Queens
Place queens so that no two share a row, a column, or a colored region.
DleBox's guide
Queens, in LinkedIn's set of daily games, gives you a grid split into colored regions. You place one queen in each region. Two queens cannot share a row or a column, and they cannot touch, including diagonally, under the rule the game enforces. The colors are the extra constraint that a plain n-queens puzzle does not draw on the board. The regions are irregular, so a color can stretch.
The daily board is shared. DleBox does not host the grid and does not place today's queens. The link opens LinkedIn's game. You may need a LinkedIn session there. This directory does not create one. Sudoku fills digits under row, column, and box rules. Queens fills marks under row, column, and region rules. The habits rhyme. The objects do not.
This page will not sketch today's colors. A description of a long region would be a hint we are not giving. Clues by Sam is the logic-grid neighbor if you would rather read sentences than colors. Angle is the neighbor if you would rather type a number.
Rules
- One queen belongs in each colored region.
- Queens do not share a row or a column.
- Queens do not touch, including diagonally.
- One board is the daily puzzle.
- DleBox does not place the queens.
Why we like it
- ✓ The colors are the constraint you can see.
- ✓ A finished board is easy to check.
- ✓ It is a placement puzzle, not a disguised Wordle.
Play Queens when you want a placement puzzle that finishes faster than a hard sudoku and slower than a coin flip. Krillion does not use a colored board. If you came here for a word, Connections and Wordle are the rows that actually hide language.
A region that snakes through three rows is the piece that makes a casual placement fail. The color looks like decoration and functions as a wall. DleBox does not color a sample board. LinkedIn's page has the regions and the queens. You may have to be signed in there. We do not route around that. The directory's job is the rule: one per region, none sharing a line, none touching.
About the game
Queens is published by LinkedIn. DleBox did not make that game. This page names the maker and links over. It does not speak for them.
- Category:
- Logic. Open the Logic category.
- Updates:
- Once a day on the original site.
- Reset:
- This page does not state their timezone. The original game shows the day's puzzle.