one of the last remaining," with four ingredient groups on the right: green sprouts, a frog, white daisies, and a bundle of herbs. The first round prepares the vessel, and the second decodes the riddle to choose the right cauldron ingredients.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 5

Step-by-Step Solution

1. In the bottle round, read "Clean the bottle." Look at the empty bottle in the witch's hand and the sparkles around its rim and body.
2. Check whether any residue or marks remain on the glass. Clean or wipe the bottle until the surface is clear and the sparkles indicate a clean vessel.
3. Leave the bottle ready for the potion; do not fill it yet, because the second round prepares the brew first.
4. When the bottle round clears, read the riddle in the cauldron round: "Three little green things, two something smells nice, two legs, and one of the last remaining."
5. Match the first clue, "three little green things," to the green sprout group on the right. These are the small round green ingredients, so add them to the cauldron.
6. Match "something smells nice" to the white daisies, the fragrant flowers in the group. Add the flowers as the two nice-smelling ingredients.
7. Match "two legs" to the frog; the frog supplies the leg ingredient the riddle describes. Add it to the brew.
8. Match the final clue, "one of the last remaining," to the herb bundle. Add that last ingredient to complete the potion.
9. Once every riddle clue has its matching ingredient in the cauldron, the brew settles and the level reaches its completion celebration.

Strategy & Reasoning

The two rounds split vessel preparation from recipe preparation. The bottle has to be clean before it can hold the finished potion, which is why the first round exists even though the cauldron does the brewing later. A dirty bottle would contaminate whatever is poured into it.

The riddle works by turning each phrase into one ingredient group. The clues are deliberately indirect, so the trick is to ignore the witch theme and read the literal traits: green color, fragrance, legs, and a remaining bundle. Each phrase maps to exactly one of the four groups on the right, and no ingredient should be left out once its clue is matched.

The rejected mark at the top of the cauldron scene shows that an early guess picked the wrong ingredient. Re-reading the clue after a rejection helps: if an ingredient does not satisfy the phrase's trait, it belongs to a different clue.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Do not pour the potion into the bottle before the cauldron recipe is finished; clean the vessel first, then brew.
• Do not match the frog to the "green things" clue; its trait in the riddle is the two legs, not its color.
• Do not add all four groups blindly; decode each riddle phrase to its own ingredient before dropping anything into the cauldron.