Puzzles/8x8/Museum Fold

Museum Fold, a 8x8 Patches puzzle

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How to play

Fill the grid with rectangles. Each rectangle contains one clue.

Drag to draw a patch. Tap a patch to remove it.

  • Square
  • Wide
  • Tall
  • Any rectangle

A number gives the area. Without a number, work out the size from the surrounding patches.

Keyboard shortcuts

Arrow keys move. Enter starts a rectangle; arrows resize it; Enter places it. Escape cancels. Delete removes a patch. Ctrl/⌘ Z undoes.

Arrow keys move. Enter starts a rectangle; arrows resize it; Enter places it. Escape cancels. Delete removes a patch. Control or Command Z undoes.

About this board

Five 8s, and every one becomes a 4x2 block, but only after you rule out the alternatives. The tall 6 in the bottom row is the single fixed patch. From there it is a careful stacking job, because several 8s could fit more than one way until a wrong choice would leave a neighbour with no room. The left half ends up as four identical drawers stacked on top of each other.

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