Patches · No. 151 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Patches #151 Answer (Aug 15, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #151 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C3–R6C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C4–R5C4 (5 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C8–R2C8 (2 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C5–R2C7 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R1C1–R5C2 (10 cells)
- Patch 6: R3C5–R7C6 (10 cells)
- Patch 7: R3C7–R5C7 (3 cells)
- Patch 8: R3C8–R8C8 (6 cells)
- Patch 9: R6C1–R7C1 (2 cells)
- Patch 10: R6C2–R7C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 11: R6C4–R7C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 12: R6C7–R7C7 (2 cells)
- Patch 13: R7C3–R8C3 (2 cells)
- Patch 14: R8C1–R8C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 15: R8C4–R8C5 (2 cells)
- Patch 16: R8C6–R8C7 (2 cells)
About Patches #151
- Patches #151 splits an 8×8 grid into 16 patches.
- Clue shapes: 2 wide, 2 tall, 12 free-form.
- 8 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 16 patches, more than the average of 9.6 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.
- Only one tall rectangle fits inside the grid around the tall clue with no number at R1C8 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 2×1 block from R1C8 to R2C8.
- Only one wide rectangle of 2 squares fits inside the grid around the wide 2 clue at R8C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 1×2 block from R8C1 to R8C2.
- Squares R3C1, R4C1, and R4C2 can only be reached by the free-form clue with no number at R3C2, so they belong to that patch.