Game Is Hard Level 145 Breakdown
What You See
The screen shows a counter at the top, a handful of purple circles, and three purple squares, with the hint "boxes can fall, balls can't." A sub-hint appears later: "tap to turn to boxes." The circles are balls, the squares are boxes, and gravity only applies to boxes.
The counter tracks how many items remain, and the target is 5/5. Everything on screen is a candidate to remove — you just have to convert balls into boxes first so the shake can claim them.
Why You're Stuck
I shook the phone, watched three boxes fall, and then hit a wall: I had six balls left and no way to remove them. "Balls can't fall," so shaking did nothing, and I didn't see a button to delete them. I kept shaking and resetting, assuming I'd misread the target.
What I missed was the "tap to turn to boxes" hint. I could convert a ball into a box and then shake it away. The mechanic was hiding in a second rule I hadn't noticed.
The Answer
First shake the phone to drop the three starting boxes, leaving six balls. Then tap one ball to turn it into a box. Shake the phone again and that newly-created box falls off, leaving exactly five balls — the counter reads 5/5 and the level clears.
How to Beat It
Shake, convert, shake.
- Shake to clear the boxes. Tilt or shake the phone so the three purple squares fall off the screen, leaving the six balls.
- Tap a ball into a box. Touch one of the remaining circles — it turns into a purple square, so now you have five balls and one box.
- Shake again. The new box falls away like the first three, and you're left with exactly five balls. The counter hits 5/5 and the level completes.
Troubleshooting
- Shaking won't remove the balls: balls can't fall — only boxes do. Tap a ball first to convert it into a box.
- The counter won't reach 5: make sure you converted a ball into a box and then shook again so that box actually dropped.
- I have too few items: if you converted too many balls into boxes and shook them away, restart and only convert one ball.
Why It Works
The level splits objects into two classes with opposite physics — boxes obey gravity, balls ignore it — and then hides the win behind a conversion rule. "Boxes can fall, balls can't" tells you the first half, but the "tap to turn to boxes" hint is the second half that lets you bend the rules. The puzzle is really a state-change problem: you can't remove balls directly, so you reclassify one as a box and let gravity do the work.
The Rule to Carry Forward
When you can't remove an object directly, look for a way to change its type or state first. "Can't fall" just means "not a box yet."
- Two rules beat one: the hint has two parts — read both before acting.
- Convert to remove: if something is stuck, turn it into something removable.
- Shake is a physics input: device motion is a real tool in this series, not just tilt.
Do it in order: shake once to drop the three boxes, tap exactly one ball to convert it, then shake a second time. Converting more than one ball will undershoot your count.
Shaking repeatedly hoping the balls fall. They can't — tap a ball to turn it into a box first, then shake to drop the box and reach exactly five.
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Game Is Hard Level 145 FAQ
How do I get five balls in Game Is Hard Level 145?
Shake to drop the three starting boxes, tap one ball to turn it into a box, then shake again so that box falls, leaving exactly five balls.
Why won't the balls fall in Game Is Hard Level 145?
Because only boxes fall when you shake. Tap a ball to convert it into a box first, then shake to remove it.
What does the counter mean in Game Is Hard Level 145?
It tracks how many items remain on screen. You need to end at 5/5 by removing the three boxes and one converted ball.
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