Meowdoku Playbook
About Meowdoku Playbook
Meowdoku Playbook is an independent site about Meowdoku, the cat-themed logic puzzle: somewhere to practise, somewhere to look up why a move is forced, and somewhere the boards get measured rather than guessed at. It is not the game’s publisher and has no commercial relationship with one.
Why this site exists
Meowdoku is a deduction puzzle: place one cat in every row, every column, and every colored region, and never let two cats touch — not even diagonally. Every board has exactly one solution, and that solution is always reachable by elimination. You never have to guess.
That last part is what most help for the game gets wrong. Search a level number and you land in a forty-minute video where someone taps out the answer without saying why any cat had to go where it went. You copy the moves, you clear the level, and you have learned nothing that helps on the next one. This site was built to answer the "why" instead.
What you will find here
- A free browser version
- A full Meowdoku generator that runs on the home page — no download, no account, no payment. Board sizes scale with your screen, and there is a daily puzzle and a campaign.
- Nine long-form articles
- Not the answer to any one level — the deduction underneath all of them. Which eliminations fire first and which cluster at the endgame, why the no-touching rule collapses into a single column gap, what red-green color blindness does to the region palette. Each one measured over hundreds of generated boards rather than asserted.
- A screenshot solver
- Upload a photo of a board and get the solution. Detection and solving both run inside your browser — the image is never uploaded anywhere.
- Rules and strategy
- The rules explained from scratch, plus the techniques that make large boards tractable, in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.
How the guides are made
Every board printed on this site is checked by the build before the page ships. A solved position is stored as data rather than prose, and the build refuses to publish one whose solution breaks any of the three rules — two cats in one region, two in a row or column, or two touching. Walkthroughs are held to something stricter: each step has to be genuinely forced at the point the text claims it is, so a guide cannot quietly hide a guess inside a chain of moves. That does not make the site infallible, but it does mean a page cannot contradict the game’s own logic without the build failing first.
The measurements in the articles come from the same generator that runs on the home page, taken over hundreds of boards per difficulty rather than estimated from a handful. Where a claim rests on a number, the article says how many boards the number came from.
Independence and funding
This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the publishers of Meowdoku. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. The game name is used descriptively, to say what the site is about.
The mobile game is published by Oakever Games and is free on the App Store and Google Play. Those two links are the only place this site points at a store. There used to be a download page whose main purpose was to send people to them; it is gone, because a site whose most prominent destination is somewhere else is not much of a site. What is here instead is the puzzle, the guides, and the measurements.
The site is free to read and carries advertising, which is what pays for it. It is one advert from one network, Monetag: a full-page vignette on the pages you actually play on — the boards, the daily, the campaign and the solver — which you close to carry on. The guides, the articles and these information pages carry nothing at all. Nothing on this site is a paid review or a sponsored placement, and no advertiser has ever seen a guide before you did. The two store links above are the official listings and earn nothing. If the site saves you time, there is also a tip jar. What that advert does to your browser, and the fact that you are not asked first, are both set out in the privacy policy.
Get in touch
Corrections, bug reports, and suggestions all go to the same place: contact@meowdokugame.io. See the contact page for what is most useful to include.