Patches · No. 143 · Friday edition
LinkedIn Patches #143 Answer (Aug 7, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #143 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C7 (7 cells)
- Patch 2: R2C1–R2C7 (7 cells)
- Patch 3: R3C1–R3C7 (7 cells)
- Patch 4: R4C4–R6C7 (12 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C1–R6C3 (9 cells)
- Patch 6: R7C1–R7C7 (7 cells)
About Patches #143
- Patches #143 splits a 7×7 grid into 6 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 5 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 6 patches, fewer than the average of 8.3 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.
- Squares R1C3 and R1C4 can only be reached by the free-form 7 clue at R1C2, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 1×7 block from R1C1 to R1C7.
- With the patch for the free-form 7 clue at R1C2 fixed, the free-form 7 clue at R2C5 has only one rectangle left, the 1×7 block from R2C1 to R2C7.