Patches · No. 128 · Thursday edition
LinkedIn Patches #128 Answer (Jul 23, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #128 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C3–R1C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C2–R2C4 (3 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C5–R4C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R3C2–R3C3 (2 cells)
- Patch 6: R3C4–R5C4 (3 cells)
- Patch 7: R2C1–R6C1 (5 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C5–R5C6 (2 cells)
- Patch 9: R4C2–R6C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 10: R6C4–R6C6 (3 cells)
About Patches #128
- Patches #128 splits a 6×6 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 wide, 3 tall, 6 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 10 patches, the same as the average of 10.0 across the previous 4 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 tall rectangle of 5 squares fits inside the grid around the tall 5 clue at R5C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 5×1 block from R2C1 to R6C1.
- With the patch for the tall 5 clue at R5C1 fixed, the free-form 2 clue at R1C1 has only one rectangle left, the 1×2 block from R1C1 to R1C2.
- Square R1C3 can only be reached by the wide clue with no number at R1C4, so it belongs to that patch.