Level 88 walkthrough
Meowdoku Level 88 Walkthrough: Butter Wins a Row and Loses Two Tiles
Meowdoku Level 88 is a medium 8x8 board whose second cat costs twelve crosses, and butter ends up losing two of its own row-3 tiles to the apricot region.
Meowdoku Level 88 is a medium 8x8 board with eight colors, and it front-loads all of its difficulty. The first cat is free, the last six arrive without a single cross, and everything hard about the level is squeezed into the twelve crosses needed for cat number two. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that plays in your browser, and as always you need one cat per color region, one per row, one per column, and no two cats touching, corners included.
The most enjoyable part of Level 88 is a small twist. Butter proves that it owns row 3, which normally means you clear every other color out of that row. But then two of butter own tiles in row 3 get crossed out anyway, because they sit next to the apricot region. Winning a row does not mean keeping all of it. This guide covers the layout, the opening, that twelve-cross middle, and the tips worth remembering.
Meowdoku Level 88 at a glance
- Board: 8×8 grid with 8 colored regions and 8 cats to place
- Difficulty: Medium
- Hardest technique needed: Tile touching a whole color
- Logical steps: 20 (8 cats and 12 crosses)
- Smallest color: rose with 1 tile
The Meowdoku Level 88 board layout
The eight colors on this 8x8 grid are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac. Rose is the smallest region with a single tile at row 1, column 2, tucked into the apricot shape that covers most of the first two rows.
Soda is next with five tiles down the right edge, followed by matcha with six tiles in the middle and butter with seven in the top right. Mint has nine tiles on the left, apricot and periwinkle have ten each, and lilac is the largest region at sixteen tiles filling the bottom left and the bottom row.
The shape that matters most in this cat puzzle game is apricot. Ten tiles spread across rows 1 and 2 means that once row 1 is used up, apricot has nowhere to go but row 2, and that single fact starts the entire chain of crosses on the board.
The opening move and why it is forced
Place the first cat on row 1, column 2. Rose is a one-tile region there, so it is settled instantly with no reasoning at all. That is the standard gift at the start of many Meowdoku boards, and it is worth taking before you study anything else.
The cat clears row 1 and column 2, plus the tiles that touch it. Apricot loses all five of its row 1 tiles, and butter loses row 1, columns 7 and 8. Mint loses its column 2 tiles, which is going to matter shortly.
That is the last easy moment for a while. Nothing is down to a single option yet, so Meowdoku Level 88 now asks you to work, and the target is butter.
The key moment: three line claims and two neighbour crosses
Begin with apricot. Every open apricot tile is now in row 2, so row 2 belongs to apricot, and you cross out the matcha tile at row 2, column 4 and the butter tiles at row 2, columns 7 and 8. That is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it is the most common tool in these logic puzzle games.
With butter pushed out of rows 1 and 2, every open butter tile sits in row 3, so row 3 belongs to butter. Cross out the mint tiles at row 3, columns 1 and 3, the matcha tile at row 3, column 4, and the soda tile at row 3, column 8. Mint has now lost so much that every open mint tile is in column 1, which claims that column and removes the lilac tiles at row 6, row 7, and row 8 of column 1.
Butter still has three open tiles in row 3, at columns 5, 6, and 7, so owning the row is not enough by itself. Here comes the twist, technique T4. The tiles at row 3, column 5 and row 3, column 6 each touch every open apricot tile in row 2. Wherever the apricot cat lands, it would be sitting right beside them, so both are impossible even though they are butter tiles in a row that butter owns. Cross them out and butter is left with row 3, column 7, which is your second cat. After that, Meowdoku Level 88 finishes itself. Apricot drops to row 2, column 5, matcha to row 4, column 4, mint to row 5, column 1, soda to row 6, column 8, periwinkle to row 7, column 6, and lilac closes the board at row 8, column 3, with no further crosses needed.
Tips to take from Level 88
The habit this board builds is checking a line claim twice. Proving that butter owns row 3 tells you what to cross out from the other colors, but it does not tell you where the butter cat goes. You still have to test butter own candidates against the no-touching rule, and here two of the three fail.
The second habit is following a cascade all the way down. Apricot claiming row 2 is what lets butter claim row 3, and butter claiming row 3 is what pushes mint into column 1. One observation can travel a long way through these brain games if you keep asking what just changed.
- After claiming a line for a color, check each of that color remaining tiles for neighbour conflicts.
- A color spread across two rows collapses into one row as soon as the other row is used, as apricot does here.
- Follow every claim into the next one; three line claims chain together on this board.
- Tiles beside a wide region like apricot are often dead even when they look safe.
- Twelve crosses in a row is normal on a medium board, so keep going rather than guessing.
Step-by-step Meowdoku Level 88 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 3, column 7 (butter)
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 apricot tile sits in row 2, so that row's cat must be apricot. Cross out the butter tile at row 2, column 8.
- 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 1.
- 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 3.
- 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 4.
- Every open butter tile sits in row 3, so that row's cat must be butter. Cross out the soda tile at row 3, column 8.
- Every open mint tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be mint. Cross out the lilac tile at row 6, column 1.
- Every open mint tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be mint. Cross out the lilac tile at row 7, column 1.
- Every open mint tile sits in column 1, so that column's cat must be mint. Cross out the lilac tile at row 8, column 1.
- The tile at row 3, column 5 touches every open tile left in the apricot region. Wherever the apricot cat lands, it would touch this tile, so cross it out.
- 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 first cat 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 3: row 2, column 5 (apricot)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 2 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 4: row 4, column 4 (matcha)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 3 cats placed so far crossed out, the matcha region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 4, column 4. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 5: row 5, column 1 (mint)
With the rows, columns, and neighbors of the 4 cats placed so far crossed out, the mint region has only one open tile left, so its cat goes on row 5, column 1. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 6: row 6, column 8 (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 8. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 7: row 7, column 6 (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 6. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Cat 8: row 8, column 3 (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 3. Technique: Last open tile in a color.
Meowdoku Level 88 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 88 FAQ
What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 88?
In solve order, the cats go on row 1, column 2 (rose); row 3, column 7 (butter); row 2, column 5 (apricot); row 4, column 4 (matcha); row 5, column 1 (mint); row 6, column 8 (soda); row 7, column 6 (periwinkle); and row 8, column 3 (lilac).
Where does the first cat go in Meowdoku Level 88?
The first cat goes on row 1, column 2, the single rose tile. Every color region must hold exactly one cat, so a one-tile region is always forced and needs no crosses to prove.
How do I find the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 88?
Apricot owns row 2, so cross out the matcha tile at row 2, column 4 and the butter tiles at row 2, columns 7 and 8. Butter then owns row 3, clearing the mint tiles at row 3, columns 1 and 3, the matcha tile at row 3, column 4, and the soda tile at row 3, column 8. Mint is now locked to column 1, removing the lilac tiles at row 6, row 7, and row 8 of column 1. Finally cross out row 3, column 5 and row 3, column 6, because each touches every open apricot tile, leaving butter with row 3, column 7.
Why are butter tiles crossed out in the row butter owns?
Because owning a row only proves the cat in that row is butter, not which butter tile it uses. The tiles at row 3, column 5 and row 3, column 6 both touch every open apricot tile, and two cats may never touch, so neither can hold the butter cat.
Is Meowdoku a free browser puzzle game?
Yes. Meowdoku is free, needs no download, and runs in any modern web browser. Among cat games and animal games it is one of the easiest to pick up, since a single tap marks a cross and a double tap settles a cat.
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