Brain Up: Tricky Quiz

Phone / tablet

Tap and drag anything on screen; the answer is often an object you can move, not the button you're being pointed at.

Desktop

Same idea with the mouse: click, and click-and-drag objects, since a lot of solutions involve moving something.

Levels

Numbered levels, one trick each.

When a question looks impossible, the question itself is usually the puzzle; read it once as written, then again as if every word is a trap.

1. Drag before you think. Half the tricks are physical: move the object, the text, the character. Try dragging every element before you commit to an answer.
2. Reread the question literally. 'Which is the biggest' might mean the biggest word. The wording is where the trap lives.
3. Look at the edges. Things hide behind the question box, under buttons and just off the visible area. Poke the corners.
4. Take the wrong answer fast. A wrong guess costs you seconds and usually hints at what the game wanted. Don't stare for five minutes.
5. Step away when stuck. These puzzles crack on a fresh look. Close it, come back later, and the trick often jumps out.

If you've played Brain Test, you know the format: a scene, a question, a sneaky answer. Brain Up doesn't reinvent it, and it isn't trying to. What it delivers is a fresh batch of setups with a slightly cheekier tone, and on YouTube Playables it opens in a tab with nothing to install, which for a game you'll play in five-minute bursts matters more than it sounds. Where Brain Test wins is polish and sheer volume; it has years of levels. If you've never played either, start with whichever is closer to hand. If you finished Brain Test and want more, this is a decent second helping, not a new dish.

Every one of these puzzles runs on the same bug in your head: you read the question, you form a plan, and you stop looking at the screen. The game hides the answer in the part you stopped looking at. That's why kids often beat adults here; they haven't learned to trust the question yet. Getting good means deliberately undoing that habit. Look at the scene before the text, touch things before you reason, and treat every instruction as a suspect. It feels dumb for the first ten levels and then you're solving them in five seconds.