Tricky Test 2 Level 106

Overview

The prompt at the top reads "Find the person with a hat." The screen shows four pixel-art people walking left-to-right across a grey crosswalk, with green bushes and a blue sky behind them. Looking closely, none of the four is wearing a hat: they all have plain hair (brown, black, or long). Tapping any of the four people does nothing. The trick is that the camera is zoomed in so tightly that the "person with a hat" is actually outside the visible frame. You have to pinch-to-zoom out with two fingers to reveal the larger scene.

• Difficulty: Regular
• Estimated moves: 1 (pinch out / zoom out)

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Look at the four people on the crosswalk. Confirm that none of them is wearing a hat — they only have hair.
2. Do NOT tap any of the four people; that will not work.
3. Place two fingers on the screen and pinch out (zoom out / spread your two fingers apart) to shrink the current view.
4. As you zoom out, the four people become tiny, and the rest of the scene comes into view: a giant brown hat with a white band, two large eyes, and a blue shirt appear above them.
5. Keep zooming out until the whole giant figure is visible. The "person with a hat" is this large figure wearing the brown fedora; the four tiny pedestrians are standing inside a small picture / screen in front of him.
6. The level completes automatically once the hat-wearing figure is revealed.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle hides an object by changing the camera zoom. At the default zoom, you only see four small people and no hat, so you hunt for a hat on one of them and find nothing. The assumption being challenged is "the person with a hat is one of the four visible people."

Once you pinch out, the scale of the scene changes: the four pedestrians are revealed to be miniature, and a giant person wearing a brown hat has been sitting just outside the original frame the whole time. This is a classic Tricky Test "the answer is off-screen, change the view" trick.

Tapping the people, swiping them, or tilting the phone fails, because the people themselves are not wearing hats. The only way to bring the hat-wearing person into view is to zoom out.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: Tapping each of the four people looking for a hidden hat. Correct approach: None of them wears a hat; the hat is outside the current view.
• Mistake: Trying to zoom in instead of out. Correct approach: Pinch with two fingers to zoom OUT and shrink the scene.
• Mistake: Giving up after one small zoom. Correct approach: Keep spreading your fingers until the large brown hat and the giant figure fully appear.
• Mistake: Expecting the "person with a hat" to be one of the four pedestrians. Correct approach: It is a separate giant figure revealed only after zooming out.