Meowdoku Level 118 Help

What to Focus on for Level 118

This part of Meowdoku usually tests forcing moves by contradiction. Before placing a cat, scan every colored region and identify the smallest one. Then check whether any of its cells would block a neighboring row through diagonal adjacency.

Do not guess from the center first unless a color region forces it.

A Reliable Solving Pattern

1. 1. Find the smallest or most awkward colored region.
2. 2. Remove cells that would touch another forced cat candidate.
3. 3. Check whether a row or column has only one legal color left.
4. 4. Repeat until every row, column, and color has one cat.

Level 118 Tip

Scan columns after each row decision

Because each column gets exactly one cat, a row placement is also a column placement. After you narrow a row to one or two candidates, check whether either column is already claimed by another forced region.