Tricky Test 2 Level 102

Overview

The prompt at the top reads "Complete the equation." The screen shows six flat icons arranged in two rows of three, followed by three empty boxes on the bottom row connected by a "+" on the left and an "=" on the right: [ box ] + [ box ] = [ box ]. The six pictures are: top row — a rain cloud with drops, a sun, and a rainbow; bottom row — a jacket/coat, a pink bow tie, and a boot. This is a rebus puzzle: you must drag two of the pictures into the first two boxes so that their English names combine (like a word equation) to name the third picture, which goes in the final box. The clothing items are deliberate distractors.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 3 (drag three pictures into the boxes)

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Name each picture out loud in your head: rain cloud = "rain", sun = "sun", rainbow = "rainbow", jacket/coat = "coat" or "jacket", bow tie = "bow", boot = "boot".
2. Look for two words that glue together to make a longer word that matches one of the other pictures. The pair that works is RAIN + BOW.
3. Drag the rain cloud picture into the first empty box (the left box, before the "+").
4. Drag the pink bow tie picture into the second empty box (the middle box, between "+" and "=").
5. Drag the rainbow picture into the third empty box (the right box, after the "=").
6. The equation now reads: rain cloud + bow tie = rainbow. The game accepts this as the correct rebus and advances to the next level.

Strategy & Reasoning

This is a compound-word rebus. The trick is to treat each picture as the first syllable / word it names, then look for two of those words that concatenate into the name of a third picture.

RAIN (from the rain cloud) plus BOW (from the bow tie) literally spells RAINBOW — which is exactly the rainbow picture sitting in the top-right. That is the only clean compound among the six pictures.

The other pictures are red herrings: "sun", "coat/jacket", and "boot" do not combine with any other pictured word to name a third pictured object. You cannot make "rainbow" from the sun, the jacket, or the boot, so those must be left on the board untouched.

Trying to drag the sun, jacket, or boot into any box and expect it to fit fails, because no pair of those words forms another picture's name. The sun and the rainbow might tempt you (sun + rainbow?), but that is not a real compound and the game rejects it.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: Using the sun, jacket, or boot as one of the operands. Correct approach: Only the rain cloud and the bow tie combine to name another picture.
• Mistake: Putting the rainbow in the first or second box. Correct approach: The rainbow is the result (after the "="), because RAIN + BOW = RAINBOW.
• Mistake: Dragging a picture into the wrong box order. Correct approach: Order matters — rain cloud goes first, bow tie second, rainbow third.
• Mistake: Overthinking it as a math equation with numbers. Correct approach: It is a word rebus; say the picture names and concatenate them.