Patches · No. 145 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Patches #145 Answer (Aug 9, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #145 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R4C1 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C5–R4C6 (8 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C2–R2C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C4–R3C4 (3 cells)
- Patch 5: R1C3–R3C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 6: R3C2–R4C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R4C3–R4C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 8: R1C8–R4C8 (4 cells)
- Patch 9: R5C1–R8C2 (8 cells)
- Patch 10: R5C3–R6C5 (6 cells)
- Patch 11: R1C7–R6C7 (6 cells)
- Patch 12: R5C6–R7C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 13: R7C3–R7C5 (3 cells)
- Patch 14: R7C7–R8C7 (2 cells)
- Patch 15: R8C3–R8C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 16: R5C8–R8C8 (4 cells)
About Patches #145
- Patches #145 splits an 8×8 grid into 16 patches.
- Clue shapes: 2 tall, 14 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 16 patches, more than the average of 7.4 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 R1C6 can only be reached by the free-form 8 clue at R1C5, so it belongs to that patch.
- Square R2C1 can only be reached by the free-form 4 clue at R1C1, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 4×1 block from R1C1 to R4C1.
- With the patch for the free-form 4 clue at R1C1 fixed, square R1C2 can only be reached by the tall clue with no number at R2C2, so it belongs to that patch.