Meowdoku: Sunny Spots

A calm cat logic puzzle for Android

Give every cat its own sunny spot: one cat in every row, every column and every coloured region, and no two cats touching; some boards add sunny sills and cuddle pairs.

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An 8×8 free-play puzzle with sunbeams: six cats placed and four sunny sills, numbered 2, 1, 1 and 1, each counting the cats in the cells around it.

Meowdoku: Sunny Spots is a logic puzzle game for Android phones by Sonicon Software. Place one cat in every row, column and coloured region of a 5×5 to 10×10 grid, with no two cats touching. Some puzzles add sunny sills or cuddle pairs. Every puzzle has one solution you can reach by logic. No ads, no purchases, no internet.

How to play

Place one cat in every row, every column and every coloured region of the grid. No two cats may touch, not even diagonally, unless a heart pairs their regions. Each puzzle has exactly one solution. Tap a spot once for an X, tap twice or touch and hold for a cat, and undo or redo as often as you like.

The full rules, the window rules, how puzzles are made and the twelve techniques are in How it works.

Window rules

Some puzzles add a window rule. A sunny sill shows a number: the count of cats in the eight cells around it, and no cat sits on a sill. A heart joins two regions whose cats must touch corner to corner. The first time you meet a rule, a short card explains it and the timer waits.

Sleeping cats are already in the right spot and never move; they open the sunbeam and cuddle chapters of the Journey gently. Every rule card stays in How to play, under Window rules.

An 8×8 Medium free-play puzzle with cuddle pairs, mid-solve: a heart on the border of two regions, whose two cats touch corner to corner.

Hints that explain

Stuck? A hint lights the spot that matters and explains the next step in plain words, such as “this row has one spot left”. It does not fill the board in for you: showing a hint changes nothing until you tap Show me, and that applies one step only.

If a cat you placed is wrong, the hint points at it first. Hint text never covers the cells it talks about. Hints explain sill and heart steps the same way.

The Tuesday, November 17 Daily, a 7×7 puzzle with sunbeams, showing a hint: the outlined sill shows 0, so none of the glowing spots around it can hold a cat.

Three ways to play

Journey is an endless run of levels whose difficulty follows how you play, with sunbeams from level 21 and cuddle pairs from 41. Daily is one new puzzle each date, with a streak and a 30-day catch-up calendar. Free play lets you pick the rules, any grid from 5×5 to 10×10 and any of four difficulties.

  • Journey

    Eight warm-up levels, then each new level is set by how you solved the last ones. Classic to level 20, sunbeams from 21, cuddle pairs from 41, then all four kinds in turn. Easier and Harder buttons nudge it.

  • Daily

    One puzzle per date, 6×6 Easy on Monday up to 10×10 Expert on Sunday, with a streak. For dates from November 16, 2026, the weekday also picks the rules.

  • Free play

    Classic, Sunbeams, Cuddles or Mix, at any size from 5×5 to 10×10 and any of Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert.

Relaxed by default

Nothing punishes you. There are no lives and no game over, and a wrong cat is flagged gently. The timer, the mistake counter and the stars can each be hidden. Leave a puzzle whenever you like; it is saved and waits for you just as you left it.

Rewards

Every solve earns XP, itemised by reason, and ranks carry cat titles from Kitten upward. Twenty-one badges mark milestones, four of them for sunbeams and cuddle pairs. Nothing is for sale, and hints and mistakes never take XP away.

After solving an 8×8 Medium cuddle puzzle with one hint: two stars, plus 70 XP, a rank-up to rank 3 with the title Window Watcher, and the new badge First Cuddle.

Made to be read

  • A stained-glass look in light and dark themes.
  • Optional pane patterns, so regions can be told apart without colour.
  • With TalkBack, the cells you play announce their row, column, region and state, with actions to place a cat, mark or clear.
  • Text follows your system font size.
  • Separate switches for sound and vibration.

Privacy in one paragraph

The app has no internet permission, no account, no ads and no analytics. Your progress, statistics and settings stay in the app's private storage on your phone; on Android 12 and later they can move to a new phone you set up from this one. Nothing goes to cloud backup.

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