Meowdoku Level 103 Walkthrough: When Mint and Soda Reserve Two Rows

How the Meowdoku Level 103 board is arranged

The ten colors in this cat puzzle game are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, bubblegum, and latte. Rose is the smallest region on the board with one tile at row 1, column 1, in the very top left corner. Apricot and matcha each have just two tiles: apricot sits at row 1, column 7 and row 2, column 7, while matcha sits at row 3, column 10 and row 4, column 10. Latte has four tiles in the bottom left area, at row 9, column 3 and row 10, columns 3, 4, and 5.

The bigger shapes give the board its character. Bubblegum is enormous with twenty-six tiles across the lower half, mint and periwinkle each have nineteen, butter has eleven in the top left block, soda has nine in the centre, and lilac has seven along the right edge. Periwinkle runs the full height of the left side in columns 1 through 3, and mint occupies the top right corner, which is exactly the geometry that the middle deduction exploits.

• Grid size: 10x10 with ten colors at medium difficulty.
• Smallest region: rose, one tile at row 1, column 1.
• Largest region: bubblegum, twenty-six tiles filling the lower half.
• Hardest technique used: T5, matched colors and lines, four times.

The opening: four corner regions in a row

Open Meowdoku Level 103 with the rose cat at row 1, column 1. With only one rose tile on the whole grid, that cat has no alternative, and it clears row 1, column 1, and the corner neighbours in one stroke.

Because apricot only has two tiles and one of them is in row 1, apricot drops straight to row 2, column 7 for your second cat. Butter is next: it loses its row 1 and row 2 tiles and is reduced to row 3, column 4. Matcha then has only row 4, column 10 left. Four cats in, and you have not needed to cross out a thing, which is a lovely way for one of these cat games to warm you up before the real work.

The key moment: mint and soda claim rows 5 and 6

With four cats down, rows 1 through 4 are all used, and that is the hinge of the whole level. Every open mint tile is now in row 5 or row 6, and every open soda tile is in row 5 or row 6 as well. Two colors, two rows. Each color needs its own row, so between them mint and soda take both rows completely, and nothing else is allowed in either one. That is technique T5, matched colors and lines, and it is the hardest single idea in Meowdoku Level 103.

The payoff lands on periwinkle. Because rows 5 and 6 are reserved, cross out the periwinkle tiles at row 5, column 2, row 5, column 3, row 6, column 2, and row 6, column 3. Periwinkle has been pushed out of the middle of its own tall column block.

A few technique T4 crosses tidy up the rest. The tile at row 6, column 8 touches every open mint tile, so it goes. The tile at row 6, column 5 touches every open soda tile, and the tile at row 8, column 8 touches every open lilac tile, so those go too, and the tile at row 7, column 3 touches every open periwinkle tile. That final cross leaves periwinkle with a single open tile at row 7, column 2, which is your fifth cat. After that, lilac, mint, soda, bubblegum, and latte each become the last open tile in their own color and the 10x10 board is finished.

Learning to spot matched colors and lines

Technique T5 sounds abstract until you have used it once, and then you see it everywhere. The rule is simple: if two colors can only place their cats inside the same two rows, those two rows are used up, so every other color must leave them. The same works for three colors inside three rows, or for columns instead of rows.

Level 103 is an ideal place to practise it because the rest of the board is so forgiving. Here is how to hunt for the pattern in future Meowdoku boards and other brain games.

• After a run of easy cats, list which rows each remaining color can still use.
• Look for two colors whose lists are identical and only two rows long; that is a T5 pattern.
• Clear every foreign tile out of those lines before you look for anything else.
• Remember that a large region like periwinkle can still be forced, as long as something removes its middle.
• If you lose track on a 10x10 board, a hint will reveal the next forced cat so you can keep your reasoning honest.

Why a 10x10 Meowdoku board is worth playing

Ten colors and one hundred tiles sound like a lot, but Meowdoku scales gracefully. The rules never change: one cat in every color region, one in every row, one in every column, and no two cats touching, not even at a corner. A bigger grid just means more regions doing the work for you.

That is why Level 103 is such a satisfying entry in these animal games. It is the widest board in this stretch of the campaign, it introduces the most advanced technique in the game, and it still only needs eight crosses from start to finish. All of it is free and plays in the browser.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 103?

In solve order, the cats go on row 1, column 1 (rose); row 2, column 7 (apricot); row 3, column 4 (butter); row 4, column 10 (matcha); row 7, column 2 (periwinkle); row 8, column 9 (lilac); row 5, column 8 (mint); row 6, column 6 (soda); row 9, column 5 (bubblegum); and row 10, column 3 (latte).

Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 103?

Place the first cat on row 1, column 1. Rose is a one-tile region in the top left corner of this cat puzzle game, so the rose cat is forced there and it sets off the whole opening run.

How do I find the periwinkle cat in Meowdoku Level 103?

After the first four cats, mint and soda can only use rows 5 and 6, so those two rows are reserved and you cross out the periwinkle tiles at row 5, column 2, row 5, column 3, row 6, column 2, and row 6, column 3. Then cross out row 7, column 3 because it touches every open periwinkle tile. Periwinkle is left with one open tile at row 7, column 2.

What does technique T5 mean in Meowdoku?

T5 is matched colors and lines. When two colors can only place their cats within the same two rows or the same two columns, those lines are fully claimed by those colors, so every other color is crossed out of them. Meowdoku Level 103 uses it four times on rows 5 and 6.

Is Meowdoku Level 103 free to play?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game in your browser, and Level 103 needs no download, so you can jump into these free online games whenever you have a few quiet minutes.