About the Thursday, 2 July 2026 puzzle
This is the hard 6×6 Quilt board published on Thursday, 2 July 2026: a 6×6 grid divided into 11 cages, none of them single-cell freebies. 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
- 8+(4 cells)
- 7+(3 cells)
- 5×(2 cells)
- 16+(4 cells)
- 180×(4 cells)
- 16+(4 cells)
- 108×(4 cells)
- 48×(3 cells)
- 10×(2 cells)
- 180×(4 cells)
- 1−(2 cells)
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