I haven't cleared the 2nd level yet so I'm not much to advise but in the first level I realised that its not wise to just take out the pieces that are matching side by side as instead of taking them out side by side you might want to just use one of the 2 piece with the same animal on another row or column. By doing this I can clear the first level. And also it seems that when you get to a point that you can't match something else it re-lays the layout again. The writing is in chinese character and not Japanese Kanji so I can't quite read what it says but it has the character that means not matching so I think it says it redid the layout because there were no other matching piece available.
