One cat per row, column and region, and none of them touching

Whiskerdoku is a free browser logic puzzle built on one tidy constraint, with a 300-board Journey and hints that explain themselves.

By Hana Mori, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk

Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.

Whiskerdoku

Whiskerdoku asks for one cat in each row, one in each column and one in each coloured region of the grid, and then adds the condition that does the real work: no two cats may touch, not even at the corners. That last clause is the whole game. Without it you have a simple placement exercise. With it, every cat you put down rules out the ring of squares around itself, and the board starts to argue back. A rule you can say in one breath I like a puzzle whose rules fit in a sentence, and this one does. What interests me is the order in which they teach you things. Rows and columns are familiar...

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