Level 80 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 80 Walkthrough: Rose Opens the Periwinkle Sprawl
Meowdoku Level 80 is a medium 7x7 board with seven colors, where a single rose tile opens the level and the tiny apricot region locks row 2 for you.
Meowdoku Level 80 is a medium 7x7 board with seven colors, and it is one of those friendly levels where every deduction leads straight into the next one. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs right in your browser, so you can open Level 80 and start placing cats without installing anything. The rules stay the same as always: one cat in every color region, one in every row, one in every column, and no two cats touching, not even at a corner.
What makes Level 80 pleasant is the size of its regions. Rose is a single tile, apricot is only two tiles, and soda is only three, while periwinkle sprawls across eighteen tiles at the bottom and left. In cat games like this, the small regions do the talking, and this guide walks through the layout, the forced opening, the one tricky elimination in the middle, and the habits that make later logic puzzle games easier.
Meowdoku Level 80 at a glance
- Board: 7×7 grid with 7 colored regions and 7 cats to place
- Difficulty: Medium
- Hardest technique needed: Tile touching a whole color
- Logical steps: 14 (7 cats and 7 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 80 board layout
The seven colors on this 7x7 grid are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, and periwinkle. Rose is the smallest region with a single tile at row 1, column 2. Apricot has just two tiles, side by side at row 2, columns 5 and 6, and soda has three tiles tucked into the bottom right corner around row 5, column 7 and row 6, columns 6 and 7.
Butter takes six tiles across the top right, mint has nine tiles in the middle, and matcha has ten tiles wrapping the top left. Periwinkle is the giant of this cat puzzle game board with eighteen tiles, filling the entire bottom row and most of the lower left. A region that large almost never gives you a clue early, so in Meowdoku Level 80 you work from the small colors inward.
The opening move and why it is forced
Your first cat in Meowdoku Level 80 goes on row 1, column 2, and there is nothing to work out. The rose region is exactly one tile, and every color must hold a cat, so that tile is settled before you even look at the rest of the board. Double-tap it to place the cat.
That one placement clears row 1 and column 2 entirely, along with the tiles that touch it. Matcha wraps the top left corner, so losing row 1 and column 2 squeezes it hard. Free online games like Meowdoku usually hand you a gift like this at the start, and the trick is to immediately ask which other color just got smaller.
The answer is matcha, but you need two more crosses first. Because both open apricot tiles sit in row 2, row 2 belongs to apricot, so the matcha tile at row 2, column 4 and the butter tile at row 2, column 7 are out. Then, because every open butter tile sits in row 3, row 3 belongs to butter, which removes the matcha tile at row 3, column 1. Matcha is left with one open tile at row 4, column 1, and that is your second cat.
The key moment: butter owns row 3
The hardest step in Meowdoku Level 80 is the third cat, and it rests on one observation about butter. After the rose and matcha cats are down, every remaining butter tile lies in row 3. Since row 3 has to contain exactly one cat and butter has to go somewhere, the cat in row 3 must be the butter cat. Everything else in row 3 can be crossed off: the periwinkle tile at row 3, column 3 and the mint tiles at row 3, columns 4 and 5.
Then comes the one genuinely clever elimination on this board, technique T4, a tile that touches every open tile of a color. Apricot still has two candidates, and the tile at row 3, column 6 sits next to both of them. Wherever the apricot cat lands, it would be touching row 3, column 6, and cats are never allowed to touch. So that tile gets a cross even though nothing about rows or columns rules it out.
With those four crosses in place, butter has exactly one open tile left at row 3, column 7, and the third cat lands there. From that point Meowdoku Level 80 unravels quickly: apricot drops to row 2, column 5, soda to row 6, column 6, mint to row 5, column 4, and periwinkle finally takes row 7, column 3.
Tips that carry into later Meowdoku levels
Level 80 is a good rehearsal for the harder boards ahead, because it uses two ideas you will need over and over in these brain games. The first is that a color squeezed into a single row or column claims that whole line. The second is that a tile touching every candidate of a color is dead, no matter how much space that tile seems to have.
Keep these habits in mind as you work through the rest of the Meowdoku campaign of animal games.
- Scan for one-tile regions first; rose gives you a free cat here and on many other boards.
- After every cat, check which color just lost the most options rather than looking at the whole grid again.
- When a color fits inside one row or column, cross out every other color in that line immediately.
- Test the tiles beside a two-tile region such as apricot, since one of them often touches both candidates.
- Ignore the biggest region until late; periwinkle resolves on its own once the other six cats are down.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 80 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 2 (rose)
The rose region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 1, column 2. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 2: row 4, column 1 (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 matcha tile at row 2, column 4.
- 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 butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the matcha tile at row 3, column 1.
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 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 3, column 7 (butter)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the periwinkle tile at row 3, column 3.
- 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 4.
- 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 5.
- The tile at row 3, column 6 touches every open tile left in the apricot region. Wherever the apricot cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 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 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 6, column 6 (soda)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the soda region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 6, column 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 5, column 4 (mint)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 cats placed so far crossed out, the mint region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 5, column 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 7, column 3 (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 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 80 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 80 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 80?
In solve order, the cats go on row 1, column 2 (rose); row 4, column 1 (matcha); row 3, column 7 (butter); row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 6, column 6 (soda); row 5, column 4 (mint); and row 7, column 3 (periwinkle).
Where does the first cat go in Meowdoku Level 80?
The first cat goes on row 1, column 2. Rose is a one-tile region on this board, 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 find the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 80?
Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so row 3 belongs to butter. Cross out the periwinkle tile at row 3, column 3 and the mint tiles at row 3, columns 4 and 5. Also cross out row 3, column 6, because it touches every open apricot tile. Butter is then left with row 3, column 7.
How hard is Meowdoku Level 80?
It is rated medium. The full solve takes fourteen steps with seven crosses, and the toughest idea is a single use of technique T4, where one tile touches every open apricot tile. That makes it one of the gentler logic puzzle games in this stretch of the campaign.
Is Meowdoku free to play in a browser?
Yes. Meowdoku is completely free and plays in any modern web browser on a phone, tablet, or computer. Single-tap a tile to mark a cross, double-tap to settle a cat, and use a hint if you want the next forced cat revealed.
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