🧩 Level Info

• Level Number: 378
• Problem Statement: It's ants on the screen, so 0 is correct
• Difficulty: easy

🎯 Objective

It seems like a question to count characters on the screen, but in reality, you clear it by entering "0" without counting anything.

📝 Steps to Solve

1. Carefully read the problem statement and realize that the sentence "It's ants on the screen, so 0 is correct" itself is a hint.
2. Instead of assuming it's a typical 'How many ___ are there?' problem, accept the problem statement as it is.
3. Without trying to count the characters (humans or animals) on the screen, interpret it as meaning "There are only ants = the count target is 0".
4. Tap the answer input field and enter the number '0'.
5. Press the confirmation button (OK, etc.) to clear the stage.

💡 Hints

• The sentence of the problem statement itself tells you the 'answer'. Read it carefully.
• Try taking the part 'It's ants on the screen' and '0 is correct' at face value.
• There's no need to count anything. The number to input is already written at the end of the problem statement. The answer is '0'.

🧠 Explanation & Points

This stage is a complete wordplay trick problem that takes advantage of the player's preconception of 'I have to count the stuff on the screen'. From the flow of many counting puzzles, you might instinctively try to count the characters or objects on the screen. However, the problem statement clearly states 'It's ants on the screen, so 0 is correct'. In other words, the objects displayed on the screen are not truly what should be counted (or there's nothing to count), and as a result, the answer is '0', just as stated - it's a meta-structural problem. In Brain Test, there are cases where the answer is written directly in the problem statement or title, and this level is of that type. A careful reading of the text is required, and the key is to shift your mindset from presuming 'puzzle = complex operations' to 'trusting the text as it is'.

🔍 Common Mistakes

• Counting the characters (people, animals, insects, etc.) on the screen and inputting that total.
• Trying to count just the number of ants because of the word 'ants'.
• Not carefully reading the problem statement and jumping to the conclusion that it's a typical 'How many are there?' kind of problem.
• Instead of 0, trying to input some number like 1 or 2 on a whim.
• Questioning if '0' is really okay, and wasting time by inputting different numbers repeatedly.

🎉 Advice After Clearing

If you could trust the problem statement as it is, this was a stage you could solve in an instant. In Brain Test, sometimes the best strategy is to read the text carefully before even looking at the screen. In the next level, try to challenge without being bound by preconceptions.

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