Meowdoku: Sunny Spots questions

What is Meowdoku: Sunny Spots?

Meowdoku: Sunny Spots is a logic puzzle game for Android phones by Sonicon Software. You place one cat in every row, every column and every coloured region of a grid from 5×5 to 10×10, with no two cats touching, and some puzzles add sunny sills or cuddle pairs. It has no ads, no purchases and no internet access.

What are the rules?

Place one cat in every row, one in every column and one in every coloured region. No two cats may touch, not even diagonally. Some puzzles add a window rule: a sunny sill's number counts the cats around it, and a heart makes two regions' cats touch at a corner. Every puzzle has exactly one solution.

The rules in more detail, with the taps, gestures and X marks, which never count against you.

Can two cats touch diagonally?

No, with one exception. Two cats may not sit side by side or corner to corner, so each cat rules out the eight cells around it. The exception is a cuddle pair: where a heart joins two regions, their two cats must touch corner to corner. Two cats on the same diagonal that are not neighbours are fine.

Is it the same puzzle as Star Battle?

Yes, in its one-star form. Star Battle asks for one star in every row, column and region, with no two stars touching, and many players know the same rules as the Queens puzzle. Classic puzzles here follow those rules with cats, on grids from 5×5 to 10×10; sunbeam and cuddle puzzles add rules of their own.

Do I ever have to guess?

No. A puzzle is kept only when the app's solver finds exactly one solution and its deduction engine finishes it with twelve techniques. The hardest, needed only for Expert, is a one-step “what if”: suppose a cat in a cell; if a row, column or region runs out of room, or a sill or heart fails, the cell is out.

See the twelve techniques, the window rules and how a puzzle is made.

How do hints work?

A hint points at the next step and says why it works, for example that a row has one spot left. Showing a hint changes nothing; tap Show me to apply that one step. If a cat you placed is wrong, the hint points at it first. Hints lower that puzzle's stars but never take XP away.

How is difficulty chosen?

Each puzzle is graded Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert by the hardest technique the engine needed to solve it. In the Journey, eight warm-up levels lead into a skill score that sets each new level from your time against par, mistakes and hints, moving one step at most. Easier and Harder buttons nudge it.

More in difficulty and the Journey.

How does the Daily puzzle work?

There is one Daily puzzle for each date, built on your phone: 6×6 Easy on Monday, rising to 10×10 Expert on Sunday. From November 16, 2026, the weekday also sets the rules: sunbeams, cuddle pairs or both on five days. Solve it on its day to grow your streak; late solves from the last 30 days do not count.

The full week: Monday 6×6 Easy classic, Tuesday 7×7 Medium sunbeams, Wednesday 7×7 Hard cuddles, Thursday 8×8 Medium classic, Friday 8×8 Hard sunbeams, Saturday 9×9 Hard cuddles, Sunday 10×10 Expert with both. Dates before November 16, 2026 are classic. An app update that changes the puzzle generator or its rules also changes future Daily puzzles.

Are there ads, purchases or lives?

No ads, no in-app purchases, no lives and no game over. A wrong cat is flagged and you carry on. The timer, the mistake counter and the stars are displays you can hide in Settings. Leave a puzzle at any time and it is saved just as you left it.

Hiding the timer hides the display only; your times still count toward your fastest times and the Journey’s difficulty. Gentle levels with sleeping cats set no time.

Can I play with colour blindness or TalkBack?

Yes. Region borders are heavier than cell lines, and optional pane patterns give every region its own texture, so regions can be told apart without colour. With TalkBack, the cells you play announce their row, column, region and state, and offer actions to place a cat, mark or clear. Text follows your system font size.

What happens to my progress on a new phone, or if I uninstall?

Progress, statistics and settings live in one file in the app's private storage. Nothing goes to cloud backup. On Android 12 and later, setting up a new phone from your old one by cable or local Wi-Fi can bring that file across. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data erases it.

Does the app collect any data?

No. The app has no internet permission, no account, and no ads, analytics or tracking code, so it cannot send anything from your phone to us or to anyone else. Your progress and settings stay in the app's private storage, apart from a direct transfer to a new phone. Read the full privacy policy.