Meowdoku Level 93 Walkthrough: Ten Colors, Only Four Crosses

Touring the Meowdoku Level 93 board

The ten colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, periwinkle, lilac, bubblegum, and latte. Rose and apricot are tied as the smallest regions on the board, each a single tile: rose at row 1, column 1 and apricot at row 2, column 6. Butter and matcha are only two tiles each, stacked vertically at column 9 rows 2 and 3 and at column 3 rows 3 and 4.

The larger colors fill everything else. Bubblegum has nine tiles, periwinkle eleven, soda twelve, mint seventeen, latte twenty-one, and lilac is the giant with twenty-four tiles covering the left side from top to bottom. In cat games with ten colors, this mix of tiny and huge regions is ideal, because the tiny ones give you the free placements that shrink the huge ones.

Periwinkle deserves a mention because it forms a compact block in the middle of the grid at rows 4 through 7, columns 5 through 7. Compact blocks tend to become the last cats placed, and that is exactly what happens here.

The opening: rose in the top left corner

Put your first cat on row 1, column 1. The rose region is that single corner tile, so the rose cat cannot go anywhere else. This is technique T1, the last open tile in a color, and on this board it also happens to be the very first move available.

The corner placement clears row 1, column 1, and the three neighbors around it. Apricot is already a one-tile region at row 2, column 6, so the second cat goes there next, and the chain starts to build momentum in this cat puzzle game.

Six cats in a row with no crosses at all

From the apricot cat onward, Meowdoku Level 93 rewards nothing more than careful looking. Butter collapses to its last open tile at row 3, column 9. Matcha collapses to row 4, column 3. Mint, with seventeen tiles, is squeezed by the earlier cats down to row 5, column 8. Soda then falls to row 6, column 10.

That is six cats placed on a ten by ten board without a single cross. It happens because each placement wipes out a full row, a full column, and a ring of neighbors, and with ten colors on the grid there is always another region about to run out of room.

The lesson is simple and it applies across these brain games: on a large board, resist the urge to start crossing tiles out. Re-scan for a color that has already shrunk to one tile first, because that costs no effort and often keeps the chain alive several moves longer than you expect.

The key moment: the bubblegum cat in column 4

Eventually the chain does pause, and this is where Meowdoku Level 93 asks for real reasoning. Every open periwinkle tile now sits in row 7, so row 7 belongs to periwinkle. That lets you cross the lilac tile at row 7, column 2, which immediately gives lilac its last open tile at row 8, column 2 and your seventh cat.

The same periwinkle row lock also clears the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 4. Bubblegum is now confined to row 9, which means row 9 belongs to bubblegum and the latte tile at row 9, column 7 can be crossed out too.

The final cross is the interesting one and the only use of technique T4 here. The tile at row 10, column 4 touches every open bubblegum tile that is left, so the bubblegum cat would always end up next to it, and a cat can never touch another cat. Cross it out. Column 4 now has exactly one open tile, the bubblegum tile at row 9, column 4, which is technique T2. After that cat, latte falls to row 10, column 7 and periwinkle closes the board at row 7, column 5.

Tips for solving ten by ten Meowdoku boards

A ten by ten grid looks intimidating, but it is often easier than an eight by eight, because more colors means more small regions and more forced placements. Level 93 proves the point with fourteen total steps, which is fewer than many medium seven by seven boards demand.

Keep these ideas in mind the next time one of these big free online games appears in the level list.

• Find every one-tile and two-tile color before your first move and place those cats first.
• Rescan the small colors after each placement, since the chain usually continues for several cats at once.
• Only start crossing tiles when no color has a single open tile left.
• Watch for a color that has been pushed into one row or column, then clear every other color out of that line.
• Ask which tiles touch all remaining options of a shrinking color, because those tiles are always safe to cross.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 93?

In solve order the cats go on row 1, column 1 (rose); row 2, column 6 (apricot); row 3, column 9 (butter); row 4, column 3 (matcha); row 5, column 8 (mint); row 6, column 10 (soda); row 8, column 2 (lilac); row 9, column 4 (bubblegum); row 10, column 7 (latte); and row 7, column 5 (periwinkle).

What is the first move in Meowdoku Level 93?

Place the first cat on row 1, column 1, the single tile that forms the rose region. A one-tile color leaves no choice at all, which makes it the natural opening of this cat puzzle game.

How do I find the bubblegum cat in Meowdoku Level 93?

Use the periwinkle row lock in row 7 to cross the bubblegum tile at row 7, column 4, then the bubblegum row lock in row 9 to cross the latte tile at row 9, column 7. Finally cross row 10, column 4 because it touches every open bubblegum tile. Column 4 then has one open tile left, at row 9, column 4.

Is Meowdoku Level 93 hard because the board is ten by ten?

No, Level 93 is rated easy despite being one of the largest boards. It takes fourteen steps and only four crosses, because two colors are single tiles and nine of the ten cats come from a color running out of open tiles. Big boards in these animal games are often gentler than small ones.

How do the controls work in Meowdoku?

Single-tap a tile to toggle a cross and double-tap a tile to settle a cat. A wrong cat costs one fish, and a hint will show you the next forced cat. Meowdoku is free and plays in the browser, which makes it easy to pick up these cat games any time.