Meowdoku Level 82 Walkthrough: When Matcha and Mint Book Two Rows

The Meowdoku Level 82 board layout

The colors on this 9x9 grid are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Rose is the smallest region by far, a single tile at row 1, column 2. Mint is next with only four tiles, stacked in column 9 from row 2 down to row 5, and apricot has five tiles along the top right.

Soda and lilac are the largest regions at fifteen tiles each, soda claiming the right side below apricot and lilac filling the lower middle. Periwinkle has thirteen tiles down the left edge, matcha ten tiles in the upper left interior, and butter and bubblegum nine tiles each, butter near the top and bubblegum in the bottom left corner.

The important detail for this cat puzzle game is mint. Four tiles in a single column is a very strong clue, and it becomes the first domino in the long middle sequence of Meowdoku Level 82.

The opening move and the two easy follow-ups

Place the first cat on row 1, column 2. Rose is a one-tile region on this board, so it is forced without any reasoning at all, and that makes it the ideal opening for Meowdoku Level 82.

Removing row 1 and column 2 shrinks apricot down to a single option at row 2, column 8, so your second cat goes there. Butter then loses its remaining candidates in the same sweep and is left with row 3, column 6, which is your third cat. Three cats placed and not one cross needed, which is the friendly face of these animal games.

That pleasant run stops immediately. The fourth cat in Meowdoku Level 82 needs a long argument, and it starts with the mint region sitting quietly in column 9.

The key moment: matcha and mint reserve rows 4 and 5

Begin with the columns. Every open mint tile sits in column 9, so the cat in column 9 must be the mint cat, and the soda tiles at row 6, column 9 through row 9, column 9 all get crossed out. That squeezes soda until every open soda tile sits in column 7, which means column 7 belongs to soda, and the lilac tiles at row 7, column 7, row 8, column 7, and row 9, column 7 are gone too.

Next comes a neighbour cross, technique T4. The tile at row 5, column 4 touches every open matcha tile, so wherever the matcha cat ends up it would be sitting right beside that tile. It cannot hold a cat, so mark it.

Now the best moment in Meowdoku Level 82, technique T5, matched colors and lines. Matcha and mint can each only place a cat in row 4 or row 5. That is two colors needing two rows, so between them they use up both rows entirely, and no other color may take a cat in row 4 or row 5. Out go the periwinkle tiles at row 4, columns 1 and 3, the periwinkle tiles at row 5, columns 1 and 3, and the soda tile at row 5, column 7. Soda now has exactly one open tile at row 6, column 7, and the fourth cat finally lands in this cat puzzle game. Periwinkle follows at row 7, column 1. Then a small extra step appears: because every open lilac tile sits in row 8, row 8 belongs to lilac, and the bubblegum tile at row 8, column 3 is crossed out. That leaves column 3 with a single open tile, so the bubblegum cat goes to row 9, column 3 by technique T2. Lilac, matcha, and mint then fill row 8, column 5, row 4, column 4, and row 5, column 9.

Tips for spotting reserved lines in Meowdoku

The matched-colors idea is the single most useful tool in the harder half of Meowdoku, and Level 82 shows it in its cleanest form. If two colors between them can only reach two rows, those rows are booked. The same works for three colors and three rows, and for columns just as well as rows.

It sounds abstract, but in practice you find it by keeping track of which colors have become small. Once a color is down to two or three tiles, note which lines it can reach, and compare it with the other small colors. These free online games reward that bookkeeping far more than speed.

• Write off a column the moment one color owns every open tile in it, as mint does with column 9 here.
• Chains matter: crossing soda out of column 9 is what locks soda into column 7.
• Track the reachable rows for every small color so matched pairs jump out at you.
• Remember that the last open tile in a row or column forces a cat too, which is how bubblegum resolves on this board.
• Use a hint if a long stretch of crosses stalls you; it reveals the next forced cat without ending your run.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 82?

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

What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 82?

Put the first cat on row 1, column 2, the single rose tile. Because every color must hold exactly one cat, a one-tile region is always settled before you look at anything else on the board.

How do I find the soda cat in Meowdoku Level 82?

Mint owns column 9, so cross out the soda tiles at row 6, column 9 down to row 9, column 9. Soda is then locked to column 7, which clears the lilac tiles at row 7, row 8, and row 9 of column 7. Cross out row 5, column 4 because it touches every open matcha tile. Finally, matcha and mint reserve rows 4 and 5, which removes the periwinkle tiles at row 4, columns 1 and 3, the periwinkle tiles at row 5, columns 1 and 3, and the soda tile at row 5, column 7. Soda is left with row 6, column 7.

Why do matcha and mint block rows 4 and 5 in Meowdoku Level 82?

Because by that point in the solve both colors can only reach row 4 and row 5. Two colors that need two rows fill both of them completely, so every other color has to be crossed out of those rows. That is technique T5, matched colors and lines.

Is Meowdoku free and does it need a download?

Meowdoku is free and needs no download at all. It is one of those browser games you simply open and play, on a phone or a computer, and Level 82 is available straight away alongside the rest of the campaign.