Tricky Test 2 Level 28

Overview

Level 28 opens with a hand holding a smartphone in the center of a dark play area, and the prompt asks "Where is my microphone?" The phone itself fills most of the scene, with a few small app icons visible on its orange screen, while the top bar shows the remaining heart lives and the level number. There is no separate microphone object drawn anywhere on the board, which is the first sign that the answer is a wordplay trick rather than a hidden tap target. The level tests whether you treat the on-screen phone as a zoomable picture instead of a fixed illustration.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated moves: 1

Step-by-Step Solution

1. Read the prompt literally: the question asks for a microphone, but the only large object in front of you is the phone held in the hand. Do not start tapping around the dark background looking for a small mic icon, because none is drawn there.
2. Place two fingers on the smartphone itself, one near the upper part of the screen and one near the lower part, so your pinch gesture lands on the device rather than on the surrounding empty space.
3. Perform a zoom-out pinch: draw your two fingers inward toward each other as if you were shrinking an image on a touchscreen. The phone will begin to reduce in size the same way a picture does when you pinch it smaller.
4. Keep the pinch going and repeat the shrinking motion several times. The phone does not vanish after one gesture; it needs to be brought down to a very small, almost toy-like size before the level accepts the answer.
5. Watch the phone as it shrinks. Once it becomes a tiny phone sitting between your two fingers, the wordplay lands: a "micro" phone is a microphone, and the level clears to the completion screen.
6. If the phone does not react, make sure both fingers are actually touching the phone body and that you are moving them together rather than apart; spreading them apart would zoom in and make the phone larger instead of smaller.
7. If the first pinch only shifts the phone slightly, lift your fingers, reset them on the phone body, and shrink it again in a second motion. Each pinch removes a little more size, so patience with repeated gestures is what brings the device down to the required miniature scale.

Strategy & Reasoning

The puzzle works on the split of the word "microphone" into "micro" and "phone." The board already gives you the second half in the form of the handset, so the missing half is the idea of making it micro, or very small. Most players hunt for a literal microphone shape because that is how ordinary hidden-object levels behave, but this title consistently asks you to reinterpret the object on screen rather than search the background.

Zooming in fails because it moves away from the "micro" idea: a huge phone is the opposite of a tiny one. Dragging the phone around the screen also fails, since the game is not asking you to relocate the handset. The only gesture that changes the phone's scale is the pinch zoom-out, which is why the solution relies on treating the illustration as an interactive image rather than a static prop.

The level is short once the wordplay clicks, but it teaches a recurring habit in this game: when the prompt names an object that is not visibly present, look at the objects that are present and ask whether their name can be changed by an action such as shrinking, splitting, or moving them. In this case the whole answer lives inside the phrase itself, and the gesture that matches the phrase is the one that shrinks the phone.

Tips & Common Mistakes

• Mistake: tapping the dark background or the app icons on the phone looking for a hidden microphone icon. Correct approach: put both fingers on the phone body itself and use the pinch gesture instead of searching the empty space.
• Mistake: zooming in by spreading the fingers apart, which enlarges the phone and keeps the level stuck. Correct approach: pinch inward to shrink the phone down to its tiny size.
• Mistake: giving up after one small shrink. Correct approach: keep repeating the zoom-out until the phone is visibly miniature; the completion trigger only fires at that final small size.