Meowdoku Level 32 Walkthrough: Apricot and Butter Stack Up

Reading the Meowdoku Level 32 board

The eight colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac. Rose is the smallest region on the board with just one tile at row 1, column 2, which is your free starting point. Butter and soda each have five tiles, mint has six, and apricot has seven spread across the top rows.

The heavy colors sit lower down. Matcha covers eleven tiles along the left side, lilac has fourteen filling the bottom left, and periwinkle is the largest with fifteen tiles in the lower middle and right. Soda tucks into the right edge in a five-tile column shape.

The useful observation for this cat puzzle game is that apricot and butter both run across the top in thin, wide shapes. Wide and thin is exactly the profile of a color that will end up locked to a single row, so those two are worth watching closely from the first move.

The opening move: one rose tile, no choices

Open Meowdoku Level 32 by placing the rose cat on row 1, column 2. The rose region is a single tile, so there is literally nowhere else the rose cat can go. This is technique T1, the last open tile in a color, and it is the standard way these cat games hand you a safe first move.

Settling that cat closes row 1 and column 2 along with the tiles that touch it. On a board this size that is a meaningful bite out of the grid, and it is enough to start squeezing apricot and butter in the rows below.

Take a second here to look at what changed rather than rushing on. In animal games like this one, the habit of rereading the board after every cat is what keeps you from ever needing to guess.

The key moment: apricot takes row 2 and butter takes row 3

This is the heart of Meowdoku Level 32. With the rose cat down, every open apricot tile sits in row 2. Apricot must place a cat somewhere, so the cat in row 2 has to be the apricot one. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it means nothing else may use row 2. Cross out the mint tiles at row 2, column 4 and row 2, column 5 and the butter tile at row 2, column 8.

Now butter is pushed down, and the same pattern repeats one row lower: every open butter tile sits in row 3, so row 3 belongs to butter. That clears the matcha tiles at row 3, column 1 and row 3, column 3, which is exactly what matcha needed. Matcha drops to a single open tile and the second cat goes on row 4, column 1. Butter owning row 3 also removes the mint tile at row 3, column 4, so mint shrinks to one option and the third cat lands on row 5, column 4.

The hardest part comes next and it uses the touching rule, technique T4. Butter owning row 3 also removes the periwinkle tile at row 3, column 5. Then look at row 3, column 6 and row 3, column 7: each of those tiles sits next to every open apricot tile that is left, so a cat on either one would always end up touching the apricot cat. Cross both. Butter is now down to one open tile at row 3, column 8, and apricot follows on row 2, column 6. Soda, periwinkle, and lilac then fall in turn as the last open tile in their colors.

Tactics that carry into later Meowdoku levels

Level 32 is a compact lesson in how constraints stack. One color claiming a row pushes a second color into the next row, which pushes a third, and the chain keeps going until a cat is forced. Recognising that chain is the difference between a medium board taking two minutes and taking ten.

Here is what to carry forward from this board into the rest of these free online games.

• Watch for wide, flat regions near the edges; those are the ones most likely to be locked to a single row.
• After locking a color to a row, look at the very next row, because the crosses you just made often lock a second color there too.
• Cross a tile the moment you see it touches every remaining option of some color.
• Work from the crowded top of the board toward the open bottom, since the biggest regions resolve last anyway.
• A hint will reveal the next forced cat if the chain breaks, which costs you nothing but a moment.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 32?

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

Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 32?

The first cat goes on row 1, column 2. Rose is a one-tile region on this board, so that cat is forced before you have to think about anything else in the puzzle.

How do I find the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 32?

Butter is locked to row 3, and the last step is the touching rule. Cross the periwinkle tile at row 3, column 5 because butter owns the row, then cross row 3, column 6 and row 3, column 7 because each touches every open apricot tile. Butter is left with one open tile at row 3, column 8.

How hard is Meowdoku Level 32?

It is rated medium. The full solve is 17 steps with 9 crosses, using a color locked to a line seven times and the touching rule twice, which makes it a comfortable step up from the easy animal games earlier in the campaign.

Can I play Meowdoku for free in my browser?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern browser, so you can play these brain games on a phone, tablet, or desktop without installing a thing.