Patches · No. 154 · Tuesday edition
LinkedIn Patches #154 Answer (Aug 18, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #154 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C4–R1C5 (2 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C3–R4C4 (6 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C1–R3C2 (4 cells)
- Patch 5: R1C6–R4C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C1–R6C2 (6 cells)
- Patch 7: R2C5–R4C5 (3 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C3–R5C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 9: R6C3–R6C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 10: R6C5–R6C6 (2 cells)
About Patches #154
- Patches #154 splits a 6×6 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 2 wide, 1 tall, 6 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 10 patches, fewer 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.
- Only one wide rectangle of 3 squares fits inside the grid around the wide 3 clue at R1C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 1×3 block from R1C1 to R1C3.
- With the patch for the wide 3 clue at R1C1 fixed, the free-form 2 clue at R1C4 has only one rectangle left, the 1×2 block from R1C4 to R1C5.
- Only one free-form rectangle of 6 squares fits inside the grid around the free-form 6 clue at R4C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 3×2 block from R4C1 to R6C2.