Tricky Test 2 Level 95
📝 Walkthrough
Overview
The level asks "Complete the equation." at the top. Six pictures are arranged in two rows of three: a blue fish, an orange star, and a pink-and-white striped candy in the top row; a green jellyfish, a deer head, and a red block of jelly/gelatin in the bottom row. At the bottom of the screen are three empty boxes laid out as a sum: box + box = box. There are no numbers, so this is not an arithmetic equation - it is a word equation. You have to drag the right pictures into the three boxes so that the names of the two left pictures combine to form the name of the third picture. The intended combination is jelly + fish = jellyfish.
- Difficulty: Regular
- Estimated moves: 3
Step-by-Step Solution
- Read the prompt "Complete the equation." and look at the six pictures. Say each picture's name out loud: fish, star, candy, jellyfish, deer, jelly (the red wobbly block).
- Look for two picture names that can be glued together to make the name of a third picture. Notice that "jelly" (the red gelatin block) + "fish" (the blue fish) combines to make "jellyfish" (the green multi-tentacled creature).
- Drag the red jelly block into the first (leftmost) box. It represents the word "Jelly".
- Drag the blue fish into the second (middle) box. It represents the word "Fish".
- Drag the green jellyfish into the third (result) box. It represents the combined word "Jellyfish".
- The game confirms the equation by labelling the three boxes "Jelly + Fish = Jellyfish", and the level clears. The star, candy, and deer are unused decoys.
Strategy & Reasoning
The puzzle is a rebus: pictures stand for words, and the equation is a word concatenation, not a number sum. Once you say the names aloud, the compound word jumps out: jelly + fish = jellyfish. This is the only pairing among the six pictures where two names fuse into the name of a third picture on the screen.
The other pictures are chosen to look tempting but to fail. "Star" has no obvious partner, "candy" does not combine with anything, and "deer" looks like it might pair with something (e.g. "deer" + ?) but no resulting picture is present. The red jelly block is easy to mistake for a generic red shape, but it is explicitly a jelly, which is the first half of "jellyfish".
Trying to treat this as a numerical puzzle (counting legs, colours, or shapes) goes nowhere, because the boxes are sized for pictures, not digits. The intended move is purely the wordplay.
Tips & Common Mistakes
- Mistake: Trying to solve it as a math sum by counting something in the pictures. Correct approach: Say the picture names aloud; it is a word equation.
- Mistake: Placing the jellyfish as one of the addends. Correct approach: Jellyfish is the RESULT; the addends are jelly and fish separately.
- Mistake: Dragging the star, candy, or deer into the boxes. Correct approach: Those are decoys; only jelly, fish, and jellyfish belong.
- Mistake: Not recognising the red block as "jelly". Correct approach: It is a wobbly red gelatin dessert = jelly; combine it with fish.