Brain Test 5 Level 40

Overview

This level asks a riddle whose answer is a clock. The wordplay turns on the fact that a clock has "hands" — its hour and minute pointers — but has no arms in the body sense. The solution is to recognize that double meaning and select the clock as the object that matches the description.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the riddle description carefully, noting the body words it uses such as hands and arms, and watch for a term that has a second everyday meaning.
2. List the objects shown around the board and compare each one against the description, looking for something that carries "hands" without being a living body.
3. Recognize the clock: its pointers are called hands, which satisfies the "has hands" part, while it has no arms in the physical body sense.
4. Select the clock as the answer to the riddle rather than picking a person or animal that would have real arms as well as hands.
5. When the correct object is chosen, the checkmark appears and the riddle level completes.
6. Run each board object against both halves of the clue: it must carry hands in some sense and yet have no arms, which removes any living person or animal from consideration.
7. Once you recognize clock hands as pointers, select the clock itself rather than an object merely near it; the riddle resolves on that double meaning, and the checkmark confirms the chosen object.
8. Do not settle for another object that has a similar feature; only the clock satisfies the hands-without-arms wordplay, and the checkmark waits for that exact selection.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle works on a homonym, a word that means two different things. "Hands" normally belong to a person, but clock hands are the pointers that show the time, and the riddle leans on that shift. Once you hear "hands" and immediately think of a body, you look for a creature, but the trick is that the non-living object also has hands in its own vocabulary.
The "no arms" half of the clue reinforces this: a real person or animal with hands would also have arms, so the answer cannot be a living being. A clock, by contrast, has hands and never arms, which fits both sides of the description at once. The other objects on the board are there to distract with ordinary appearances; none of them reuses the word hands the way a clock does. The riddle resolves the moment you make that double-meaning connection, and selecting the clock releases the checkmark.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Look for a word with two meanings; the riddle turns on "hands" being clock pointers, not body hands.
• Do not choose a person or animal; anything with real hands would also have arms, which breaks the clue.
• Confirm the object has no arms as well as hands; the clock satisfies both halves of the description.