How to solve Queens
One crown per row, column and region, none touching.
Have you ever finished the daily Queens puzzle and wished you could play just one more round? Now you can. Queens — the crown-placement logic puzzle made popular by LinkedIn's daily games — is playable here in unlimited quantity: free boards generated on demand, from easy 6×6 grids to hard 9×9 ones, each with exactly one solution.
How to play Queens
- Place exactly one crown 👑 in each row, each column and each color region.
- Two crowns can never touch, not even diagonally.
- Tap a cell to place an ✕ (note), tap again for a crown, a third time to clear.
- Drag to mark several ✕ at once.
How to solve Queens: techniques that work
Start with the smallest color region. A region that only spans one row or one column must hold its crown there, which immediately bans that row or column for every other region. This "region forcing" move is the engine of most Queens solves: each placement removes a row, a column and a color from the pool, so the puzzle shrinks fast.
When a region's remaining cells all sit in the same row (or column) — even if the region is larger — you can still cross that row off for everyone else. You don't need to know which exact cell the crown lands on to use the information.
Around every placed crown, mark the eight surrounding cells as impossible. The no-touching rule is stricter than chess: two crowns can never be orthogonally or diagonally adjacent, even across region borders. Combine this with a pigeonhole count — if three regions only have cells left in the same two rows, something upstream is wrong — and you can solve every board without guessing.
Common mistakes
The classic error is reading Queens as chess: crowns here do not attack along whole diagonals, only the eight neighbouring cells are forbidden. Players eliminate far too many cells and conclude the board is broken.
The second is guessing early. Every board we generate has exactly one solution reachable by pure deduction, so a dead end always means a missed forcing move — usually a one-row region you haven't noticed.
From easy to hard
Easy boards are small with chunky regions, so region forcing does most of the work. Hard boards stretch regions across many rows, forcing you to chain several eliminations before the first crown is safe to place. If you time yourself, sub-two-minutes on hard is a genuinely strong result.
FAQ
- Is Queens free and unlimited on LinkMyPzzl?
- Yes. Every Queens board is generated on demand in your browser — play as many as you want, for free, with no account.
- How is this different from the daily Queens puzzle?
- The daily version made popular by LinkedIn offers one grid per day. LinkMyPzzl generates unlimited boards and lets you choose the difficulty, so you can actually train.
- Does every Queens board have a unique solution?
- Yes. A solver verifies every generated board before you see it: there is always exactly one solution.
- Can two crowns share a diagonal?
- Yes, as long as they aren't touching. Only the eight cells immediately around a crown are forbidden — Queens crowns don't attack along full diagonals like chess queens.
- Do I ever need to guess?
- No. Every generated board is checked to have a single solution reachable by logic alone. If you're stuck, look for a color region whose remaining cells all share one row or column.