Level 13 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 13 Help: Solving the Butter and Mint Columns on an 8x8 Grid
Meowdoku Level 13 gives you three quick cats, then asks you to untangle butter and mint on the right side of the board before the rest of the grid falls into place.
Meowdoku Level 13 is an 8x8 board with eight colors, so eight cats need a home. Each row, column, and color must hold exactly one cat, and no cat may sit beside another, including on a diagonal. Like every level of Meowdoku, it is free and plays in your browser.
The game rates this one as easy, and the start really is smooth, with three cats coming one after another. The fourth cat is where you pause: butter and mint crowd into neighboring columns on the right edge, and working out how they affect each other is the heart of the puzzle. This walkthrough is written for anyone who enjoys cat games, brain games, or relaxed logic puzzle games.
Meowdoku Level 13 at a glance
- Board: 8×8 grid with 8 colored regions and 8 cats to place
- Difficulty: Easy
- Hardest technique needed: Tile touching a whole color
- Logical steps: 15 (8 cats and 7 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The colors of Meowdoku Level 13
You will find rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac on this grid. Rose is a single tile in the top left corner at row 1, column 1. Apricot has three tiles, periwinkle has five, butter and mint have seven each, lilac has eleven, matcha has twelve, and soda is the largest at eighteen tiles through the middle and lower part of the board.
Periwinkle forms an L shape in the bottom left, lilac stretches across the bottom row, and butter fills the top right corner and runs down column 8. Mint spreads across rows 3 to 5 and reaches column 7, right beside it. Spotting how butter and mint sit side by side is the best preparation for the tricky step in this cat puzzle game level.
The opening run of three cats
Your first cat is the rose tile at row 1, column 1, since it is the only rose tile on the board. Crossing its row, column, and neighbors leaves apricot with one open tile at row 2, column 5, which gives you the second cat.
The third cat comes just as easily. After the first two cats, the periwinkle region has only one open tile, row 7, column 2. Three cats in a row from the simplest idea in Meowdoku is a nice warm-up, and it is a pattern you will see in many free online games of this style.
The key moment: butter, mint, and the tiles between them
After three cats, every open butter tile is in column 8, so column 8 belongs to butter. Cross the soda tiles at row 5 and row 6 of column 8, and the lilac tile at row 8, column 8. At the same time, every open mint tile is in column 7, so column 7 belongs to mint, and the soda tile at row 6, column 7 and the lilac tile at row 8, column 7 can go.
Now look closely at the two mint tiles at row 3, column 7 and row 4, column 7. Each of them touches every open butter tile that is left. If a mint cat sat on either one, the butter cat would have nowhere to go without touching it. So both tiles are crossed, which leaves mint with a single open tile at row 5, column 7.
This is the touching-tile idea, and it is the hardest deduction on the board, the kind of neat trick that makes logic puzzle games so satisfying. Once the mint cat is placed, butter settles on row 3, column 8, and soda, matcha, and lilac each drop to one open tile in turn, finishing on row 8, column 6.
Tips from Level 13 for future Meowdoku puzzles
Level 13 is easy overall, but it shows how two neighboring regions can block each other. Keep these ideas in mind as you move on to harder brain games and bigger Meowdoku boards.
A useful routine is to pick any small color that is close to finishing and look at the tiles hugging it. If a tile borders all of its remaining spots, it is safe to cross, and that single tap can decide a whole neighboring region.
- When two colors share neighboring columns, check whether each one is locked to its own column.
- Ask whether a tile would touch every remaining tile of another color; if so, cross it.
- A long region like butter down column 8 can squeeze a neighbor into a single spot.
- Big regions such as soda usually wait until the end, so focus on the small ones first.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 13 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 1, column 1 (rose)
The rose region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 1, column 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 2: row 2, column 5 (apricot)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the first cat 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 3: row 7, column 2 (periwinkle)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 cats placed so far crossed out, the periwinkle region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 7, column 2. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 4: row 5, column 7 (mint)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open butter tile sits in column 8, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the soda tile at row 5, column 8.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 8, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the soda tile at row 6, column 8.
- Every open butter tile sits in column 8, so that column's cat must be butter. Cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 8.
- Every open mint tile sits in column 7, so that column's cat must be mint. Cross out the soda tile at row 6, column 7.
- Every open mint tile sits in column 7, so that column's cat must be mint. Cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 7.
- The tile at row 3, column 7 touches every open tile left in the butter region. Wherever the butter cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
- The tile at row 4, column 7 touches every open tile left in the butter region. Wherever the butter cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the mint region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 5, column 7. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 3, column 8 (butter)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 6, column 4 (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 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 4, column 3 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 6 cats placed so far crossed out, the matcha region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 4, column 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 8: row 8, column 6 (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 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 13 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 13 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 13?
The cats in solve order are row 1, column 1 (rose); row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 7, column 2 (periwinkle); row 5, column 7 (mint); row 3, column 8 (butter); row 6, column 4 (soda); row 4, column 3 (matcha); and row 8, column 6 (lilac).
Where is the first cat in Meowdoku Level 13?
The first cat goes on row 1, column 1. Rose is a single tile in that corner, so its cat is forced right away.
Why can the mint cat not go on row 3 or row 4 of column 7?
Both of those tiles touch every open butter tile that is left. A cat there would leave butter with no legal spot, so they are crossed out and the mint cat goes on row 5, column 7.
Is Meowdoku Level 13 a good level for beginners?
Yes. It is rated easy, and most cats come from finding a color with one open tile left. One step uses locked columns and touching tiles, which makes it a gentle introduction to harder ideas in this cat puzzle game.
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