Meowdoku Level 41 Walkthrough: A Seven-Cat Warm-Up

The Meowdoku Level 41 board layout

Seven colors share this small grid: rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, and periwinkle. Rose is the smallest region by a mile, a single tile at row 1, column 2. Apricot is next with just three tiles in the top right of the opening rows, and butter has six tiles filling the top left corner.

The bigger regions divide the rest of the grid. Matcha is the largest at 13 tiles, spreading across the top right and reaching down to row 4. Mint takes 10 tiles through the middle left, while soda and periwinkle each hold 8 tiles across the bottom half. In this cat puzzle game the largest region is rarely your problem, and matcha proves it here by being one of the last colors you place.

With only seven rows and seven columns, every cat you settle removes a big fraction of the board. That is what makes Level 41 feel so brisk compared with the 9x9 and 10x10 boards around it in the campaign.

The opening move and why it cannot be anything else

Start Meowdoku Level 41 on row 1, column 2. Rose occupies only that tile, so the rose cat is forced there before you look at anything else. This is technique T1, the last open tile in a color, and it is the friendliest opening in all of these animal games because it needs no reasoning at all.

The rose cat clears row 1, column 2, and the tiles touching it, which leaves apricot with exactly one open tile at row 2, column 4. Place the apricot cat there, and butter immediately narrows to row 3, column 1 for the third cat. Three cats in three taps, all by the same rule.

That opening run is not luck. Meowdoku boards in the easy band are designed so that the small regions fall like dominoes, giving you a foothold before anything subtle appears. Trust the dominoes and only slow down when they stop.

The key moment: matcha and soda each claim a row

After three cats, the board needs one real idea. Every open matcha tile now sits in row 4, which means row 4 belongs to matcha no matter where in that row the matcha cat lands. This is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it lets you cross out the mint tile at row 4, column 3. With that gone, mint has a single open tile at row 5, column 3, and the fourth cat is placed.

The same idea does double duty for the fifth cat, and this is the hardest deduction in Meowdoku Level 41. Matcha still owns row 4, so the soda tile at row 4, column 7 is crossed out too. That squeezes soda until every open soda tile sits in row 6, which hands row 6 to soda and removes the periwinkle tile at row 6, column 5.

Then look at the two tiles just below the remaining soda options. The tiles at row 7, column 6 and row 7, column 7 each touch every open soda tile, so a soda cat anywhere in row 6 would be touching them. Both are crossed out by technique T4, a tile touching every open tile of a color. Periwinkle is now down to one option at row 7, column 5, and once that cat lands, matcha settles at row 4, column 6 and soda finishes at row 6, column 7.

Tips from Level 41 that help on bigger grids

The lesson of Level 41 is that locking a color to a line is often more useful than hunting for the next cat directly. Two of the seven cats on this board only appeared because matcha and soda were confined to single rows, and that pattern repeats constantly in the harder logic puzzle games ahead.

Carry these small habits forward when the grids grow to nine and ten columns.

• After each cat, scan the remaining colors and ask whether any of them now fit inside one row or one column.
• When a color owns a line, cross out every other color sitting in that line straight away.
• Check the tiles that neighbor all of a color’s remaining options, since they can never hold a cat.
• On small boards, a single cat can finish two or three colors at once, so re-read the whole grid after every placement.
• Cross first, place second; the crosses are what make the next cat obvious in these brain games.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 41?

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

What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 41?

Place the first cat on row 1, column 2. The rose region is a single tile, so that cat is forced and it is always the right way to open this board.

How do I find the periwinkle cat in Meowdoku Level 41?

Matcha is confined to row 4, so cross out the soda tile at row 4, column 7. Soda is then confined to row 6, which crosses out the periwinkle tile at row 6, column 5. Finally cross out row 7, column 6 and row 7, column 7, because each touches every open soda tile. That leaves periwinkle with one open tile at row 7, column 5.

Is Meowdoku Level 41 a good board for beginners?

Yes. It is rated easy, it is only 7x7, and three of the seven cats arrive from single-tile deductions. It is one of the best places to learn the row-locking trick that harder cat games in the campaign lean on.

Do I need to download anything to play Meowdoku Level 41?

No. Meowdoku is one of those free online games that runs entirely in your web browser, so you can play Level 41 on a phone or a computer with nothing to install.