How to play
How to play Queens Game on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Queens is a grid split into coloured regions. To play Queens, place one queen in every row, every column and every region, and no two queens may touch, not even at a corner. There is only one way to place them.
- One puzzle a day
- Resets at midnight Pacific
- Free on LinkedIn
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- ✓ Right
One per row and column
Exactly one queen in each row and each column.
- ✗ Not allowed
One per region
Each coloured region holds exactly one queen, however big or small it is.
- ✗ Not allowed
Never touching
No two queens in neighbouring cells, the diagonal neighbours included.
From the puzzle to the answer
LinkedIn Queens #868, step by step. Every puzzle's steps are on its card in the archive.
The puzzle, as it is given
Halfway: 4 of 7 steps
Solved
Where to play Queens on LinkedIn, and the controls
- Open linkedin.com/games/queens, or search for Queens in the LinkedIn app.
- Tap a cell once to mark it with an X, a cell no queen can take.
- Tap it twice to place a queen. The puzzle is solved when every queen is in place.
- Solved it? LinkedIn shows your time, and you can send the puzzle to a connection as a Queens invite: they get the same grid and try to beat your time.
Queens tips that solve it faster
Start with the smallest region
A region of one or two cells has almost no choice, and its queen closes a row, a column and its neighbours at once.
Mark the X's
After every queen, mark its row, its column and the cells around it. The board shrinks quickly and the forced places show.
A region inside one line
If a region lies inside one row, its queen is in that row, so no other region can put its queen there.
Count regions against rows
When two regions fit inside the same two rows, those rows are theirs, and every other region's cells there can be marked.