Bird Find Level 404 Answers & Walkthrough Guide
Welcome to the Bird Find Level 404 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 404 is an 8×8 grid with 11 squares filled in from the start, and it needs 4 birds and 4 eggs in every row and every column. There are 6 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 53 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 404 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 53 steps as text
- R3C2 is 🥚 egg. R1C2 and R2C2 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R3C2 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R3C5 is 🥚 egg. R1C5 and R2C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R3C5 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R7C2 is 🥚 egg. R7C1 and R7C3 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R7C2 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R7C4 is 🥚 egg. R7C3 and R7C5 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R7C4 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.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
- R4C5 is 🐦 bird. R4C4 holds an egg and the × means the two must differ, so R4C5 is a bird.Different link
- R4C6 is 🥚 egg. R4C5 and R4C7 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R4C6 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C5 is 🥚 egg. Column 5 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R5C5.Row & column count
- R6C5 is 🥚 egg. Column 5 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R6C5.Row & column count
- R8C5 is 🥚 egg. Column 5 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R8C5.Row & column count
- R2C1 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R2C1. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 2 ends up with 5 birds, over the limit of 4. So R2C1 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R2C6 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R2C6. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 5 ends up with three eggs in a row at R5C5, R5C6, R5C7. So R2C6 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R3C6 is 🐦 bird. R2C6 and R4C6 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R3C6 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R2C7 is 🐦 bird. Try an egg at R2C7. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 3 ends up with three birds in a row at R3C6, R3C7, R3C8. So R2C7 has to be a bird.Look ahead
- R3C7 is 🥚 egg. R2C7 holds a bird and the × means the two must differ, so R3C7 is an egg.Different link
- R2C3 is 🐦 bird. Try an egg at R2C3. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 3 ends up with 5 eggs, over the limit of 4. So R2C3 has to be a bird.Look ahead
- R2C4 is 🥚 egg. R2C3 holds a bird and the × means the two must differ, so R2C4 is an egg.Different link
- R3C3 is 🐦 bird. R2C3 holds a bird and the = joins it to R3C3, so that cell matches: another bird.Equals link
- R1C3 is 🥚 egg. R2C3 and R3C3 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R1C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C3 is 🥚 egg. R2C3 and R3C3 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R4C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R4C2 is 🐦 bird. R4C3 and R4C4 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R4C2 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R2C8 is 🥚 egg. Row 2 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R2C8.Row & column count
- R3C8 is 🥚 egg. R2C8 holds an egg and the = joins it to R3C8, so that cell matches: another egg.Equals link
- R1C8 is 🐦 bird. R2C8 and R3C8 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R1C8 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R4C8 is 🐦 bird. R2C8 and R3C8 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R4C8 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R3C1 is 🐦 bird. Row 3 already has all 4 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R3C1.Row & column count
- R4C1 is 🥚 egg. Row 4 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R4C1.Row & column count
- R5C2 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R5C2. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Column 2 ends up with 5 birds, over the limit of 4. So R5C2 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R6C2 is 🐦 bird. R5C2 and R7C2 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R6C2 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R8C2 is 🥚 egg. Column 2 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R8C2.Row & column count
- R1C1 is 🥚 egg. Try a bird at R1C1. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Column 1 ends up with 5 birds, over the limit of 4. So R1C1 has to be an egg.Look ahead
- R5C1 is 🐦 bird. Try an egg at R5C1. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Column 1 ends up with 5 eggs, over the limit of 4. So R5C1 has to be a bird.Look ahead
- R6C1 is 🥚 egg. R5C1 and R7C1 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R6C1 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C1 is 🐦 bird. Column 1 already has all 4 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R8C1.Row & column count
- R5C6 is 🐦 bird. Try an egg at R5C6. Every move that is then forced leads to a dead end — Row 5 ends up with three eggs in a row at R5C5, R5C6, R5C7. So R5C6 has to be a bird.Look ahead
- R5C7 is 🐦 bird. R5C6 holds a bird and the = joins it to R5C7, so that cell matches: another bird.Equals link
- R5C8 is 🥚 egg. R5C6 and R5C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R5C8 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R6C7 is 🥚 egg. R4C7 and R5C7 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R6C7 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R6C6 is 🐦 bird. R6C5 and R6C7 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R6C6 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R7C6 is 🥚 egg. R5C6 and R6C6 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R7C6 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R5C3 is 🥚 egg. Row 5 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R5C3.Row & column count
- R6C3 is 🐦 bird. R4C3 and R5C3 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R6C3 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R6C4 is 🥚 egg. R6C2 and R6C3 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R6C4 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C3 is 🥚 egg. R6C3 and R7C3 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R8C3 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R8C4 is 🐦 bird. R8C2 and R8C3 are already two eggs in a row. A third egg at R8C4 would make a trio, so it is a bird.No trios
- R6C8 is 🐦 bird. Row 6 already has all 4 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R6C8.Row & column count
- R7C8 is 🥚 egg. R6C8 and R8C8 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R7C8 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
- R7C7 is 🐦 bird. R7C6 and R7C8 are both eggs with one gap between them. Filling R7C7 with an egg would make three in a row, so it is a bird.No trios
- R1C4 is 🐦 bird. Column 4 already has all 4 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R1C4.Row & column count
- R1C6 is 🥚 egg. R1C4 and R1C5 are already two birds in a row. A third bird at R1C6 would make a trio, so it is an egg.No trios
- R1C7 is 🥚 egg. Row 1 already has all 4 of its birds, so every remaining cell there is an egg — starting with R1C7.Row & column count
- R8C6 is 🐦 bird. Column 6 already has all 4 of its eggs, so every remaining cell there is a bird — starting with R8C6.Row & column count
- R8C7 is 🥚 egg. R8C6 and R8C8 are both birds with one gap between them. Filling R8C7 with a bird would make three in a row, so it is an egg.No trios
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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