Logic puzzle · Place the queensQueens,
Queens,
one per zone.
One queen per row, column, and color.
- Queens
- 0/6
- Time
- 0:00
- Moves
- 0
- Hints
- 0
Tap to cycle · Empty → X → Queen
About the gameHow Queens works,
How Queens works,
in short.
- Step 01
Coloured zones on a checkerboard.
Every game ships a 5×5 (or bigger) grid carved into one coloured zone per row count. You'll place exactly one queen in each.
- Step 02
Tap to cycle: blank → ✕ → queen.
Tap a cell to mark a guess with ✕, tap again for a queen, again to clear. Placing a queen auto-Xs the rest of its row.
- Step 03
One per row, column, zone — no diagonals.
Every row, every column, and every coloured zone must hold exactly one queen — and no two queens may sit diagonally adjacent.
Questions
Queens questions, answered.
Queens is a constraint satisfaction puzzle inspired by the LinkedIn daily Queens game. You place queens on a colored grid so each row, each column, and each color region contains exactly one queen — and no two queens touch, not even diagonally.
Click or tap a cell to cycle its state — empty, X (cannot be a queen), queen, then empty again. Use X marks to track ruled-out cells and queens to mark final placements. Every puzzle has a single unique solution that you can reach through pure logic.
There are four rules. One queen per row. One queen per column. One queen per color region. Queens cannot be adjacent — not horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Find a placement that satisfies all four at once.
It's related but stricter. In classic N-Queens, queens can attack along entire rows, columns, and diagonals. Queens here only blocks adjacent cells (one step in any direction), and it adds the color-region constraint, which is what makes each puzzle uniquely solvable.
Easy is 5x5 with five color regions, Medium is 6x6, Hard is 8x8, and Expert is 9x9. Larger boards have more regions and more constraints, so they take more deduction to crack.
Start with the most constrained rows, columns, or regions — anywhere a queen has only one or two possible cells. Use X marks aggressively to rule out cells around your placed queens and within rows or columns already covered. Work through implications step by step instead of guessing.
Yes. Arrow keys move the selected cell. Space cycles the cell state, Enter toggles a queen directly, and X toggles an X mark directly. Keyboard play is often faster than clicking once you get used to it.
Yes. The board is touch-friendly with large tap targets, and the cycle-through behavior means you only need single taps to place X marks and queens.
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