Meowdoku Level 79 Walkthrough: One Idea Solves the Whole Board

The Meowdoku Level 79 board at first glance

Level 79 hands you nine colors: rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the smallest region with one tile at row 1, column 1, and butter is next with five tiles sitting just to the right of it at row 1, columns 2 and 3, row 2, columns 2 and 3, and row 3, column 3.

Lilac is the largest color by far, with twenty-three tiles filling most of the bottom half of the grid. Matcha has thirteen tiles across the left middle, soda has nine through the center, apricot has eight spread along the top, mint has eight in the upper right, bubblegum has eight in the bottom left corner, and periwinkle has six on the right side.

The detail that matters most in this cat puzzle game is that apricot stretches along row 1 and dips into row 2. Because rose sits in the corner of row 1, apricot is about to lose most of its tiles the moment you place your first cat.

The opening: the forced corner and what it reveals

Rose has a single tile, so your first cat in Meowdoku Level 79 goes on row 1, column 1. That is technique T1, the last open tile in a color, and it clears the whole of row 1, the whole of column 1, and the tile at row 2, column 2.

Look at apricot now. Six of its eight tiles were in row 1, and row 1 has just disappeared. Everything apricot has left is in row 2, at column 7 and column 8. Since every row in Meowdoku holds exactly one cat, the cat in row 2 must be the apricot cat. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it means nothing else in the entire second row can hold a cat.

You do not have to act on that all at once, and the game does not ask you to. Instead this one fact gets used four times over the next few moves, each time to clear the single tile that is standing in another color's way.

The key moment: the same deduction, used four times

First, cross the butter tile at row 2, column 3. Butter had five tiles, row 1 took away two of them, the tile at row 2, column 2 went out as a neighbor of the rose cat, and this cross removes the fourth, so butter is left with a single open tile at row 3, column 3. That is your second cat, and placing it also clears the matcha tile at row 2, column 4 as a neighbor.

Second, cross the matcha tile at row 2, column 5. Matcha is now out of options everywhere except row 4, column 5, so the third cat lands there. Third, cross the soda tile at row 2, column 6, which leaves soda with one open tile at row 6, column 6 for the fourth cat. Fourth, cross the mint tile at row 2, column 9, and mint narrows to row 5, column 8 for the fifth cat.

With row 2 finally cleared of everything that is not apricot, the apricot cat itself takes row 2, column 7. Periwinkle then drops to row 7, column 9, lilac to row 8, column 4, and bubblegum to row 9, column 2. Nine cats, four crosses, and one idea repeated until Meowdoku Level 79 ran out of resistance, which is a remarkably tidy finish for a 9x9 cat puzzle game.

Spotting a lock you can use more than once

Most players treat a locked line as a one-off: cross everything in it and move on. Meowdoku Level 79 shows why it is better to treat a lock as a standing rule. Once you know row 2 belongs to apricot, every tile in row 2 is permanently dead for every other color, and you can reach for that fact again whenever a color looks stuck.

The practical version of this is simple. When you prove a lock, cross the whole line straight away rather than only the tile you needed at that moment. It costs a few extra taps and it saves you from rediscovering the same deduction three more times, which is a real time saver in longer logic puzzle games.

These habits generalize to every board in Meowdoku.

• When a color fits inside one line, clear that entire line of every other color at once.
• Write the lock down on the board with crosses, not in your head.
• After clearing a line, sweep the colors that had tiles in it, since they are the likeliest to be forced next.
• Give the biggest region the least attention early on; it resolves itself at the end.
• If you ever feel unsure, a hint reveals the next forced cat without costing you a fish.

What makes Meowdoku a great cat puzzle game

Meowdoku takes the familiar one-per-row, one-per-column skeleton of sudoku-style puzzles and adds two rules that change everything: every colored region needs its own cat, and no two cats may touch, not even at a corner. The result is a puzzle where the shape of the regions matters as much as the grid itself, which is why a board like Meowdoku Level 79 can be solved with a single clean insight.

It is also free, it plays in the browser on any device, and a level like this one fits comfortably into a coffee break. If you like cozy animal games with real logic under the cuteness, working through the campaign level by level is a genuinely satisfying way to spend a few quiet minutes a day.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 79?

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

Where does the first cat go in Meowdoku Level 79?

The first cat goes on row 1, column 1, because rose is a single-tile region in Meowdoku Level 79. Clearing row 1 is what traps apricot in row 2, which is the key to the whole board.

Which tiles do I need to cross in Meowdoku Level 79?

Just four, and all of them are in row 2, which is reserved for apricot. Cross the butter tile at row 2, column 3, the matcha tile at row 2, column 5, the soda tile at row 2, column 6, and the mint tile at row 2, column 9. Each cross forces the next cat.

Why is Meowdoku Level 79 rated easy?

Because thirteen steps and four crosses is a very light load for a 9x9 grid, and the hardest idea in the level is technique T3, a color locked to one line. It is one of the friendliest of the larger boards in these cat games.

Can I play Meowdoku Level 79 on my phone?

Yes. Meowdoku is one of those free online games that runs in a mobile browser as well as on a desktop. Single-tap to place a cross, double-tap to settle a cat, and the board scales to your screen.