Patches · No. 131 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Patches #131 Answer (Jul 26, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #131 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C3–R1C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C7–R2C8 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C1–R2C1 (2 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C3–R3C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 5: R2C5–R4C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 6: R3C7–R3C8 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R3C1–R8C1 (6 cells)
- Patch 8: R4C3–R4C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 9: R5C6–R6C6 (2 cells)
- Patch 10: R4C7–R6C8 (6 cells)
- Patch 11: R1C2–R6C2 (6 cells)
- Patch 12: R5C3–R6C5 (6 cells)
- Patch 13: R7C6–R8C6 (2 cells)
- Patch 14: R7C7–R8C8 (4 cells)
- Patch 15: R7C2–R8C3 (4 cells)
- Patch 16: R7C4–R8C5 (4 cells)
About Patches #131
- Patches #131 splits an 8×8 grid into 16 patches.
- Clue shapes: 2 wide, 2 tall, 12 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 16 patches, more than the average of 9.7 across the previous 7 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.
- Square R1C1 can only be reached by the free-form 2 clue at R2C1, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 2×1 block from R1C1 to R2C1.
- Square R2C7 can only be reached by the free-form 4 clue at R1C7, so it belongs to that patch.
- With R1C1 given to the free-form 2 clue at R2C1, square R3C1 can only be reached by the free-form 6 clue at R4C1, so it belongs to that patch.