Patches · No. 126 · Tuesday edition
LinkedIn Patches #126 Answer (Jul 21, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #126 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R2C2 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R3C1–R3C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C3–R3C4 (6 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C5–R3C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C1–R7C1 (4 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C3–R4C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R4C5–R4C6 (2 cells)
- Patch 8: R1C7–R4C7 (4 cells)
- Patch 9: R4C2–R7C2 (4 cells)
- Patch 10: R5C3–R7C5 (9 cells)
- Patch 11: R5C6–R5C7 (2 cells)
- Patch 12: R6C6–R7C7 (4 cells)
About Patches #126
- Patches #126 splits a 7×7 grid into 12 patches.
- Clue shapes: 3 square, 4 wide, 5 tall.
- 6 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 12 patches, more than the average of 10.0 across the previous 2 puzzles.
- Each patch is one rectangle holding exactly one clue, with the clue's shape and, where a number is shown, exactly that many squares.
- Only one wide rectangle of 2 squares fits inside the grid around the wide 2 clue at R3C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 1×2 block from R3C1 to R3C2.
- Only one tall rectangle of 6 squares fits inside the grid around the tall 6 clue at R3C3 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 3×2 block from R1C3 to R3C4.
- With the patch for the tall 6 clue at R3C3 fixed, the square 4 clue at R2C2 has only one rectangle left, the 2×2 block from R1C1 to R2C2.