Level 46 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 46 Walkthrough: Rows 3, 4 and 7 Get Claimed
Meowdoku Level 46 is a medium 9x9 board built almost entirely on row locks, with ten of its deductions coming from colors trapped inside a single row.
Meowdoku Level 46 is a medium 9x9 board with nine colors, and it has a very distinctive personality. Almost every deduction on this level comes from the same idea, a color squeezed into a single row, used over and over on three different colors. If you want to practise one technique until it becomes automatic, this is the board to do it on. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that plays in your browser, so Level 46 is only a tap away.
The board also rewards you for counting open tiles in rows and columns rather than only inside regions, because two of its nine cats appear that way. This walkthrough explains the layout, the forced opening, the stacked row locks that produce the lilac cat, and the habits worth carrying into the rest of these logic puzzle games.
Meowdoku Level 46 at a glance
- Board: 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions and 9 cats to place
- Difficulty: Medium
- Hardest technique needed: Color locked to one line
- Logical steps: 19 (9 cats and 10 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 46 board layout
Nine colors carve up this grid: rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the tiniest with one tile at row 1, column 2, and apricot is the second smallest with four tiles just to its right in the top two rows. Butter has six tiles running diagonally through rows 1 to 3.
Bubblegum is the largest region at 19 tiles, filling the bottom left and the whole of row 9. Matcha holds 12 tiles across the top right, mint and soda have 11 tiles each in the middle left, periwinkle has 9 tiles in the middle right, and lilac has 8 tiles down the right edge.
The shape that matters here is how flat these regions are. Butter stretches sideways through row 3, matcha spreads along row 4, and periwinkle spans row 7. Flat regions in this cat puzzle game are prime candidates for being locked into a single row, and Level 46 leans on that fact harder than almost any other board in this stretch.
The opening move and the first row locks
Open Meowdoku Level 46 on row 1, column 2. Rose is a single-tile region, so its cat is forced there with no reasoning at all, which is technique T1, the last open tile in a color. Apricot then drops to one open tile at row 2, column 4 for the second cat.
The third cat needs your first real deduction, and it is a double dose of row locking. Every open butter tile now sits in row 3, so row 3 must hold the butter cat. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it crosses out the soda tile at row 3, column 1 along with the matcha tiles at row 3, column 8 and row 3, column 9.
With those matcha tiles gone, every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so row 4 belongs to matcha as well. That removes the soda tile at row 4, column 1 and the mint tile at row 4, column 3. Mint is now down to one open tile at row 5, column 3, so the third cat lands there, and soda follows at row 6, column 1 by the same last-open-tile rule.
The key moment: periwinkle takes row 7 and lilac gives way
The fifth cat is the hardest step in Meowdoku Level 46, and it stacks row locks on top of each other. Matcha still owns row 4, which means two more tiles in that row have to go: the periwinkle tile at row 4, column 5 and the lilac tile at row 4, column 9. Cross both of them out.
Losing row 4 forces periwinkle downward until every open periwinkle tile sits in row 7. Row 7 therefore belongs to periwinkle, and three more crosses follow: the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 5 and the lilac tiles at row 7, column 8 and row 7, column 9.
Lilac has now lost its options in both row 4 and row 7, which leaves it with exactly one open tile at row 8, column 9. That is the fifth cat. The two cats after it come from counting lines rather than colors: column 5 has a single open tile left, the bubblegum tile at row 9, column 5, and then column 8 has a single open tile left, the matcha tile at row 4, column 8. Both are technique T2, the last open tile in a row or column. Butter then settles at row 3, column 6 and periwinkle closes the board at row 7, column 7.
Tips for spotting row and column locks
Meowdoku Level 46 is the best practice board in this part of the campaign for one specific skill: checking, after every single cross, whether some color has quietly been flattened into one line. Ten of its deductions come from exactly that check, and they cascade, because each lock creates the crosses that cause the next one.
Here is how to make that check fast and reliable.
- After every cross, re-scan the colors nearest to it; a lock usually appears right next door.
- When a color owns a row, sweep the entire row and cross out every tile of every other color.
- Do not stop at the first lock: butter locking row 3 is what lets matcha lock row 4 on this board.
- Count open tiles per column as well as per color, since columns 5 and 8 each hand you a cat here.
- Keep the biggest region, bubblegum in this case, for last; it will end up with only one legal tile.
- If you lose your place, a hint points at the next forced cat and you can pick the chain back up.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 46 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 2 (rose)
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 2: row 2, column 4 (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 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 5, column 3 (mint)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the soda tile at row 3, column 1.
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the matcha tile at row 3, column 8.
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the matcha tile at row 3, column 9.
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the soda tile at row 4, column 1.
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the mint tile at row 4, column 3.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 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 4: row 6, column 1 (soda)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the soda region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 6, column 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 8, column 9 (lilac)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the periwinkle tile at row 4, column 5.
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the lilac tile at row 4, column 9.
- Every open periwinkle tile sits in row 7, so that row's cat must be periwinkle. Cross out the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 5.
- Every open periwinkle tile sits in row 7, so that row's cat must be periwinkle. Cross out the lilac tile at row 7, column 8.
- Every open periwinkle tile sits in row 7, so that row's cat must be periwinkle. Cross out the lilac tile at row 7, column 9.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the lilac region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 8, column 9. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 9, column 5 (bubblegum)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 cats placed so far crossed out, column 5 has only one open tile left, the bubblegum tile at row 9, column 5, so its cat goes there. Technique: Last open tile in a row or column.
Cat 7: row 4, column 8 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 6 cats placed so far crossed out, column 8 has only one open tile left, the matcha tile at row 4, column 8, so its cat goes there. Technique: Last open tile in a row or column.
Cat 8: row 3, column 6 (butter)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 7 cats placed so far crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 9: row 7, column 7 (periwinkle)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 8 cats placed so far crossed out, 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.
Meowdoku Level 46 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 46 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 46?
In solve order, the cats go on row 1, column 2 (rose); row 2, column 4 (apricot); row 5, column 3 (mint); row 6, column 1 (soda); row 8, column 9 (lilac); row 9, column 5 (bubblegum); row 4, column 8 (matcha); row 3, column 6 (butter); and row 7, column 7 (periwinkle).
Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 46?
The first cat goes on row 1, column 2, the only tile in the rose region. A one-tile color can never move, so that placement is completely safe.
How do I find the lilac cat in Meowdoku Level 46?
Matcha is confined to row 4, so cross out the periwinkle tile at row 4, column 5 and the lilac tile at row 4, column 9. Periwinkle is then confined to row 7, which crosses out the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 5 and the lilac tiles at row 7, column 8 and row 7, column 9. Lilac is left with one open tile at row 8, column 9.
Which technique matters most in Meowdoku Level 46?
Technique T3, a color locked to one line, is used ten times on this board. Butter locks row 3, matcha locks row 4, and periwinkle locks row 7, and between them they create almost every cross you need.
Can I play Meowdoku Level 46 without downloading anything?
Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs completely in your web browser, which makes it one of the easiest brain games to start on a phone or a laptop.
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