Patches · No. 179 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Patches #179 Answer (Sep 12, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #179 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R3C1 (3 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C2–R1C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C3–R4C5 (9 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C6–R3C7 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R2C2–R4C2 (3 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C6–R4C7 (2 cells)
- Patch 7: R4C1–R6C1 (3 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C2–R6C7 (12 cells)
- Patch 9: R7C1–R7C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 10: R7C4–R7C7 (4 cells)
About Patches #179
- Patches #179 splits a 7×7 grid into 10 patches.
- Clue shapes: 2 wide, 2 tall, 6 free-form.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 10 patches, more than the average of 8.3 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 R2C1 and R3C1 can only be reached by the free-form 3 clue at R1C1, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 3×1 block from R1C1 to R3C1.
- Squares R2C6 and R3C7 can only be reached by the tall 6 clue at R2C7, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 3×2 block from R1C6 to R3C7.
- With the patch for the tall 6 clue at R2C7 fixed, the wide 4 clue at R1C5 has only one rectangle left, the 1×4 block from R1C2 to R1C5.