Top 10 Hardest Tricky Story Levels Ranked

Tricky Story has 282 levels across four versions, and most are fair once you spot the trick. But a handful are genuinely brutal — the ones players search "tricky story answers" for again and again. Here are the ten hardest Tricky Story levels, ranked, with a quick note on what makes each one nasty and where to find the full solution.

10. Story 1 Level 10 — Nine Traps

The first big multi-step level. You must set nine traps (hammer, ink, wrench, gasoline, bone, stone, pipes, wire, phone) in the right order. Miss one and the escape fails. It's hard because it's the first time the game demands a long sequence.

9. Normal Level 32

A pure-puzzle level with a counterintuitive drag order. The objects look unrelated but must be combined in a specific sequence most players never guess on the first try.

8. Story 2 Level 30 — Talent Show

Riley's performance level. You must pick the correct instrument, costume, and stage sequence while Claire sabotages you. The time limit makes it frantic.

7. Story 3 Level 38 — Etiquette Class

Lady Beatrice's etiquette test: correct seven errors (attire, posture, dining, expressions) under a 129-second timer. The catch is that "correct" here means literally following her critique, not common sense.

6. Story 3 Level 67 — Stop the Ceremony

The finale. You must sabotage a coming-of-age ceremony by interacting with a dozen objects in a precise order, and several only unlock after others are triggered. The highest difficulty rating in the game.

5. Story 1 Level 22

A level where the solution is hidden in the dialogue text. Players who skip the goal text never find it; those who read it carefully solve it in seconds.

4. Story 2 Level 45

A timed evidence-collection level with eleven steps. The difficulty isn't any single step — it's doing all eleven before the timer runs out.

3. Normal Level 65

Late-game Normal with a multi-touch sequence the game never teaches elsewhere. Without a walkthrough, most players quit here.

2. Story 3 Level 50

A sabotage level where the correct order is the reverse of what the scene suggests. Subverting your own instinct is the whole puzzle.

1. Story 3 Level 60

The hardest level in Tricky Story. A long, timed, multi-character scene where every prop interacts with every other prop, and only one sequence works. Even with the level image, players often need the video walkthrough to nail the timing.

How to Beat the Hardest Levels

The pattern across all ten is the same: read the goal, watch character reactions, and treat the level image as a map of every interactive object. When a hard level stumps you, open its Tricky Story walkthrough page, read just the Quick Answer for a nudge, and only fall back to the full step-by-step if you're truly stuck. Each of these levels has a dedicated page with a video walkthrough, so you're never more than one click from the solution.

See the complete Tricky Story level list to jump straight to any of these — or any of the other 272 levels.