Patches · No. 193 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Patches #193 Answer (Sep 26, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #193 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C6–R3C8 (9 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C4–R2C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C1–R3C3 (9 cells)
- Patch 4: R3C4–R4C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 5: R5C4–R6C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 6: R4C6–R6C8 (9 cells)
- Patch 7: R7C4–R8C8 (10 cells)
- Patch 8: R4C1–R8C3 (15 cells)
About Patches #193
- Patches #193 splits an 8×8 grid into 8 patches.
- Clue shapes: 6 square, 2 free-form.
- 8 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 8 patches, fewer than the average of 9.6 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.
- Squares R1C1 and R2C1 can only be reached by the square clue with no number at R3C1, so they belong to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes them is the 3×3 block from R1C1 to R3C3.
- Squares R1C4 and R1C5 can only be reached by the square clue with no number at R2C4, so they belong to that patch.
- With the patch for the square clue with no number at R3C1 fixed and R1C4 and R1C5 given to the square clue with no number at R2C4, the square clue with no number at R2C4 has only one rectangle left, the 2×2 block from R1C4 to R2C5.