Patches · No. 181 · Monday edition
LinkedIn Patches #181 Answer (Sep 14, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #181 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R1C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C4–R1C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 3: R2C1–R2C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 4: R2C4–R3C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R3C1–R5C3 (9 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C4–R5C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 7: R6C1–R6C2 (2 cells)
- Patch 8: R6C3–R6C6 (4 cells)
About Patches #181
- Patches #181 splits a 6×6 grid into 8 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 1 wide, 6 free-form.
- 2 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- It has 8 patches, fewer than the average of 8.6 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 free-form rectangle of 4 squares fits inside the grid around the free-form 4 clue at R6C5 without taking in another clue, so its patch must be the 1×4 block from R6C3 to R6C6.
- With the patch for the free-form 4 clue at R6C5 fixed, the free-form 2 clue at R6C2 has only one rectangle left, the 1×2 block from R6C1 to R6C2.