🧩 Level Information

• Level Number: 308
• Problem: Align to make smiles (Color is irrelevant. Align places to smile)
• Difficulty: Hard

🎯 Objective

Drag and swap the panels (parts of the face) to align them in the correct positions so that all faces become smiles. Do not be misled by color, and create combinations where expressions appear to be smiles.

📝 Steps to Solve

1. Check the panels on the screen containing parts of the face (eyes, mouth, contours, etc.) and determine which combinations will result in a 'smile'.
2. First, find the panel with a 'smiling mouth' and imagine the position of the face (eyes, contours) where that mouth fits naturally.
3. Ignore the color and consider the 'curve of the mouth', 'shape of the eyes', and 'orientation', then decide on a column (or row) that appears natural as a smile, and complete it from there.
4. Once the criteria for a smile is decided, swap the surrounding panels to rearrange the remaining facial parts in the same manner to make all of them smile.
5. Even if you want to align colors along the way, ignore it, and adjust positions based solely on whether the 'expression appears as a smile'.
6. The level is cleared once all the faces on the screen have smiling expressions.

💡 Hints

• Color does not serve as a hint at all. The first step is to abandon the notion of 'aligning the same color'.
• It is easier to think starting from the shape of the 'mouth'. Look for 'eye shapes and orientations' that match the smiling mouth.
• Instead of trying to align everything at once, first complete one smile and adjust the surroundings based on that standard.

🧠 Analysis and Key Points

The key to this problem is to recognize the misleading effect of 'color'. As the panel colors are randomly arranged, many players try to align the same colors. However, in this level, color is irrelevant, and the goal is simply to find combinations that look natural as faces and appear smiling. Especially, the shape of the mouth (whether it curves up or not) serves as the most obvious indicator. It's easier to solve if you use the mouth as a reference and determine the shape and position of matching eyes and contours. In puzzles involving panel swapping, it's common for the correct conditions to be related to 'meaning' (expression and orientation), like in this case, rather than just visual patterns (color, pattern). Therefore, this level can be said to require the skill to initially discern what sort of puzzle it is.

🔍 Common Mistakes

• Trying to align the 'color' of the panels and never reaching the correct answer.
• Being satisfied with only some faces smiling and not noticing that the others have frowns or odd expressions.
• Assuming it's correct because the colors are nicely aligned, even though the orientation of the eyes and mouth does not match.
• Being too fixated on a certain arrangement to the point of not trying flexible swaps.

🎉 Advice After Clearing

If you were able to align based purely on expressions, without being led astray by color, your observational skills are quite sharp. In the next level, also make it a habit to first discern 'what kind of alignment puzzle it is' and proceed with that intuition.

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