Meowdoku Level 66 Walkthrough: Four Tiles Matcha Can Never Allow

The Meowdoku Level 66 board: giants and slivers

The nine colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the smallest region of all, a single tile in the very corner at row 1, column 1. Butter has two tiles stacked in column 8 at rows 2 and 3, lilac has two side by side at row 8, columns 8 and 9, and apricot has just three in the top left.

At the other end of the scale, bubblegum is the largest region on the board with twenty-five tiles across the bottom left and along row 9, and matcha has twenty-two tiles wrapped around the top and middle. Mint holds ten tiles in the right-hand middle, soda nine down column 1 and column 2, and periwinkle seven around rows 7 and 8.

In cat games with this shape, the slivers hand you your early cats and the giants provide the interesting deduction later on. It is worth remembering that a twenty-two tile color like matcha can still end up with only two open tiles, and that is precisely what happens here.

The opening move: rose in the corner, then three free cats

Start Meowdoku Level 66 on row 1, column 1. The rose region is that single corner tile, so the rose cat belongs there by technique T1, the last open tile in a color. A corner is the least generous place for a cat to sit, since it only blocks three neighbours, but it still clears an entire row and column.

It is enough to keep things moving. Apricot has only three tiles and loses two of them to the rose cat, so the apricot cat goes on row 2, column 3. Butter, a two-tile color in column 8, is left with row 3, column 8. Lilac, the other two-tile color, resolves to row 8, column 9. Four cats placed and not a single cross made by hand, which is a generous start for a medium board in these free online games.

The key moment: matcha holds only two tiles, and that is enough

Now the board tightens. Despite covering twenty-two tiles, matcha has lost rows 1, 2, and 3 to the first three cats and columns 1, 3, 8, and 9 as well, leaving only row 4, column 5 and row 5, column 5. Both are in column 5, so column 5 belongs to matcha. That is technique T3, and it lets you cross the bubblegum tiles at row 6, column 5, row 7, column 5, and row 9, column 5.

Two more line locks follow the same way, and they are the sort of tidy step that makes Meowdoku such a satisfying cat puzzle game. Soda is confined to column 2, so cross the bubblegum tile at row 9, column 2, and periwinkle is confined to row 7, so cross the soda tile at row 7, column 2 and the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 4.

Then comes the hardest idea on the board, technique T4, a tile touching every open tile of a color. Matcha will place its cat on either row 4, column 5 or row 5, column 5. The four tiles at row 4, column 4, row 4, column 6, row 5, column 4, and row 5, column 6 each sit next to both of those squares, so whichever one matcha chooses, a cat on any of those four tiles would be touching it. All four are crossed out in one sweep. That removes two mint tiles at once, which squeezes mint into column 7, and crossing the periwinkle tile at row 7, column 7 finally leaves periwinkle with one open tile at row 7, column 6. Mint then lands at row 5, column 7, matcha at row 4, column 5, soda at row 6, column 2, and bubblegum at row 9, column 4.

Learning to think in adjacency, not just lines

Most Meowdoku deductions start as questions about rows and columns, because those are the easiest to see. Level 66 rewards the other half of the rule set, the part that says no two cats may touch. Once a color is down to two or three tiles that are close together, the tiles surrounding all of them are dead squares, and crossing them can break a stalemate immediately.

Here is how to make that kind of thinking automatic in this cat puzzle game.

• When a color drops to two neighbouring tiles, look for every square that touches both of them and cross all of them.
• A single T4 sweep can knock out tiles in several other colors at once, as it does to mint here.
• Large regions deserve a fresh count after every cat, because they shrink faster than they look.
• Corner openings feel weak but still clear a full row and a full column, so trust them.
• Meowdoku is free to play in the browser and a hint will point out the next forced cat if a sweep like this one is hard to see.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 66?

In solve order the cats go on row 1, column 1 (rose); row 2, column 3 (apricot); row 3, column 8 (butter); row 8, column 9 (lilac); row 7, column 6 (periwinkle); row 5, column 7 (mint); row 4, column 5 (matcha); row 6, column 2 (soda); and row 9, column 4 (bubblegum).

Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 66?

On row 1, column 1. The rose region is that single corner tile, so the rose cat must go there, and it opens a run of three more cats that need no crosses at all.

How do I find the periwinkle cat in Meowdoku Level 66?

Matcha is confined to column 5, so cross the bubblegum tiles at row 6, column 5, row 7, column 5, and row 9, column 5. Soda owns column 2, so cross row 9, column 2, and periwinkle owns row 7, so cross the soda tile at row 7, column 2 and the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 4. Then cross row 4, column 4, row 4, column 6, row 5, column 4, and row 5, column 6, because each touches every open matcha tile, and cross the periwinkle tile at row 7, column 7 since mint owns column 7. Periwinkle is left with row 7, column 6.

What makes Meowdoku Level 66 tricky?

The fifth cat needs eleven crosses first, including four uses of technique T4 around the two remaining matcha tiles. That sweep is the hardest step, and once it is done the last five cats follow as the last open tile in their colors.

Is Meowdoku Level 66 free to play?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern web browser, so these animal games and brain games are available on your phone or computer with nothing to install.