Roam a tight maze gobbling dots while four hungry cats close in — grab a power pellet to flip the script and chase them down for the big score.
Swipe in any direction (up/down/left/right) to set your move queue — you'll turn at the next intersection that opens that way. Eat every dot to clear the level. The four large pellets in the corners are power pellets — eat one and the cats get scared and run away for a few seconds; touch them to catch them for bonus points. Catch cats in quick succession for a higher multiplier. A cat touching you (when you're not powered) costs a life. Three lives. Clear the board to advance with faster cats.
Power pellets are not for eating the instant cats appear near you — they're for setting up a multi-catch. Lure two or three cats toward a corner pellet before you bite it; you'll get the ×2 ×4 ×8 chain instead of a single +200. The best players hoard pellets for the final cat density of each level.
Intersections decide everything. Cats only re-pick direction at intersections too, so if you have just been past one and they have not, you have a small window of safety. Use that window to take a guaranteed-empty corridor over a dotted-but-risky one.
Don't sprint blindly into the densest dot patch. The reward is constant per dot, but the risk is highest where corridors are short and cats can pincer. Save dense patches for when you're already powered, or when you've routed away the closest cat.
Cat respawn is your timer. When you catch a cat it goes back to its den and re-emerges after a short delay. If the level still has many cats active, catching them frees the board for several seconds — that's your window to grab the dots in the most contested corridors.