Level 87 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 87 Walkthrough: One Apricot Tile Inside a Soda Ocean
Meowdoku Level 87 is an easy 9x9 board dominated by a 29-tile soda region, and its opening cat is the single apricot tile buried inside it.
Meowdoku Level 87 is an easy 9x9 board with nine colors, and it is worth playing just to see how one enormous region behaves. Soda takes up twenty-nine of the eighty-one tiles here, sprawling across the middle and the left of the grid, while eight much smaller colors crowd the edges. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that plays in your browser, and the rules are always one cat per region, per row, and per column, with no two cats touching.
A region that big cannot tell you anything early, so this level is solved entirely from its small colors. Apricot is a single tile sitting right inside the soda ocean, rose is two tiles in the corner, and butter and matcha are five tiles each. Four crosses across the whole solve are all Meowdoku Level 87 asks for. Below you will find the layout, the forced opening, the row claims that matter, and the tips they teach.
Meowdoku Level 87 at a glance
- Board: 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions and 9 cats to place
- Difficulty: Easy
- Hardest technique needed: Color locked to one line
- Logical steps: 13 (9 cats and 4 crosses)
- Smallest color: apricot with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 87 board layout
The nine colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, and bubblegum. Apricot is the smallest region, a single tile at row 2, column 5, completely surrounded by soda. Rose is two tiles in the top left corner at row 1, columns 1 and 2.
Butter and matcha each have five tiles, butter around the top left below rose and matcha running down column 6 from row 1 to row 4. Mint and periwinkle each have eight tiles in the top right, lilac has six tiles in the lower left middle, and bubblegum has seventeen tiles across the bottom right.
And then there is soda, with twenty-nine tiles. It is more than a third of this cat puzzle game board, stretching from row 1, column 4 all the way down to row 8, column 2. Regions that large are never your starting point, because they always have plenty of open tiles left. In Meowdoku Level 87, soda is simply the space the other colors carve up.
The opening move and why it is forced
Place the first cat on row 2, column 5. Apricot is one tile and one tile only, so despite being surrounded by soda on every side, that tile is settled before any other reasoning happens. It is an unusual opening for these animal games, since you are starting in the middle of the biggest region rather than at an edge.
The cat clears row 2 and column 5 and the eight tiles around it. Butter loses its tiles in row 2, leaving it with just row 1, column 3 and row 3, column 1. That is not yet a single option, so the board needs one cross.
Look at rose. Both of its tiles sit in row 1, so row 1 belongs to rose and every other color must leave that row. Cross out the butter tile at row 1, column 3. Butter now has one open tile at row 3, column 1, and the second cat lands there. Rose itself follows immediately at row 1, column 2, because row 1, column 1 was a neighbour of the butter cat.
The key moment: matcha claims row 4
With three cats down, Meowdoku Level 87 needs one more deduction to finish itself off, and it involves matcha. Matcha ran down column 6 through four rows, but rows 1, 2, and 3 have all been eliminated by the cats already placed, so every open matcha tile now sits in row 4. Row 4 must contain exactly one cat, so that cat has to be matcha.
Clear the row of everything else: the soda tiles at row 4, columns 3 and 4, and the mint tile at row 4, column 8. That last cross is the important one, because it leaves mint with a single open tile at row 5, column 8, and the fourth cat goes there. Matcha then settles at row 4, column 6.
From that point the rest of the board resolves without any further crosses. Soda, despite all twenty-nine tiles, is down to one open tile at row 6, column 3. Periwinkle takes row 7, column 9, lilac row 8, column 4, and bubblegum finishes at row 9, column 7. Four crosses, thirteen steps, nine cats.
Tips for boards with one dominant color
Boards like this one appear regularly in Meowdoku, and they can look worse than they are. A region covering a third of the grid gives you almost no information, so the instinct to stare at it is exactly wrong. Instead, treat the giant region as background and read the small colors around its edges.
The other thing this level shows is that a huge region will eventually collapse on its own. Soda never needed a single cross of its own reasoning; seven other cats took its space away until one tile was left. Trusting that process saves a lot of time in these free online games.
- Find the single-tile region first, even if it is buried inside the biggest color.
- A two-tile region in a corner, like rose here, is nearly always a row or column claim.
- A region shaped like a strip of one column, such as matcha, turns into a row claim as rows get eliminated.
- Treat a 29-tile region as empty space and solve everything around it.
- Count your crosses; if a level needs only a handful, every one of them is doing real work.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 87 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 2, column 5 (apricot)
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 2: row 3, column 1 (butter)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open rose tile sits in row 1, so that row's cat must be rose. Cross out the butter tile at row 1, column 3.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the first cat crossed out, the butter region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 3, column 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 3: row 1, column 2 (rose)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 cats placed so far crossed out, 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 4: row 5, column 8 (mint)
First, cross out the tiles that cannot hold a cat:
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the soda tile at row 4, column 3.
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the soda tile at row 4, column 4.
- Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so that row's cat must be matcha. Cross out the mint tile at row 4, column 8.
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the mint region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 5, column 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 4, column 6 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the matcha region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 4, column 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 6, column 3 (soda)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 5 cats placed so far crossed out, the soda region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 6, column 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 7, column 9 (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 9. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 8: row 8, column 4 (lilac)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 7 cats placed so far crossed out, the lilac region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 8, column 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 9: row 9, column 7 (bubblegum)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 8 cats placed so far crossed out, the bubblegum region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 9, column 7. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 87 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 87 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 87?
In solve order, the cats go on row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 3, column 1 (butter); row 1, column 2 (rose); row 5, column 8 (mint); row 4, column 6 (matcha); row 6, column 3 (soda); row 7, column 9 (periwinkle); row 8, column 4 (lilac); and row 9, column 7 (bubblegum).
What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 87?
Put the first cat on row 2, column 5. Apricot is a single-tile region at that spot, even though soda surrounds it on all sides, so the apricot cat is forced there from the very start.
How do I find the mint cat in Meowdoku Level 87?
Every open matcha tile sits in row 4, so the cat in row 4 must be matcha. Cross out the soda tiles at row 4, columns 3 and 4, and the mint tile at row 4, column 8. Mint is then left with one open tile at row 5, column 8.
How do I handle the huge soda region in Meowdoku Level 87?
Ignore it until the end. Soda has twenty-nine tiles, so it can never be the color that runs out of room first. Solve the small colors around its edges and soda will be reduced to a single tile at row 6, column 3 without you ever reasoning about it directly.
Is Meowdoku free to play?
Yes, Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern browser with no installation. Single-tap a tile to mark a cross, double-tap to settle a cat, and take a hint if you want the next forced cat pointed out.
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