About the Thursday, 22 January 2026 puzzle
This is the hard 6×6 Quilt board published on Thursday, 22 January 2026: a 6×6 grid divided into 14 cages, 1 of which is a single cell that hands you its value outright. Fill every row and column with the numbers 1 to 6 without repeating one, so that each cage reaches its target. It is a KenKen-style math and logic puzzle — the genre also known as calcudoku or mathdoku — and like every Quilt board it is solvable by deduction alone, with no guessing required.
Cage targets
- 48×(4 cells)
- 8+(3 cells)
- 13+(3 cells)
- 180×(4 cells)
- 5−(2 cells)
- 6+(2 cells)
- 30×(3 cells)
- 10+(3 cells)
- 6+(3 cells)
- 9+(2 cells)
- 3(1 cell)
- 2−(2 cells)
- 24×(2 cells)
- 6×(2 cells)
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