Queens Puzzle: Play Unlimited Queens Games Online

The queens puzzle is a short logic game with one rule set: put a crown in every row, every column and every coloured region, and keep the crowns apart so no two touch, not even at a corner. Press Play above for today’s puzzle, or tap New for another one straight away. There is no daily limit.

How to play the queens puzzle

The board is a square grid split into coloured regions, with as many regions as rows. Each needs exactly one crown.

• Tap a cell once to cross it out, twice to place a crown, and a third time to clear it.
• Drag across empty cells to cross out several at once.
• A crown that breaks a rule turns red, so mistakes show up straight away.

Every puzzle is checked when it is made and has exactly one solution. You never need to guess.

Queens strategy in four steps

1. Start with the smallest region. It has the fewest places for its crown.
2. Cross out around every crown. The eight cells around a crown, plus the rest of its row, column and region, can never hold another crown.
3. Look for regions stuck in one row or column. That region owns the line, so cross out the rest of it.
4. Count pairs. If two regions both fit inside the same two columns, those columns are full. Cross out every other cell in them.

Daily puzzle and board sizes

Choose a 7×7, 8×8 or 9×9 board. Daily gives everyone the same puzzle for the day in each size, and New makes unlimited extra puzzles. When one crown per region gets easy, switch to 2 stars for the harder version of the same game, explained on the Star Battle page.