Meowdoku Level 94 Walkthrough: When Apricot and Butter Book Two Rows

The Meowdoku Level 94 layout

The seven colors are rose, apricot, butter, matcha, mint, soda, and periwinkle. Matcha is the smallest region on the board, a lone tile at row 4, column 3 that is completely surrounded by periwinkle. Rose is two tiles at row 1, columns 2 and 3, and soda is two tiles at row 6, columns 6 and 7.

Butter holds six tiles wrapped around the top left corner, apricot holds seven across the top right, mint holds eleven through the middle, and periwinkle is the giant of this cat puzzle game with twenty tiles filling the entire bottom left and all of row 7. When one color covers twenty of forty-nine tiles, you can usually leave it until last.

The important structural detail is that butter and apricot both hang around rows 1, 2, and 3, and rose sits in row 1 as well. Three colors crowding three rows is the setup for the deduction that decides this level.

The opening: the lone matcha tile

Your first cat in Meowdoku Level 94 goes on row 4, column 3, because matcha is a single tile and the matcha cat has nowhere else to live. Technique T1, the last open tile in a color, makes this the only possible first move on the board.

That cat clears row 4, column 3, and everything touching it, which crosses out the rose tile at row 1, column 3 by way of the column. Rose now has one open tile at row 1, column 2, so the second cat settles there. Two cats down, and the board still looks wide open, which is exactly when these brain games get interesting.

Squeezing soda and apricot with neighbor crosses

Before the reservation trick becomes visible, you need to clear some space, and most of that work comes from technique T4, the tile that touches every open tile of a color. Soda is only two tiles, at row 6, columns 6 and 7, and that makes it very easy to work with. The tiles at row 5, column 6, row 5, column 7, row 7, column 6, and row 7, column 7 each touch both open soda tiles, so the soda cat would bump into every one of them. All four can be crossed out.

Apricot gets the same treatment at row 3, column 6, which touches every open apricot tile and is therefore crossed out as well. Meanwhile soda is confined to row 6, so row 6 belongs to soda and the periwinkle tiles at row 6, columns 1, 4, and 5 come off the board. Mint is confined to column 5, which clears the periwinkle tile at row 7, column 5.

Ten crosses in, and the middle of the board has thinned out dramatically. In cat games this dense, it helps to remember that a two-tile region is a gift rather than a burden, because every tile adjacent to both of its options is instantly eliminated.

The key moment: apricot and butter reserve rows 2 and 3

Here is the hardest deduction in Meowdoku Level 94, and it is technique T5, matched colors and lines. After all the crosses above, the apricot region and the butter region can each only place their cat somewhere in row 2 or row 3. There are two colors and exactly two rows available to them.

Think about what that means. Apricot needs one of those rows and butter needs the other, in some order. Between them they use up both rows completely, so no third color can put a cat in row 2 or row 3 at all. That lets you cross out the mint tile at row 2, column 5 and the mint tile at row 3, column 5, even though you still have no idea which row apricot takes.

Those two crosses are the whole ballgame. Mint is now reduced to a single open tile at row 5, column 5, and the third cat goes there. After that, soda drops to row 6, column 7, apricot to row 2, column 6, butter to row 3, column 1, and periwinkle finishes the board at row 7, column 4. A deduction that never identified which row belonged to which color still delivered five cats.

Carrying the reservation idea into later levels

The two-row reservation on this board is the same idea that experienced players use on nine by nine and ten by ten grids, where it can free up a dozen tiles at once. The pattern to look for is a set of colors whose options all live inside the same number of lines: two colors in two rows, three colors in three columns, and so on.

A few practical pointers will help you find these patterns without hunting blindly, whether you are playing Meowdoku or other animal games built on similar rules.

• Track which rows each small color can still reach, since reservations almost always involve the smaller regions.
• When two colors share exactly two lines, clear every other color out of both lines immediately.
• Use two-tile regions to generate neighbor crosses first, because they shrink the board fastest.
• Do not wait to learn which color takes which line; the reservation works without that answer.
• If the pattern will not come into focus, a hint reveals the next forced cat so you keep your fish.

What is the solution to Meowdoku Level 94?

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

Where do I place the first cat in Meowdoku Level 94?

The first cat goes on row 4, column 3. Matcha is a single-tile region on this board, so the matcha cat must live there, and it is the only forced move available at the start of this cat puzzle game.

How does the mint cat get forced in Meowdoku Level 94?

The apricot and butter regions can only place their cats in rows 2 and 3, so those two rows are reserved for those two colors. That lets you cross out the mint tiles at row 2, column 5 and row 3, column 5, which leaves mint with one open tile at row 5, column 5.

Why do so many tiles get crossed out around the soda region?

Soda is only two tiles, at row 6, columns 6 and 7. The tiles at row 5, column 6, row 5, column 7, row 7, column 6, and row 7, column 7 each touch both of them, so the soda cat would always be their neighbor. Cats never touch, so all four are crossed out. It is the fastest elimination pattern in these logic puzzle games.

Is Meowdoku free to play online?

Yes. Meowdoku is a free cat puzzle game that runs in any modern web browser, so Level 94 and every other level are available instantly. It is a good pick if you enjoy brain games and free online games that reward logic rather than luck.