Level 47 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 47 Walkthrough: Apricot Sweeps Row 2
Meowdoku Level 47 is an easy 10x10 board where one sweep of row 2 by apricot sets off a chain of eight straightforward cats across the whole grid.
Meowdoku Level 47 is the rare combination of a huge board and an easy rating. It is a 10x10 grid with ten colors, including latte, and yet the whole thing comes apart from a single observation about row 2. If a wide grid has ever made you nervous, this is the level that will fix that. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that plays in your browser, and Level 47 is a genuinely relaxing hundred tiles.
Nine of the ten cats on this board arrive because their color is down to one open tile, and the tenth needs just one row lock. This walkthrough covers the layout, the corner opening, the row 2 sweep that does all the heavy lifting, and what it teaches you about reading large boards quickly.
Meowdoku Level 47 at a glance
- Board: 10×10 grid with 10 colored regions and 10 cats to place
- Difficulty: Easy
- Hardest technique needed: Color locked to one line
- Logical steps: 16 (10 cats and 6 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 47 board layout
A hundred tiles are split between rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, bubblegum, and latte. Rose is the smallest of the ten with one tile in the top left corner at row 1, column 1, and butter is next with five tiles in the top right corner. Matcha has seven tiles just below rose.
Latte is the largest region at 22 tiles, spread across the bottom two rows and reaching up the middle. Bubblegum has 13 tiles down the right edge, mint has 12 tiles through the upper middle, soda has 11 tiles winding through the centre, and apricot, periwinkle, and lilac each hold nine or ten tiles in the top row, the middle right, and the left side.
Apricot is the region to watch. It runs almost all the way along row 1 and then hooks down into rows 2 and 3, which makes it wide but thin. In this cat puzzle game a wide thin region is often the first color to get locked into a single line, and that is exactly what happens here.
The opening move in the top left corner
The first cat of Meowdoku Level 47 goes on row 1, column 1. Rose has exactly one tile there, so its cat is forced, and that is technique T1, the last open tile in a color. Double-tap the corner and the top row plus the left column clear out around it.
That single placement is more powerful than it looks on a 10x10 board. Because apricot fills most of row 1, wiping row 1 off the board removes nearly the entire apricot region in one stroke, leaving only its tiles in rows 2 and 3. This sets up the one deduction Level 47 asks of you.
The key moment: apricot is trapped in row 2
After the rose cat, every open apricot tile sits in row 2. Apricot has to place a cat somewhere, so row 2 is guaranteed to be apricot’s row. This is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it is the hardest single step in Meowdoku Level 47.
Sweeping row 2 gives you six crosses at once: the matcha tile at row 2, column 3, the soda tile at row 2, column 5, the mint tiles at row 2, column 7 and row 2, column 8, and the butter tiles at row 2, column 9 and row 2, column 10. Six tiles from four different colors, all eliminated by one idea.
Butter feels that the most. With both of its row 2 tiles gone, butter has one open tile left at row 3, column 10, so the second cat goes there. From that point on the board simply unwinds: matcha at row 4, column 3, soda at row 6, column 4, apricot at row 2, column 6, mint at row 5, column 7, periwinkle at row 7, column 8, lilac at row 8, column 2, bubblegum at row 9, column 9, and latte at row 10, column 5. Every one of those eight cats is a color reduced to its last open tile.
Tips for moving fast on a large Meowdoku board
The lesson of Level 47 is that one good deduction can be worth more than twenty small ones. Locking apricot into row 2 produced six crosses and started a chain that solved the remaining eight cats without further thought, which is why it pays to look for the widest thin region on any big board.
Use these habits to keep large grids from feeling like work.
- Find the one-tile region first; on this board it is rose in the top left corner.
- Check which large region the opening cat damages most, since that region is your next clue.
- A wide, thin color that hooks into one row is the classic candidate for a row lock.
- When the lock lands, sweep the whole line in one pass and mark every cross with a single tap.
- Then follow the chain of last open tiles patiently; on Level 47 it runs for eight cats straight.
- The largest region, latte here, is usually the final cat, so do not spend time on it early.
Why easy Meowdoku boards are still worth playing
It would be easy to skim past a level rated easy, but boards like this one are where the patterns stick. Level 47 lets you practise a row lock with no pressure and then rewards you with the longest uninterrupted chain in this part of the campaign, which is exactly the feeling that makes these animal games so pleasant.
It is also a good reminder of how accessible Meowdoku is. The game is free, it lives in a browser tab, a single tap marks a cross and a double tap settles a cat, and a wrong cat only costs one fish. Among browser games and sudoku-style puzzles, that is a very low barrier to a hundred-tile logic problem.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 47 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 3, column 10 (butter)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the matcha tile at row 2, column 3.
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the soda tile at row 2, column 5.
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the mint tile at row 2, column 7.
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the mint tile at row 2, column 8.
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the butter tile at row 2, column 9.
- Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the butter tile at row 2, column 10.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the first cat crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 10. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 4, column 3 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 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 4: row 6, column 4 (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 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 2, column 6 (apricot)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the apricot region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 2, column 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 5, column 7 (mint)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 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 7: row 7, column 8 (periwinkle)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 6 cats placed so far crossed out, the periwinkle region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 7, column 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 8: row 8, column 2 (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 2. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 9: row 9, column 9 (bubblegum)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 8 cats placed so far crossed out, the bubblegum region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 9, column 9. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 10: row 10, column 5 (latte)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 9 cats placed so far crossed out, the latte region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 10, column 5. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 47 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 47 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 47?
In solve order, the cats go on row 1, column 1 (rose); row 3, column 10 (butter); row 4, column 3 (matcha); row 6, column 4 (soda); row 2, column 6 (apricot); row 5, column 7 (mint); row 7, column 8 (periwinkle); row 8, column 2 (lilac); row 9, column 9 (bubblegum); and row 10, column 5 (latte).
What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 47?
Place the first cat on row 1, column 1. Rose is a single-tile region in that corner, so the opening move on this 10x10 board needs no reasoning at all.
How do I find the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 47?
Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row must hold the apricot cat. Cross out the matcha tile at row 2, column 3, the soda tile at row 2, column 5, the mint tiles at row 2, column 7 and row 2, column 8, and the butter tiles at row 2, column 9 and row 2, column 10. Butter is then left with one open tile at row 3, column 10.
Is Meowdoku Level 47 hard because it is 10x10?
No. It is rated easy despite being one of the biggest boards, because nine of its ten cats come from a color having only one open tile left. The extra size mostly means each cat clears more space.
Do I need an account to play Meowdoku Level 47?
No. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game you can open in any modern web browser and start playing right away, which makes it easy to fit a board like Level 47 into a spare few minutes.
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