About the Tuesday, 17 February 2026 puzzle
This is the hard 6×6 Quilt board published on Tuesday, 17 February 2026: a 6×6 grid divided into 14 cages, 2 of which are single cells that hand you their values 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
- 40×(4 cells)
- 50×(3 cells)
- 12+(4 cells)
- 15×(2 cells)
- 144×(4 cells)
- 30×(4 cells)
- 10+(2 cells)
- 2−(2 cells)
- 72×(3 cells)
- 12×(2 cells)
- 2(1 cell)
- 9+(2 cells)
- 4+(2 cells)
- 6(1 cell)
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