Patches · No. 150 · Friday edition
LinkedIn Patches #150 Answer (Aug 14, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #150 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C5–R1C7 (3 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C1–R3C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C4–R3C7 (8 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C1–R4C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C5–R5C7 (6 cells)
- Patch 7: R5C1–R5C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 8: R6C4–R6C7 (4 cells)
- Patch 9: R6C1–R7C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 10: R7C4–R7C7 (4 cells)
About Patches #150
- Patches #150 splits a 7×7 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 10 wide.
- 6 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 10 patches, more than the average of 9.0 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.
- Square R1C7 can only be reached by the wide 3 clue at R1C6, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 1×3 block from R1C5 to R1C7.
- Squares R2C1 and R2C2 can only be reached by the wide 6 clue at R2C3, so they belong to that patch.
- With R1C7 given to the wide 3 clue at R1C6, R2C1 and R2C2 given to the wide 6 clue at R2C3, and the patch for the wide 3 clue at R1C6 fixed, squares R1C2, R1C3, and R1C4 can only be reached by the wide clue with no number at R1C1, so they belong to that patch.