Brain Fuse: Tricky Puzzles

Every puzzle in Brain Fuse looks easy. That is the trap.

80 hand-drawn levels of trick questions, riddles and brain teasers that quietly break their own rules. You read a simple question. You answer it in two seconds. You are wrong. Then you sit there staring at your phone until it clicks — and you laugh, because the answer was in front of you the whole time.

▸ THE QUESTIONS DO NOT PLAY FAIR

"Tap the smallest animal."
"How many letters are in 'the answer'?"
"Wake the baby — without touching him."
"Do absolutely nothing for five seconds."
"There are three mistakes in this sentance."

Read that last one again.

▸ YOUR WHOLE PHONE IS THE CONTROLLER

Some levels want a tap. Others want you to drag things clean off the page, hold three buttons at once, tilt the phone, shake it, pinch it, scratch the screen with your finger, or type a word. A few want you to stop touching it altogether. The solution is never hidden inside the puzzle — it is hidden in what you assumed.

▸ FIVE CHAPTERS, 80 LEVELS

1. Warm-Up Desk — Look twice. Nothing here is quite what it claims to be.
2. Kitchen Chaos — Everything moves, combines, and occasionally catches fire.
3. Wild Outdoors — Put the screen down and pick the phone up.
4. Gadget Lab — One finger will not be enough.
5. Mind Games — The page stops pretending. Now the game is the puzzle.

▸ DRAWN, NOT RENDERED

No glossy 3D, no spinning coins, no flashing banners. Everything is thick black marker on lined notepaper, the way you would sketch a puzzle for a friend during a long meeting.

▸ ALSO WORTH KNOWING

• Plays completely offline — no signal, no problem
• Stuck? A hint nudges you in the right direction without handing over the answer
• Solve one without a hint and you earn a bonus
• Really stuck? Skip it, keep going, and come back to it whenever you like
• Your progress saves itself
• Sound and vibration can both be switched off
• No timer, no lives, no energy bar — think about it for as long as you want

BrainFuse is for anyone who likes trick questions, lateral thinking, logic riddles, IQ puzzles and brain training games — and who does not mind being fooled twelve times in a row.

Fair warning: the answer is obvious. Just never the obvious one.

Go on. Blow a fuse.