Meowdoku Level 45 Walkthrough: The Lone Matcha Tile

The Meowdoku Level 45 board layout

This level is built from rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac. Matcha is the smallest of the eight with a single tile at row 4, column 8, and rose and apricot are tied for second smallest with three tiles each along the top. Periwinkle has five tiles running straight down column 1.

Mint is the largest region at 17 tiles, taking the entire right side below the top rows. Soda is close behind with 16 tiles winding through the left and middle, and lilac has 12 tiles across the bottom. Butter fills seven tiles near the top, wrapping around the end of the rose strip.

The interesting feature of Level 45 is how straight the edges are. Periwinkle is a clean column, rose is a clean strip of row 1, and mint owns two full columns on the right. In this cat puzzle game those straight shapes are exactly what create the row-locking and column-locking deductions you need.

The opening move: a single matcha tile

Place the first cat of Meowdoku Level 45 on row 4, column 8. The matcha region is that one tile and nothing else, so its cat is forced there by technique T1, the last open tile in a color. It feels strange to start in the middle of the right edge instead of near a corner, but the logic could not be simpler.

That cat clears row 4, column 8, and all the tiles touching it, and it immediately sets up the second deduction. Every open rose tile now sits in row 1, which means row 1 has to hold the rose cat. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it lets you cross out the soda tile at row 1, column 1, the butter tiles at row 1, column 5 and row 1, column 6, and the apricot tile at row 1, column 7.

Losing that last tile leaves apricot with one open option at row 2, column 7, so the second cat goes there. Butter then falls to row 3, column 4 and mint to row 5, column 6, both by the same last-open-tile rule. Four cats down and the board is already half solved.

The key moment: crowding out soda and periwinkle

The fifth cat is the hardest deduction in Meowdoku Level 45, and it comes from combining a column lock with three neighbor crosses. Start with periwinkle: all of its open tiles sit in column 1, so column 1 belongs to periwinkle and the lilac tile at row 8, column 1 is crossed out.

Now look for tiles that touch every remaining option of a color, which is technique T4. The tile at row 7, column 3 touches every open soda tile, so a soda cat anywhere would be sitting next to it and it cannot hold a cat itself. Similarly, the tiles at row 6, column 2 and row 7, column 2 each touch every open periwinkle tile, so both of those are crossed out as well.

Those four crosses are enough. Soda is squeezed down to one open tile at row 6, column 3, and the fifth cat lands there. The rest of the board follows in a straight line: rose finally takes row 1, column 2, periwinkle settles at row 7, column 1, and lilac finishes at row 8, column 5. Every one of those closing cats is just a color with a single tile left.

Tips you can take from Level 45

The main lesson here is not to assume where the opening cat lives. Meowdoku often hides its one-tile region near a corner, but Level 45 puts matcha on an edge in the middle of the board. Counting region sizes before your first tap costs a few seconds and saves you from searching in the wrong place.

The second lesson is about straight regions. Whenever a color forms a neat line, it is a candidate for a row or column lock, and those locks are the engine of most easy and medium boards in these brain games.

• Count every region first; the smallest one is always your opening move, wherever it sits.
• Straight strips of color, like rose in row 1 or periwinkle in column 1, are the first places to look for a line lock.
• After a line lock, cross out every other color in that line before doing anything else.
• Tiles wedged between two options of the same color usually touch both and can be crossed out immediately.
• Play the chain of last open tiles all the way to the end; on this board it finishes four cats in a row.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 45?

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

What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 45?

Place the first cat on row 4, column 8. Matcha is a single-tile region on this board, so unlike most levels the opening cat lands on the right edge rather than near a corner.

How do I find the soda cat in Meowdoku Level 45?

Periwinkle is confined to column 1, so cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 1. Then cross out row 7, column 3 because it touches every open soda tile, and row 6, column 2 and row 7, column 2 because each touches every open periwinkle tile. Soda is left with one open tile at row 6, column 3.

How does the apricot cat become forced in Meowdoku Level 45?

Once the matcha cat is placed, every open rose tile sits in row 1, so that row must hold the rose cat. Crossing out the soda tile at row 1, column 1, the butter tiles at row 1, column 5 and row 1, column 6, and the apricot tile at row 1, column 7 leaves apricot with only row 2, column 7.

Is Meowdoku a good cat puzzle game for a short break?

Yes. Meowdoku is free, plays in your browser, and an easy 8x8 board like Level 45 takes only a few minutes. It is one of the calmer free online games to pick up when you want a small logic challenge and some cats.