Meowdoku Level 91 Guide: Stacked Row Locks on a Medium 8x8

How the Meowdoku Level 91 board is built

The colors here are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, and lilac. Rose is the smallest region on the board with a single tile at row 1, column 4. Mint is a narrow strip of three tiles running down column 1 at rows 3, 4, and 5, while matcha and soda each hold four tiles in the top right and middle right.

Apricot and butter both cover nine tiles across the top two rows, lilac takes eleven tiles along the bottom, and periwinkle is the giant of this cat puzzle game with twenty-three tiles filling the whole middle and lower left. Because periwinkle is so large, it will be one of the later cats rather than an early clue.

The useful pattern to notice up front is horizontal. Apricot, butter, and matcha are all stacked in bands near the top, and soda sits in a band of its own further down. Bands like that are exactly what row locks feed on.

The opening: the lone rose tile at row 1, column 4

Start Meowdoku Level 91 by double-tapping row 1, column 4 to settle the rose cat. The rose region is a single tile, so there is no alternative, and this is technique T1 in its cleanest form: the last open tile in a color.

That one cat clears row 1, column 4, and the tiles around it, which is enough to start the row locks rolling. It is worth pausing to appreciate how much work a one-tile region does in these brain games, because it converts a free placement into a whole cascade of eliminations.

The long middle: four colors claim four rows

With rose placed, every open apricot tile sits in row 2. That means row 2 must hold the apricot cat, so nothing else in row 2 can hold one. Cross out the butter tiles at row 2, column 6, row 2, column 7, and row 2, column 8. This is technique T3, a color locked to one line, and it is the workhorse of Meowdoku Level 91.

Butter is now squeezed into row 3, so that row belongs to butter. Cross the mint tile at row 3, column 1, the periwinkle tiles at row 3, columns 2, 3, and 5, and the matcha tile at row 3, column 8. Matcha in turn is squeezed into row 4, which lets you cross the mint tile at row 4, column 1. Mint started as a three-tile strip in column 1 and now has exactly one open tile at row 5, column 1, so the second cat goes there.

The same engine keeps running. Apricot drops to row 2, column 2 for the third cat. Matcha claiming row 4 clears the periwinkle tiles at row 4, columns 3 and 5, and soda claiming row 6 clears the periwinkle tiles at row 6, columns 3, 5, and 6, which leaves periwinkle a single open tile at row 7, column 3. Column 5 then has just one open tile left, the lilac tile at row 8, column 5, which is technique T2 in action.

The key moment: one neighbor cross unlocks butter

Here is the single hardest deduction in Meowdoku Level 91, and it is the only place on the board that uses technique T4. Look at the tile at row 4, column 6. Every open butter tile that is left touches that tile diagonally or orthogonally. Since two cats can never be neighbors, the butter cat would bump into row 4, column 6 no matter which of its options it chooses, so that tile can never hold a cat at all. Cross it out.

That cross is small but decisive. With row 4, column 6 gone, column 6 has exactly one open tile remaining, the butter tile at row 3, column 6, and the sixth cat settles there. It is a nice illustration of how a T4 cross and a T2 line count work together in these animal puzzle games.

From that point the level finishes itself. Matcha falls to its last open tile at row 4, column 8, and soda falls to row 6, column 7 to complete the board.

Tips for spotting row locks quickly

If Level 91 felt slow, it is almost certainly because the row locks were found one at a time instead of in a chain. The trick is to treat them as a sequence: every lock you apply shrinks another color, which often creates the next lock immediately. On this board that chain runs apricot, then butter, then matcha, then soda.

These habits turn a fifteen-cross grind into a smooth read, and they transfer directly to the harder levels ahead in this collection of free online games.

• After each cat, check whether any color now fits inside a single row or column, and lock that line right away.
• Work the chain in order rather than jumping around, since one lock usually creates the next.
• Count open tiles per line as you go, because a line down to one open tile is a free cat.
• Remember that regions shaped like horizontal bands lock into rows, and tall narrow regions lock into columns.
• When nothing seems forced, test each candidate tile against the question of whether it touches every open tile of some color.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 91?

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

What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 91?

Place the first cat on row 1, column 4. That is the only tile in the rose region, so the rose cat belongs there, and it is the move that starts every other deduction in this cat puzzle game.

How do I place the butter cat in Meowdoku Level 91?

Cross out the tile at row 4, column 6, because it touches every open butter tile and the butter cat would always end up next to it. Column 6 then has only one open tile left, the butter tile at row 3, column 6, so the butter cat goes there.

Why does the second cat in Meowdoku Level 91 take so long?

The mint cat at row 5, column 1 needs nine crosses first. Apricot claims row 2, butter claims row 3, and matcha claims row 4, and only after all those row locks does mint shrink to its last open tile. That chain is what earns this level its medium rating among Meowdoku logic puzzle games.

Is Meowdoku free to play in a browser?

Yes, Meowdoku is completely free and runs in any modern browser, so you can play these cat games and animal games without an account. Single-tap a tile to mark a cross and double-tap to settle a cat.