Patches · No. 147 · Tuesday edition
LinkedIn Patches #147 Answer (Aug 11, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #147 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R5C1 (5 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C2–R1C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C6–R3C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C2–R3C5 (8 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C2–R5C6 (10 cells)
- Patch 6: R6C1–R6C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R6C3–R6C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 8: R6C5–R6C6 (2 cells)
About Patches #147
- Patches #147 splits a 6×6 grid into 8 patches.
- Clue shapes: 3 wide, 5 free-form.
- 3 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 8 patches, the same as the average of 8.0 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.
- Only one free-form rectangle of 5 squares fits inside the grid around the free-form 5 clue at R1C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 5×1 block from R1C1 to R5C1.
- Only one free-form rectangle of 3 squares fits inside the grid around the free-form 3 clue at R1C6 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 3×1 block from R1C6 to R3C6.