Meowdoku Level 70 Walkthrough: Three Columns Claimed at Once

Reading the Meowdoku Level 70 board

Level 70 is a 9x9 grid with nine colors: rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the smallest region in the puzzle, a single tile at row 1, column 2. Butter is barely larger with only three tiles, sitting at row 2, columns 6 and 7, and row 3, column 7.

The heavy regions sit low and to the right. Bubblegum is the largest with eighteen tiles filling most of the lower left, lilac holds fourteen tiles through the middle right and along the bottom, and matcha, mint, and periwinkle each take ten. Soda has nine tiles in a band through the middle left, and apricot has six tiles stretched across the top right.

Learning where the small colors live is the quickest way into any cat puzzle game. In Meowdoku Level 70 the tiny rose and butter regions start the chain, while the crowded right edge is where the real thinking waits.

The opening: four cats without a single cross

The first move in Meowdoku Level 70 is decided before you touch the board. Rose is a one-tile region, so double-tap row 1, column 2 and the rose cat settles there. That cat clears all of row 1, all of column 2, and the tiles immediately around it.

Apricot loses everything it had in row 1 plus the tile next door, which leaves row 2, column 5 as its only open tile, so the second cat goes there. Butter is then down to row 3, column 7, and matcha is squeezed to row 4, column 1. Four cats are placed and you have not had to mark a single cross yourself, which makes this a friendly stretch even for players who are new to these animal games.

All four of those placements are technique T1, the last open tile in a color. It is the most common idea in Meowdoku and it is worth rechecking every color after each cat you settle.

The key moment: mint, periwinkle, and lilac claim their columns

With four cats down, the fifth one takes real work. Start with mint. Every mint tile that is still open sits in column 8, so the cat for column 8 has to be the mint cat. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it lets you cross the periwinkle tiles at row 7, column 8 and row 8, column 8 along with the lilac tile at row 9, column 8.

The same idea fires twice more. Every open periwinkle tile now sits in column 9, so cross the lilac tiles at row 8, column 9 and row 9, column 9. Every open lilac tile sits in column 6, so cross the bubblegum tile at row 9, column 6. Three colors have reserved three separate columns along the right side of the board, and the middle of this cat puzzle game suddenly looks much thinner.

Two crosses finish the job using technique T4, a tile that touches every open tile of a color. Row 5, column 9 and row 6, column 9 each sit beside all the mint options that remain, so a mint cat anywhere would touch them and neither tile can hold a cat of its own. Cross them and periwinkle has exactly one open tile left at row 7, column 9. After that fifth cat lands, mint, soda, lilac, and bubblegum each fall to a last open tile in turn.

Tips you can carry into the next Meowdoku levels

Level 70 is a useful reminder that a quiet opening does not promise an easy finish. Meowdoku often hands you several free cats and then asks for one genuinely careful deduction, so keep your attention up at the moment the placements stop arriving on their own.

These habits pay off on every board in this collection of free online games.

Work through them in order and you will rarely need to guess in Meowdoku, which keeps your fish count intact for the harder levels ahead.

• After every cat, scan the smallest remaining colors first, because they run out of options soonest.
• When all of a color fits inside one row or one column, that line belongs to the color and everything else in it can be crossed out.
• Hunt for tiles that sit beside every option a color has left, since those tiles can never hold a cat.
• Single-tap each cross as soon as you prove it so the board carries your reasoning instead of your memory.
• If the chain breaks, a hint reveals the next forced cat and keeps you from losing a fish to a guess.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 70?

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

Where does the first cat go in Meowdoku Level 70?

Your opening cat belongs on row 1, column 2. Rose is a single-tile region in Meowdoku Level 70, so that tile is the only place the rose cat can ever sit, which makes it the safest opening move in the level.

How do I force the periwinkle cat in Meowdoku Level 70?

Lock three columns first. Mint fits only in column 8, so cross row 7, column 8, row 8, column 8, and row 9, column 8. Periwinkle fits only in column 9, so cross row 8, column 9 and row 9, column 9. Lilac fits only in column 6, so cross row 9, column 6. Then cross row 5, column 9 and row 6, column 9 because each touches every open mint tile. Periwinkle is left with row 7, column 9.

How hard is Meowdoku Level 70?

Meowdoku Level 70 sits in the medium band. The full solution takes seventeen steps, only eight of which are crosses, and the toughest idea you need is technique T4, a tile that touches every open tile of a color. It is a good stepping stone between the gentle boards and the harder brain games later in the campaign.

Is Meowdoku free to play in a browser?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern web browser, so you can play these cat games and animal games on a phone, tablet, or computer without installing anything.