Patches · No. 168 · Tuesday edition
LinkedIn Patches #168 Answer (Sep 1, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #168 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R2C2 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C3–R2C5 (6 cells)
- Patch 3: R3C1–R4C1 (2 cells)
- Patch 4: R3C2–R4C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 5: R3C3–R3C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C3–R4C4 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R1C6–R4C6 (4 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C1–R6C4 (8 cells)
- Patch 9: R3C5–R6C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 10: R5C6–R6C6 (2 cells)
About Patches #168
- Patches #168 splits a 6×6 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 2 wide, 2 tall, 5 free-form.
- 5 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 10 patches, more than the average of 9.1 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 square rectangle of 4 squares fits inside the grid around the square 4 clue at R2C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 2×2 block from R1C1 to R2C2.
- With the patch for the square 4 clue at R2C1 fixed, the wide 6 clue at R2C3 has only one rectangle left, the 2×3 block from R1C3 to R2C5.
- Only one tall rectangle of 2 squares fits inside the grid around the tall 2 clue at R3C1 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 2×1 block from R3C1 to R4C1.