Bird Find Level 288 Answers & Walkthrough Guide
Welcome to the Bird Find Level 288 answers page. If you have been stuck at this level wondering whether it takes a bird or an egg, this is the page you want. Bird Find Level 288 is a 10×10 grid with 25 squares filled in from the start, and it needs 5 birds and 5 eggs in every row and every column. There are 5 of the = and × clues across the board, and they carry a lot of the early work.
Press See Solution for the finished grid, or use Step by step to watch all 75 placements appear one at a time. Every move is also written out underneath with the reason it has to go that way, so nothing here needs guessing.
About the game
Bird Find is a quiet binary logic puzzle where every square ends up holding either a bird or an egg, and you work out which by deduction rather than luck. Birds and eggs come out even in each row and column, three of the same kind never sit together in a line, and no two rows or columns end up identical. Squares joined by an = match each other, squares joined by a × are opposites, and there is no timer rushing you through any of it.
Bird Find Level 288 Solution
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Press See Solution for the finished grid, or Step by step to work through it one move at a time.
Read all 75 steps as text
- R7C5 is 🥚 egg. R7C6 holds a bird and the × means the two must differ, so R7C5 is an egg.Different link
- R7C7 is 🥚 egg. R6C7 holds a bird and the × means the two must differ, so R7C7 is an egg.Different link
- R1C3 is 🥚 egg. R1C1 and R1C2 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R1C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R2C6 is 🥚 egg. R2C7 and R2C8 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R2C6 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R2C9 is 🥚 egg. R2C7 and R2C8 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R2C9 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R3C5 is 🥚 egg. R3C6 and R3C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R3C5 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R3C8 is 🥚 egg. R3C6 and R3C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R3C8 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C8 is 🥚 egg. R4C9 and R4C10 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R4C8 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C3 is 🥚 egg. R5C4 and R5C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R5C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C6 is 🥚 egg. R5C4 and R5C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R5C6 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R6C5 is 🥚 egg. R6C6 and R6C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R6C5 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R6C8 is 🥚 egg. R6C6 and R6C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R6C8 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R10C8 is 🥚 egg. R10C9 and R10C10 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R10C8 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C1 is 🥚 egg. R9C1 and R10C1 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R8C1 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C5 is 🐦 bird. R6C5 and R7C5 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R8C5 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R8C3 is 🥚 egg. R8C4 and R8C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R8C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C6 is 🥚 egg. R8C4 and R8C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R8C6 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R1C7 is 🥚 egg. R2C7 and R3C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R1C7 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C7 is 🥚 egg. R2C7 and R3C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R4C7 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C6 is 🐦 bird. R4C7 and R4C8 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R4C6 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R5C8 is 🐦 bird. R3C8 and R4C8 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R5C8 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R2C4 is 🥚 egg. R2C3 and R2C5 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R2C4 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C2 is 🐦 bird. R8C1 and R8C3 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R8C2 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R4C4 is 🥚 egg. R3C4 and R5C4 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R4C4 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R9C4 is 🥚 egg. R8C4 and R10C4 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R9C4 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C9 is 🥚 egg. R4C9 and R6C9 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R5C9 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R10C2 is 🥚 egg. Row 10 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R10C2.Row & column count
- R10C3 is 🥚 egg. Row 10 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R10C3.Row & column count
- R9C3 is 🐦 bird. R8C3 and R10C3 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R9C3 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R9C2 is 🥚 egg. R9C1 and R9C3 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R9C2 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R10C5 is 🥚 egg. Row 10 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R10C5.Row & column count
- R10C6 is 🥚 egg. Row 10 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R10C6.Row & column count
- R9C6 is 🐦 bird. R8C6 and R10C6 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R9C6 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R1C6 is 🥚 egg. Column 6 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R1C6.Row & column count
- R1C5 is 🐦 bird. R1C6 and R1C7 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R1C5 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R1C4 is 🥚 egg. R1C5 holds a bird and the × means the two must differ, so R1C4 is an egg.Different link
- R1C8 is 🐦 bird. R1C6 and R1C7 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R1C8 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R2C1 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R2C1. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Column 1 ends up with 6 birds, over the limit of 5. So R2C1 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R3C2 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R3C2. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 3 ends up with three birds in a row at R3C2, R3C3, R3C4. So R3C2 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R3C3 is 🥚 egg. R3C2 holds an egg and the = joins it to R3C3, so that cell matches: another egg.Equals link
- R3C1 is 🐦 bird. R3C2 and R3C3 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R3C1 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R4C3 is 🐦 bird. R3C3 and R5C3 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R4C3 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R4C1 is 🥚 egg. Column 1 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R4C1.Row & column count
- R5C1 is 🥚 egg. Column 1 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R5C1.Row & column count
- R5C2 is 🐦 bird. R5C1 and R5C3 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R5C2 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R7C1 is 🥚 egg. Column 1 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R7C1.Row & column count
- R6C3 is 🐦 bird. Column 3 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R6C3.Row & column count
- R6C2 is 🥚 egg. R6C1 and R6C3 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R6C2 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R6C4 is 🥚 egg. Row 6 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R6C4.Row & column count
- R6C10 is 🥚 egg. Row 6 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R6C10.Row & column count
- R7C10 is 🥚 egg. R6C10 holds an egg and the = joins it to R7C10, so that cell matches: another egg.Equals link
- R5C10 is 🐦 bird. R6C10 and R7C10 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R5C10 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R3C10 is 🥚 egg. R4C10 and R5C10 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R3C10 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C10 is 🐦 bird. R6C10 and R7C10 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R8C10 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R3C9 is 🐦 bird. R3C8 and R3C10 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R3C9 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R9C10 is 🥚 egg. R8C10 and R10C10 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R9C10 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C7 is 🥚 egg. Row 5 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R5C7.Row & column count
- R7C3 is 🐦 bird. Column 3 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R7C3.Row & column count
- R7C4 is 🐦 bird. Column 4 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R7C4.Row & column count
- R7C2 is 🥚 egg. R7C3 and R7C4 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R7C2 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R7C8 is 🐦 bird. Row 7 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R7C8.Row & column count
- R7C9 is 🐦 bird. Row 7 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R7C9.Row & column count
- R8C9 is 🥚 egg. R6C9 and R7C9 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R8C9 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R2C2 is 🐦 bird. Column 2 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R2C2.Row & column count
- R2C10 is 🥚 egg. Row 2 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R2C10.Row & column count
- R1C10 is 🐦 bird. R2C10 and R3C10 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R1C10 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R1C9 is 🥚 egg. R1C8 and R1C10 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R1C9 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C2 is 🐦 bird. Column 2 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R4C2.Row & column count
- R4C5 is 🥚 egg. Row 4 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R4C5.Row & column count
- R9C5 is 🐦 bird. Column 5 already has all 5 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R9C5.Row & column count
- R9C7 is 🥚 egg. R9C5 and R9C6 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R9C7 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C7 is 🐦 bird. R7C7 and R9C7 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R8C7 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R8C8 is 🥚 egg. Row 8 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R8C8.Row & column count
- R9C8 is 🐦 bird. R8C8 and R10C8 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R9C8 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R9C9 is 🥚 egg. Row 9 already has all 5 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R9C9.Row & column count
Tip: most of the progress on this particular grid came down to spotting two of the same kind already side by side, which settles the squares at both ends. That is usually the first thing worth trying when a board stops moving.
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