Patrol Grid
A daily place-the-units logic puzzle: one patrol unit in every row, every column and every district, and no two units touching.
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Tap once for X, twice for a unit. Drag to mark a run of Xs.
Clear the grid to file your time.
Next grid at midnight UTC.
How everyone did today appears here once 20 players have finished.
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Today's card shows the empty district map, your time band, streak and the days to launch; a card for an earlier day shows that day's units. Never today's answer.
7×7 on weekdays, 8×8 at the weekend, a 5×5 rookie grid, one hint, a streak, personal bests and a spoiler-free result to share. A fan puzzle; nothing here is from the game.
How to play
The grid is split into coloured districts, one per row of the grid. Put exactly one patrol unit in every row, every column and every district, and never let two units touch, not even corner to corner. Tap once for an X, twice for a unit, three times to clear; drag to mark a run of Xs; Undo and Clear are there when you need them. Units that break a rule get a red outline at once, and that check only ever looks at the rules, never at the answer. Every grid is checked when the site is built to have one answer that deduction alone reaches, so you never have to guess.
Tip one: a district that fits inside one row owns that row. If every cell of a district sits in a single row, the district's unit has to be in that row, so the rest of the row, in other districts, can be marked X straight away. The same holds for a district that fits in one column. Small districts are where to start. Tip two: count districts against rows. If two districts together only touch two rows, their two units use up both rows, so every other district's cells in those rows are X. And because units never touch, a unit anywhere rules out the eight cells around it, which often leaves a neighbouring district with a single cell left; switch on Auto-X and the grid marks those for you.
Everyone gets the same grid on the same UTC day: 7×7 on weekdays, 8×8 at the weekend, and newcomers can switch on the 5×5 rookie grid, which still counts. One hint a day places a correct unit and marks the result as assisted. When the last unit is in, the districts light up one by one and dispatch signs off with your time. The archive lets you play any earlier day's grid and practice grids come from a spare pool; both are marked and never count. Patrol Grid is a fan puzzle with made-up district names; nothing here is a map, a location or an asset from GTA 6, and nothing is presented as official. For a deduction puzzle with suspects try Alibi; for an ordering puzzle, the Incident Report.
Questions
What are the rules?
Place exactly one patrol unit in every row, every column and every coloured district, and never let two units touch, not even at a corner. Tap a cell once to mark it X (no unit here), twice to place a unit, a third time to clear it. Drag across cells to mark a run of Xs. Every grid here has one answer that logic alone reaches; you never have to guess.
What do the highlights mean?
A red outline marks units that break a rule right now: two in one row, column or district, or two touching. It only ever checks the units you have placed against the rules, never against the answer, so it will not give the solution away.
What is Auto-X?
A setting (remembered on this device) that marks every cell a placed unit rules out: the rest of its row, column and district and the eight cells around it. Undo takes the unit and its auto marks back together.
What is the rookie grid?
A 5×5 grid for newcomers, switched on with the Rookie toggle (remembered on this device). It counts as the day's solve; the 7×7 weekday and 8×8 weekend grids are what the best times and the Clean Sweep card are about.
Is any of this from GTA 6?
No. Patrol Grid is a fan logic puzzle with made-up district names (Docks, Strip, Swamp Road and friends). Nothing here is a location, a map or an asset from the game, and nothing is presented as official.
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