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Patches #111 · Monday, July 6, 2026Today's watch-out: the orange patch is 30 cells — if you place the small patches greedily, you can strand it with no room left. Rough out the big patch's territory first.
Solution — patch by patch, in placement order
- Sky Blue — Make a square with four spaces in the top left of the grid.
- Deep Blue — Make a horizontal line with five spaces in Row 1.
- Purple — Make a vertical line with ten spaces in Columns 1 and 2.
- Orange — Make a vertical rectangle in the remaining thirty spaces of the grid.
Progressive Hints for Today's Patches
Reveal these one at a time — each narrows the board without giving the whole tiling away.
Yesterday's Patches
Missed a day? Past puzzles are locked in the app, but the tiling logic never changes — see the solving guide below.
How to Play LinkedIn Patches
LinkedIn Patches is a daily tiling puzzle: drag a set of colored patches onto a grid so that every cell is covered exactly once — no overlaps, no gaps. Each patch is a fixed shape (a line, square or rectangle of cells), and the daily board is built so the full set fits together in exactly one way.
Cover everything
The patches together fill the whole board — every cell gets covered.
No overlaps
Two patches can never share a cell; each shape needs its own space.
Shapes are fixed
Each patch keeps the shape shown in the tray — placement is the puzzle.
One tiling
Every daily board has a single valid arrangement, found by logic.
Patches lives in the LinkedIn Games tab next to Queens, Tango, Zip, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Mini Sudoku and Wend, and it is the suite's first purely spatial puzzle — no letters, no numbers, just shapes and space. Like its siblings it resets at midnight Pacific, keeps a streak, and shows your solve time to your network — the reason a stubborn board sends so many players hunting for the Patches answer before a lunch meeting.
How to Solve Patches Faster
Packing puzzles reward a strict order of operations. Solve LinkedIn Patches with these four habits and most boards go from staring contest to thirty-second cleanup.
1. Start from corners and borders
A patch that fits flush into a corner has exactly one orientation and very few candidate homes. Work the border first: edge cells can only be covered by patches that hug the wall, which prunes the search space dramatically before you touch the middle.
2. Give the biggest patch its territory early
The largest patch is the least flexible — a 12-cell rectangle might have just two or three legal positions on the whole board. Sketch its options before placing anything small. The most common way to lose time in Patches is filling comfortable corners greedily, then discovering the big piece no longer fits anywhere.
3. Measure the corridors
After each placement, look at the empty space that remains. Narrow one-cell corridors can only accept line patches of exactly the right length; an isolated 2×2 pocket demands a square. Matching leftover geometry to remaining shapes is the core deduction loop — the board tells you what it needs.
4. Count cells, not vibes
Every patch covers a known number of cells and the total always equals the board exactly. If the space left in a region can't be written as a sum of your remaining patch sizes, something upstream is wrong — undo early instead of forcing it. This arithmetic check is the fastest wrong-turn detector in the game.
The Puzzle Behind Patches: Polyomino Tiling
Patches is a friendly face on a deep mathematical classic. Shapes made of joined unit squares are called polyominoes — dominoes (2 cells), trominoes (3), tetrominoes (4, famous from Tetris) and up. Asking whether a set of polyominoes can tile a rectangle is a genuinely hard problem in general, which is why hand-built daily boards can range from gentle to devious while always staying fair: the setter guarantees one clean tiling exists.
The field even has a founding figure: mathematician Solomon Golomb, who named polyominoes in the 1950s and whose pentomino problems have filled recreational-math columns ever since. Classic results from that literature echo in the daily game — corner cells are the strongest constraints, long thin pieces are the least flexible, and a tiling that leaves an isolated hole can be rejected without trying a single further piece.
That heritage suggests the right mindset. Tiling puzzles are solved by elimination and bookkeeping, not inspiration — corner constraints, corridor widths and cell counts. The same habits transfer directly to Queens-style region logic, to Zip's path routing, and to any pentomino puzzle you meet outside LinkedIn.
Difficulty by Day — and the Mistakes That Cost Streaks
The weekly rhythm follows the LinkedIn house style. Early-week boards use a few large, friendly pieces whose homes are nearly forced — place the corner shapes and the rest clicks in. Midweek introduces more pieces with genuinely competing positions. Friday and Saturday boards are built to punish greed: several placements look fine locally, and only one keeps the whole tiling alive. Sunday lands in the middle.
That rhythm suggests a schedule for your own solving: sprint on Monday, but on a weekend board spend the first half-minute just reading the tray — count the pieces, find the largest, and note which shapes can only live along a wall. Planning before placing is worth more here than in any other game in the tab.
The mistakes that actually end streaks are remarkably consistent:
- Filling comfortable corners first. The corner was never the problem — the 12-cell rectangle was. Big pieces first, always.
- Leaving a one-cell hole. If no remaining piece is a single cell, that hole is fatal now, not later. Undo immediately instead of "coming back to it".
- Trusting the eye over the count. A region that "looks about right" for a five-cell line is often four or six cells. Count cells before committing — arithmetic never lies, eyes do.
About Today's Answer — and Why You Can Trust It
Most sites publish the daily Patches answer as a screenshot. We publish it as text you can actually use: every patch, in placement order, with its shape, size and location spelled out — readable on any screen, copyable, and accessible. Before publishing, our automation checks that the pieces sum to the full board exactly and that the puzzle number matches today's date; if anything fails validation, the page keeps the last verified solution instead of guessing.
Prefer to earn it? The progressive hints above reveal the patch count, the most constrained piece and the first placement — usually enough to unlock the rest yourself without spoiling the whole tiling. Yesterday's solution stays on the page too, so a missed day never leaves you wondering what the board wanted.
LinkedIn Patches FAQ
What is today's LinkedIn Patches answer?
Reveal the answer box above for today's full solution — every patch in placement order, with its shape and location. We refresh it daily, shortly after the midnight Pacific reset.
What time does Patches reset?
A fresh puzzle drops every day at midnight Pacific Time (3am Eastern, 8am UK), and this page updates shortly after.
How many patches are there each day?
It varies by board — some days four big patches, other days nine or more small ones. They always tile the board exactly.
Can I rotate patches?
Patches keep the orientation shown in the tray. The puzzle is deciding where each shape belongs, not spinning it.
Is there more than one solution?
No — each daily board is constructed around a unique tiling, so pure deduction always gets you there.
Is Patches harder than Queens?
Different skills: Queens is constraint elimination, Patches is spatial packing. Most players find Patches quicker on weekdays, with the occasional weekend board that punishes greedy placements.
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