Patches · No. 194 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Patches #194 Answer (Sep 27, 2026)
Hint: Place the large numbered patches first — they have the fewest ways to fit.
Show Patches #194 answer as text
- Patch 1: R1C1–R2C2 (4 cells)
- Patch 2: R1C6–R1C7 (2 cells)
- Patch 3: R1C3–R2C5 (6 cells)
- Patch 4: R1C8–R6C8 (6 cells)
- Patch 5: R3C1–R3C3 (3 cells)
- Patch 6: R2C6–R4C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 7: R3C4–R4C5 (4 cells)
- Patch 8: R5C4–R5C6 (3 cells)
- Patch 9: R4C3–R7C3 (4 cells)
- Patch 10: R2C7–R6C7 (5 cells)
- Patch 11: R4C1–R7C2 (8 cells)
- Patch 12: R6C4–R7C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 13: R8C1–R8C6 (6 cells)
- Patch 14: R7C7–R8C8 (4 cells)
About Patches #194
- Patches #194 splits an 8×8 grid into 14 patches.
- Clue shapes: 1 square, 1 wide, 2 tall, 10 free-form.
- 4 clues show no size, so those patches can be any area.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 14 patches, more than the average of 8.4 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.
- Square R4C5 can only be reached by the square 4 clue at R4C4, so it belongs to that patch, and the only rectangle for that clue that includes it is the 2×2 block from R3C4 to R4C5.
- With the patch for the square 4 clue at R4C4 fixed, square R4C3 can only be reached by the tall 4 clue at R6C3, so it belongs to that patch.
- Square R4C6 can only be reached by the tall 3 clue at R3C6, so it belongs to that patch.