Meowdoku Level 52 Walkthrough: Stacking Row 1 and Row 2

The shape of the Meowdoku Level 52 board

The eight colors here are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac. Butter is the smallest region in the level with a single tile at row 3, column 1, pressed against the left edge and completely surrounded by soda. Periwinkle is the second smallest with two tiles, stacked in column 7 at rows 6 and 7.

Soda is the largest region with fifteen tiles wandering down the left half of the board, lilac has fourteen tiles filling the bottom, mint has thirteen on the right side, and matcha has ten across the middle. Rose holds four tiles in row 1 and row 2, while apricot holds five tiles spread across rows 2 and 3.

The picture to keep in mind for this cat puzzle game is that the big shapes, soda, lilac, and mint, all resolve late. The action in Meowdoku Level 52 lives in the narrow shapes: butter on the left edge, periwinkle in column 7, and the rose and apricot pair in the top rows.

The opening move: butter on the left edge

Your first cat in Meowdoku Level 52 goes on row 3, column 1. Butter is a one-tile region, so technique T1 applies at once and there is no decision to make. Double-tap that tile and the cat settles in.

This is a well-placed gift. Row 3, column 1 clears a chunk of the soda region around it and takes out part of the apricot shape in row 3, which is exactly the pressure the next step needs. When you are learning these free online games, take a second after every cat to look at which colors just shrank rather than jumping straight to the next scan.

The key moment: three colors claim three lines

This is the central puzzle of Meowdoku Level 52 and it is all technique T3, a color locked to one line. Start with apricot: every open apricot tile now sits in row 2, so row 2 must belong to the apricot cat, and the rose tile at row 2, column 3 is crossed out. That squeezes rose, and every open rose tile now sits in row 1, so row 1 must belong to the rose cat. Out go the soda tile at row 1, column 2 and the mint tiles at row 1, columns 6, 7, and 8.

Apricot owning row 2 also clears the matcha tiles at row 2, column 6 and row 2, column 7 and the mint tile at row 2, column 8. Meanwhile periwinkle, with only two tiles, has all of them in column 7, so that column is reserved for periwinkle: cross out the matcha tile at row 4, column 7, the mint tile at row 5, column 7, and the lilac tile at row 8, column 7. One more cross comes from technique T4, because the tile at row 2, column 4 touches every open rose tile and therefore cannot hold a cat itself. Apricot is now down to one option, so the second cat goes on row 2, column 5, and rose immediately follows at row 1, column 3.

Two more crosses set up the fourth cat. Matcha becomes locked to row 4, which removes the mint tile at row 4, column 8, and the tile at row 6, column 7 touches every open mint tile, so it is crossed out too. Periwinkle then has one open tile and its cat goes on row 7, column 7. The fifth cat is the only placement in the level that comes from technique T2, the last open tile in a line: column 8 has just one tile left open, the mint tile at row 5, column 8. Soda then takes row 6, column 2, lilac takes row 8, column 4, and matcha closes the board at row 4, column 6.

Turning line locks into a reflex

If you take one thing from Meowdoku Level 52, make it this: whenever a color has all of its open tiles in one row or one column, that whole line is spoken for. On this board that single idea fires twelve separate times, and it cascades, because each lock shrinks another color until it is locked too.

These are the practical habits that make boards like this feel fast in Meowdoku and other brain games.

• After every cat, ask which colors now have all their open tiles in a single row or column.
• Chase the chain, since rose only became locked to row 1 after apricot claimed row 2.
• Treat two-tile regions like periwinkle as line locks by default, because two tiles in a line almost always are.
• Remember to check rows and columns for a single remaining open tile, which is how the mint cat appeared in column 8.
• Keep the crosses on the board with single taps; the chain is hard to follow from memory alone.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 52?

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

Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 52?

Place the first cat on row 3, column 1. Butter is a one-tile region in Meowdoku Level 52, so that tile is the only home the butter cat can have.

How do I find the apricot cat in Meowdoku Level 52?

Apricot is confined to row 2, which crosses out the rose tile at row 2, column 3, the matcha tiles at row 2, columns 6 and 7, and the mint tile at row 2, column 8. Rose is then confined to row 1, clearing the soda tile at row 1, column 2 and the mint tiles at row 1, columns 6, 7, and 8. Periwinkle owns column 7, so the matcha tile at row 4, column 7, the mint tile at row 5, column 7, and the lilac tile at row 8, column 7 go as well, and row 2, column 4 is crossed out because it touches every open rose tile. Apricot is left with row 2, column 5.

Which cat in Meowdoku Level 52 comes from a row or column instead of a color?

The mint cat. After five cats are placed, column 8 has only one open tile left at row 5, column 8, so that is technique T2, the last open tile in a row or column. Every other cat in Meowdoku Level 52 is forced by its own color region.

Is Meowdoku free to play in a browser?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that works in any modern web browser, so you can play these cat games and animal games without downloading anything.