Level 109 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 109 Walkthrough: A Two-Tile Rose Region Runs the Board
Meowdoku Level 109 is a medium 9x9 board where a two-tile rose region locks column 2, butter locks column 1, and fourteen crosses settle the entire puzzle.
Meowdoku Level 109 is a medium 9x9 board with nine colors, and almost all of its personality lives in the left two columns. A rose region of just two tiles and a butter region of just four sit side by side there, and between them they generate every cross in the level. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in your browser, so you can open this board and work through its one big deduction at your own pace.
The other notable feature is the periwinkle region, which is a single tile completely surrounded by bubblegum in the middle of the lower board. That tile gives you a free first cat, and from there the level becomes a fourteen-cross puzzle followed by seven effortless placements. This guide covers the layout, the forced opening, the column work that decides the board, and the ideas you can carry into other logic puzzle games.
Meowdoku Level 109 at a glance
- Board: 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions and 9 cats to place
- Difficulty: Medium
- Hardest technique needed: Tile touching a whole color
- Logical steps: 23 (9 cats and 14 crosses)
- Smallest color: periwinkle with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 109 layout
The nine colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Periwinkle is the smallest region on the board, a single tile at row 7, column 7. Rose has only two tiles, stacked at row 1, column 2 and row 2, column 2, and apricot has three at row 1, columns 5 and 6 plus row 2, column 5. Butter has four tiles forming an L down the left edge at row 1, column 1, row 2, column 1, row 3, column 1, and row 3, column 2.
The large regions fill in around them. Bubblegum is the biggest with nineteen tiles across the bottom right, mint has eighteen through the middle left, soda has twelve on the right, lilac has twelve in the bottom left, and matcha has ten in the top right corner. Four small regions clustered in the top left of a cat puzzle game like this is a strong signal about where to look first.
- Grid size: 9x9 with nine colors, rated medium.
- Smallest region: periwinkle, one tile at row 7, column 7.
- Largest region: bubblegum, nineteen tiles across the bottom right.
- Total solve: 23 steps including 14 crosses.
The opening: the periwinkle island
Your first cat in Meowdoku Level 109 goes on row 7, column 7. The periwinkle region is a single tile ringed entirely by bubblegum, so the periwinkle cat has no other home and the move is completely safe.
It is a pleasant quirk of this board that its free move sits in the middle of the lower half rather than in a corner. The cat clears row 7 and column 7 and the eight tiles around it, which bites into bubblegum and soda straight away. In many cat games an island region like this is the designer telling you where to begin, and it is always worth accepting the invitation.
The key moment: fourteen crosses in the left columns
This is the hardest stretch of Meowdoku Level 109, and everything happens in columns 1 and 2. Start with rose. Both of its tiles sit in column 2, so the cat in column 2 has to be the rose cat. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it lets you cross out the butter tile at row 3, column 2, the mint tiles at row 4, column 2 and row 5, column 2, and the lilac tiles at row 6, column 2, row 8, column 2, and row 9, column 2.
Losing row 3, column 2 leaves butter with only its three tiles in column 1, so column 1 now belongs to butter. Cross out the mint tiles at row 4, column 1, row 5, column 1, and row 6, column 1, and the lilac tiles at row 8, column 1 and row 9, column 1. Eleven crosses in, the left edge of the board has been almost entirely cleared of its big regions.
The finish uses technique T4, a tile that touches every open tile of a color. Rose still has row 1, column 2 and row 2, column 2, and three tiles sit next to both of them: row 1, column 1, row 1, column 3, and row 2, column 1. Wherever the rose cat lands it would touch each of those, so all three are crossed out. Two of them were butter tiles, which means butter is now reduced to a single open tile at row 3, column 1, and that is your second cat. Rose follows immediately at row 1, column 2.
How the rest of Meowdoku Level 109 falls
With the left columns settled, the remaining cats need no new crosses at all. Apricot drops to row 2, column 5 once rows 1 and 3 and the tiles around the rose cat are gone. Matcha then has only row 4, column 8, and soda only row 6, column 9.
Mint, an eighteen-tile region, is reduced to row 5, column 3 by everything that came before it, which is a satisfying payoff for all that early work in columns 1 and 2. Lilac takes row 8, column 4 and bubblegum closes the board at row 9, column 6. Every one of those is technique T1, the last open tile in a color.
Looking back, the shape of this board is clear: one free cat, one long deduction, and then a cascade. Recognising that shape early is what turns a medium board in these brain games from a slog into a pleasure.
Why tiny regions are your best friends
It is tempting to treat a two-tile region like rose as a minor detail, but in Meowdoku it is the most powerful thing on the board. Two tiles in the same column lock that entire column. Two tiles anywhere at all almost always have a neighbour that touches both, which gives you a T4 cross for free.
Keep this in mind on every board in these free online games.
- Count the tiles in each region before you start, and mark the ones with two, three, or four tiles in your head.
- A vertical two-tile region locks a column; a horizontal one locks a row. Either way, sweep the whole line.
- After the sweep, look for tiles adjacent to both remaining options, because those can be crossed out as well.
- Expect the giant regions to solve themselves at the very end, as mint and bubblegum do here.
- If you cannot see the next step, a hint reveals the next forced cat without costing you a fish.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 109 solution
Every cat below is forced by logic, in the order a careful solver finds them. No guessing is needed. If you only want a nudge, read one step, close this page, and return to the game.
Cat 1: row 7, column 7 (periwinkle)
The periwinkle region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 7, column 7. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 2: row 3, column 1 (butter)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the butter tile at row 3, column 2.
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the mint tile at row 4, column 2.
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the mint tile at row 5, column 2.
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the lilac tile at row 6, column 2.
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 2.
- Every open rose tile sits in column 2, so that column's cat must be rose. Cross out the lilac tile at row 9, column 2.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the mint tile at row 4, column 1.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the mint tile at row 5, column 1.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the mint tile at row 6, column 1.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 1.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the lilac tile at row 9, column 1.
- The tile at row 1, column 1 touches every open tile left in the rose region. Wherever the rose cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
- The tile at row 1, column 3 touches every open tile left in the rose region. Wherever the rose cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
- The tile at row 2, column 1 touches every open tile left in the rose region. Wherever the rose cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the first cat crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 1, column 2 (rose)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 cats placed so far crossed out, the rose region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 1, column 2. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 4: row 2, column 5 (apricot)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the apricot region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 2, column 5. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 4, column 8 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the matcha region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 4, column 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 6, column 9 (soda)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 cats placed so far crossed out, the soda region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 6, column 9. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 5, column 3 (mint)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 6 cats placed so far crossed out, the mint region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 5, column 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 8: row 8, column 4 (lilac)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 7 cats placed so far crossed out, the lilac region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 8, column 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 9: row 9, column 6 (bubblegum)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 8 cats placed so far crossed out, the bubblegum region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 9, column 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 109 solved board
Here is the finished board. Every row, every column, and every color holds exactly one cat, and no two cats touch, not even at the corners.
Meowdoku Level 109 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 109?
In solve order, the cats go on row 7, column 7 (periwinkle); row 3, column 1 (butter); row 1, column 2 (rose); row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 4, column 8 (matcha); row 6, column 9 (soda); row 5, column 3 (mint); row 8, column 4 (lilac); and row 9, column 6 (bubblegum).
Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 109?
Place the first cat on row 7, column 7. Periwinkle is a single tile there, surrounded on all sides by bubblegum, so the periwinkle cat is forced and the opening move costs you nothing.
How do I find the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 109?
Lock rose to column 2 and cross out row 3, column 2, row 4, column 2, row 5, column 2, row 6, column 2, row 8, column 2, and row 9, column 2. Lock butter to column 1 and cross out row 4, column 1, row 5, column 1, row 6, column 1, row 8, column 1, and row 9, column 1. Then cross out row 1, column 1, row 1, column 3, and row 2, column 1 because each touches every open rose tile. Butter is left with one open tile at row 3, column 1.
How difficult is Meowdoku Level 109?
It is rated medium. The solve takes 23 steps with 14 crosses, and the hardest technique is T4, a tile that touches every open tile of a color, used three times against the two-tile rose region. Players who are comfortable with column locks in these cat games should manage it without losing a fish.
Where can I play Meowdoku Level 109?
Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that plays directly in your browser, with no download required. Level 109 is part of the same run of animal games and logic puzzle games you can work through in order.
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