Patches · No. 173 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Patches #173 Answer (Sep 6, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #173 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 2: R2C1–R4C2 (6 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C7–R3C8 (6 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C3–R4C6 (12 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C7–R5C8 (4 cells)
- Patch 6: R5C1–R5C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 7: R6C5–R8C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 8: R6C1–R8C2 (6 cells)
- Patch 9: R6C7–R8C8 (6 cells)
- Patch 10: R6C3–R8C4 (6 cells)
About Patches #173
- Patches #173 splits an 8×8 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 3 wide, 6 tall.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 10 patches, the same as the average of 10.0 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 tall rectangle of 6 squares fits inside the grid around the tall 6 clue at R8C4 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 3×2 block from R6C3 to R8C4.
- Square R1C4 can only be reached by the wide 6 clue at R1C5, so it belongs to that patch.
- Square R2C1 can only be reached by the tall 6 clue at R2C2, so it belongs to that patch.