Patches · No. 144 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Patches #144 Answer (Aug 8, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #144 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R5C2 (10 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C6–R7C8 (21 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C3–R5C4 (10 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C5–R5C5 (5 cells)
- Patch 5: R6C1–R7C5 (10 cells)
- Patch 6: R8C1–R8C8 (8 cells)
About Patches #144
- Patches #144 splits an 8×8 grid into 6 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 tall, 5 free-form.
- 3 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 6 patches, fewer than the average of 8.6 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 R1C6 and R2C6 can only be reached by the free-form clue with no number at R3C6, so they belong to that patch.
- With R1C6 and R2C6 given to the free-form clue with no number at R3C6, squares R2C1 and R5C1 can only be reached by the free-form 10 clue at R1C1, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 5×2 block from R1C1 to R5C2.