Meowdoku Level 64 Walkthrough: The Tile Apricot Ruins for Butter

The Meowdoku Level 64 layout

The seven colors on this board are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, and periwinkle. Rose is the smallest region with one tile at row 1, column 2, and it is your opening. Matcha has three tiles around row 3 and row 4 in columns 2 and 3, while butter and mint each hold four and soda five.

Periwinkle is easily the largest color at twenty tiles, filling the bottom left and most of the middle right, and apricot covers twelve tiles across the top two rows plus row 3, column 1. On a grid this size, twenty tiles is nearly half the board, so periwinkle is best treated as background rather than a puzzle.

The shapes to study are the narrow ones. Matcha, mint, butter, and soda are all small and awkwardly placed, and in this cat puzzle game that combination almost always means several of them will end up trapped in a single row or column.

The opening move: rose has a single tile

Start Meowdoku Level 64 by placing a cat on row 1, column 2. The rose region is only that tile, so the rose cat is forced there by technique T1, the last open tile in a color. Double-tap the square to settle the cat and nothing can go wrong.

That one cat does a surprising amount of work on a 7x7 grid. It removes all of row 1 and all of column 2, and it blocks the three tiles directly below it at row 2, columns 1, 2, and 3. On a small board in these free online games, the first cat reaches almost everywhere, which is why the crosses that follow come so quickly.

Chaining the line locks after the first cat

With row 1 and column 2 gone, four colors give themselves away in sequence. Matcha has only row 3, column 3 and row 4, column 3 left, so column 3 is matcha and you cross the periwinkle tiles at row 5, column 3, row 6, column 3, and row 7, column 3. Mint is reduced to row 4, column 1 and row 5, column 1, so column 1 is mint and the apricot tile at row 3, column 1 is crossed.

That cross squeezes apricot into row 2, which reserves the row and lets you cross the butter tiles at row 2, column 6 and row 2, column 7. Butter is now stuck in row 3, so row 3 is butter and the matcha tile at row 3, column 3 comes off the board. Matcha is left with one open tile at row 4, column 3, and the second cat lands there. Mint follows at row 5, column 1.

All four of those steps are technique T3, a color locked to one line. The lesson of this stretch of Meowdoku Level 64 is that a line lock is not an isolated trick; it is a domino. Each one narrows a neighbouring color until that neighbour locks too, and one small cross at row 3, column 1 is what sets the whole run going.

The key moment: crossing row 3, column 5

Butter is the hardest cat on this board. Keep going with the line locks first: butter still owns row 3, so cross the soda tile at row 3, column 7, and once soda is confined to row 6 you can cross the periwinkle tiles at row 6, column 4 and row 6, column 5. Butter is down to two options at row 3, column 5 and row 3, column 6.

To choose between them you need a different idea, technique T4, a tile touching every open tile of a color. At this point apricot has only two open tiles left, at row 2, column 4 and row 2, column 5. The tile at row 3, column 5 sits diagonally below one and directly below the other, so it touches both. Wherever the apricot cat lands, it would be adjacent to row 3, column 5, and since no two cats may touch, that tile can never hold a cat at all.

Cross it out and butter has a single open tile at row 3, column 6, which gives you the fourth cat. Apricot then resolves to row 2, column 4, soda to row 6, column 7, and periwinkle to row 7, column 5 to finish the board. Crossing a tile because of a color that has not been placed yet feels strange the first time, but it is one of the most useful ideas in Meowdoku and in sudoku-style puzzles built on the no-touching rule.

What Level 64 teaches about small grids

Small boards concentrate the logic. With only seven rows, every cat you place blacks out a seventh of the grid, so the useful deductions arrive in bursts rather than being spread out. Level 64 is a good template for how to handle that: milk the line locks, and when they run dry, switch to touching arguments.

Carry these habits into the next boards you open in this cat puzzle game.

• Re-scan every small color after each cross, not just after each cat, because one lock often triggers another.
• When two options remain for a color, look for a tile that every open tile of a different color touches.
• Remember that a touching cross works even before the other color has a cat placed on it.
• On a 7x7 grid the largest region, here periwinkle, will usually be last and needs no attention early.
• Meowdoku is free in the browser, and a hint will show the next forced cat if a chain like this one slips away.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 64?

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

Where does the first cat go in Meowdoku Level 64?

The first cat goes on row 1, column 2, because the rose region consists of that single tile. It is a free and completely safe opening move that clears row 1 and column 2 straight away.

How do I pin down the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 64?

Butter owns row 3, so cross the soda tile at row 3, column 7, then cross the periwinkle tiles at row 6, column 4 and row 6, column 5 because soda owns row 6. Finally cross row 3, column 5, since it touches every open apricot tile. Butter is left with row 3, column 6.

What techniques does Meowdoku Level 64 use?

It uses technique T1 for all seven placements, ten uses of technique T3 where a color is locked to one row or column, and one use of technique T4 at row 3, column 5, which is the hardest step on the board.

Is Meowdoku Level 64 free to play in a browser?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern web browser, so these cat games and animal games are always a click away on your phone, tablet, or computer.