Patches · No. 152 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Patches #152 Answer (Aug 16, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #152 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C5–R2C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C2–R2C4 (3 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C7–R3C7 (3 cells)
- Patch 5: R2C1–R3C1 (2 cells)
- Patch 6: R3C2–R5C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 7: R3C4–R3C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 8: R1C8–R4C8 (4 cells)
- Patch 9: R4C1–R6C1 (3 cells)
- Patch 10: R6C2–R6C3 (2 cells)
- Patch 11: R4C4–R6C7 (12 cells)
- Patch 12: R5C8–R6C8 (2 cells)
- Patch 13: R7C1–R7C5 (5 cells)
- Patch 14: R7C6–R7C8 (3 cells)
- Patch 15: R8C1–R8C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 16: R8C5–R8C8 (4 cells)
About Patches #152
- Patches #152 splits an 8×8 grid into 16 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 4 wide, 3 tall, 8 free-form.
- 6 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 16 patches, more than the average of 11.0 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.
- Squares R1C1 and R1C4 can only be reached by the free-form 4 clue at R1C3, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 1×4 block from R1C1 to R1C4.
- With R1C1 and R1C4 given to the free-form 4 clue at R1C3, square R1C5 can only be reached by the square clue with no number at R1C6, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 2×2 block from R1C5 to R2C6.
- Square R1C7 can only be reached by the tall 3 clue at R2C7, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 3×1 block from R1C7 to R3C7.