Patches · No. 185 · Friday edition
LinkedIn Patches #185 Answer (Sep 18, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #185 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R2C3 (6 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C4–R2C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R3C1–R3C4 (4 cells)
- Patch 4: R3C5–R4C5 (2 cells)
- Patch 5: R4C1–R5C4 (8 cells)
- Patch 6: R1C6–R7C7 (14 cells)
- Patch 7: R6C1–R7C4 (8 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C5–R7C5 (3 cells)
About Patches #185
- Patches #185 splits a 7×7 grid into 8 patches.
- Clue shapes: 8 free-form.
- 4 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 8 patches, fewer than the average of 9.3 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 R1C1 and R1C3 can only be reached by the free-form clue with no number at R2C3, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 2×3 block from R1C1 to R2C3.
- Square R1C4 can only be reached by the free-form 4 clue at R2C4, so it belongs to that patch.