Level 62 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 62 Walkthrough: Two Stacked Rows Beat the Soda Sprawl
Meowdoku Level 62 is a medium 9x9 board where apricot claims row 2 and butter claims row 3, and those eight crosses are all the work the level really asks for.
Meowdoku Level 62 is a medium 9x9 board with nine colors, and the first thing you notice is how much of it is soda. That one region alone covers twenty-one tiles, curling down the middle and right side of the grid. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in your browser, and levels like this one show that a huge region is rarely the thing standing in your way.
The whole level turns on two neat observations about rows 2 and 3, worth eight crosses between them. After that, seven colors resolve one after another with no further eliminations at all. It is a compact, confidence-building board for anyone who enjoys logic puzzle games and wants a clean example of how region shapes betray themselves.
Meowdoku Level 62 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: 17 (9 cats and 8 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The shape of the Meowdoku Level 62 board
The colors on this 9x9 grid are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the smallest region with one tile at row 1, column 3, so that is where the level begins. Mint is next with three tiles stacked in column 1 at rows 3, 4, and 5, and matcha has four tiles running down column 9 from row 1 to row 4.
Soda is the giant at twenty-one tiles, taking the centre of the board and the right edge below matcha. Apricot and lilac each cover thirteen tiles, bubblegum twelve, and butter and periwinkle seven each. In a cat puzzle game built on regions, it helps to think of the big shapes as scenery and the thin ones as clues.
Look in particular at apricot and butter. Apricot fills most of rows 1 and 2 plus a few tiles below, while butter forms a wide band across rows 2 and 3. Those overlapping bands are the reason Level 62 solves as quickly as it does.
The opening move: rose at row 1, column 3
Your first cat has only one legal home. The rose region on Meowdoku Level 62 is a single tile at row 1, column 3, so the rose cat settles there by technique T1, the last open tile in a color. Double-tap it and you are underway with your fish untouched.
That cat immediately empties row 1 and column 3 and blocks the ring of tiles around it. Crucially, it removes every apricot tile in row 1 from consideration. A one-tile color is always the best first move in these free online games, because it is free information that ripples outward across the grid.
The key moment: apricot owns row 2, butter owns row 3
With the rose cat placed, row 1 is gone and so is column 3, and what remains of apricot all sits in row 2. A color that fits inside one row must use that row, so row 2 is reserved for apricot. This is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it lets you cross out the butter tiles at row 2, columns 6, 7, and 8 along with the matcha tile at row 2, column 9.
Now repeat the same reasoning one row lower. Those crosses have pushed butter entirely into row 3, so row 3 belongs to butter. Cross the mint tile at row 3, column 1, the lilac tile at row 3, column 2, the soda tile at row 3, column 8, and the matcha tile at row 3, column 9. One line-lock triggers the next, which is a pattern you will see over and over in Meowdoku and in sudoku-style puzzles generally.
Matcha is the victim of both moves. Its four tiles run down column 9 from row 1 to row 4, and rows 1, 2, and 3 have all been taken away, so the matcha cat is forced onto row 4, column 9. That is the second cat, and it is the last time you need to cross anything. Mint at row 5, column 1, apricot at row 2, column 5, butter at row 3, column 7, soda at row 6, column 8, periwinkle at row 7, column 6, lilac at row 8, column 2, and bubblegum at row 9, column 4 each arrive as the last open tile in their color.
How to spot line locks faster in future levels
Meowdoku Level 62 is a masterclass in one skill: reading thin regions. Any color shaped like a strip, or reduced to a strip once the first cats land, is a candidate for a line lock. Practise the question "is this color now inside a single row or column?" after every cat you place, and medium boards start to feel like easy ones.
These habits from Level 62 will keep paying off as the campaign moves into tougher territory.
- After each cat, re-check the small colors before touching the large ones.
- A line lock in one row often forces a second line lock in the row next to it, so look for chains.
- Colors that run down a single column, like matcha here, are usually decided by what happens above them.
- Do not be intimidated by a region as large as soda; it simply waits until everything else is settled.
- Use a hint if you stall, and remember Meowdoku is free to play in the browser so you can retry freely.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 62 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 3 (rose)
The rose region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 1, column 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 2: row 4, column 9 (matcha)
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 butter tile at row 2, column 6.
- 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 7.
- 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 8.
- 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 9.
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the mint 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 lilac tile at row 3, column 2.
- 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 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.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the first cat crossed out, the matcha region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 4, column 9. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 5, column 1 (mint)
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 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 4: row 2, column 5 (apricot)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the apricot region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 2, column 5. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 3, column 7 (butter)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 7. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 6, column 8 (soda)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 cats placed so far crossed out, the soda region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 6, column 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 7, column 6 (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 6. 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 4 (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 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 62 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 62 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 62?
In solve order the cats go on row 1, column 3 (rose); row 4, column 9 (matcha); row 5, column 1 (mint); row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 3, column 7 (butter); row 6, column 8 (soda); row 7, column 6 (periwinkle); row 8, column 2 (lilac); and row 9, column 4 (bubblegum).
Where is the first cat placed in Meowdoku Level 62?
On row 1, column 3. The rose region is only that one tile, so the rose cat is forced there and it is the safest possible opening in this cat puzzle game.
How do I work out the matcha cat in Meowdoku Level 62?
Every open apricot tile sits in row 2, so row 2 is apricot and you cross the butter tiles at row 2, columns 6, 7, and 8 and the matcha tile at row 2, column 9. Butter is then confined to row 3, so cross the mint tile at row 3, column 1, the lilac tile at row 3, column 2, the soda tile at row 3, column 8, and the matcha tile at row 3, column 9. Matcha is left with row 4, column 9.
Why does Meowdoku Level 62 feel easier than its medium rating?
Because all eight of its crosses come from two uses of technique T3, and once the matcha cat lands the remaining seven cats are each simply the last open tile in their color. It is one of the most cleanly structured logic puzzle games in this part of the campaign.
Is Meowdoku free to play online?
Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that works in any modern browser, which makes it easy to dip into these animal games and brain games for a few minutes at a time on any device.
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