Games like Queens

How Queens works

Queens is LinkedIn’s daily logic puzzle. The grid is split into colored regions, and you place crowns. In LinkedIn’s own words, each row, column and colored region must contain exactly one crown, and crowns can’t go in neighboring squares, diagonals included.

Tap a square to cycle it from empty to an ✕ (your note that no crown can go there) to a crown. There’s a hint button, and settings that flag broken rules or place the ✕s for you.

A new Queens comes out every day at midnight Pacific time, and the old one expires then, so there is no archive to catch up on. Anyone can play, with or without a LinkedIn account. Signed in, you keep a streak and see how your connections did. LinkedIn launched Queens in April 2024, with Pinpoint and Crossclimb, and now has eight daily games.

The idea is older than LinkedIn. Queens is a version of Star Battle, a puzzle that first appeared at the 2003 World Puzzle Championship in the Netherlands, made by the puzzle designer Hans Eendebak. Its name for a crown is a star, and harder Star Battles ask for two or three in every line. Further back still is the eight queens puzzle: put eight chess queens on a board so that none attacks another. The chess composer Max Bezzel published it in 1848, and it has 92 answers.

How to solve Queens

Every Queens is solved with a handful of moves, used over and over. ✕ freely: an ✕ is only a note, and each one narrows the board.

1. Start with the smallest region.A region of one square is a crown already. A region of two or three squares leaves its crown very few places to go, and often every one of them rules out the same neighbors.
2. Cross off around every crown.A crown takes its whole row, its whole column, its region and the eight squares around it. ✕ all of them at once.
3. A region in one line owns that line.If all of a region’s squares sit in one row, its crown must be in that row, so no other region’s crown can be. ✕ the rest of the row. The same goes for columns.
4. Count regions against lines.If two regions fit inside the same two rows, those two rows’ crowns belong to them. ✕ every other square in those rows. Three regions in three columns work the same way.
5. Test the square that would empty a region.If a crown on some square would ✕ every last square of another region, that square can’t hold a crown. It often breaks a stuck board.

The same moves solve Star Battle and the murder grids below: find what has the fewest places to go, place it, and see what it rules out.

Games like Queens at a glance

Queens first, so you can compare. All of them can be played without paying, and most have a new puzzle each day.

Checked on each game’s own site in October 2026. Prices and offers change, so check there too.

More logic puzzles from LinkedIn

Queens has three logic siblings on LinkedIn, each a few minutes a day, and the same rules for who can play. (Its other dailies, Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Wend, are word games, and Patches is a shape puzzle.)

Queens unlimited: Star Battle

When one a day isn’t enough, play Star Battle. It is the same puzzle under its classic name, and these sites have far more of it.

Logic puzzles like Queens

Other puzzles where you place things on a grid until only one arrangement fits. Several are murder mysteries built on Queens’ one-per-row, one-per-column rule. If it’s numbers you like, see games like Nerdle.

Lie of Sight and Queens: close, but not the same

Both are placement puzzles on a grid, with one arrangement where everything fits. Here is where they part ways.

• People, not crowns. You place the Fibberson family in a room seen from above, and the furniture matters: walls and tall things block a view.
• The rules are sight lines. Dad sees his whole row and column. The Kid does too, but he’s short, so low things like tables block him. Grandma sees two squares in every direction, and Rex the dog smells the eight squares around him, even through walls.
• One of them is lying. Every story is a clue, and exactly one is false. You win by finding the story that can’t be true.
• One a day, and short. A new case at midnight, your time, and most take 2 to 5 minutes.

In the seven days to October 8, 2026, 218 of the 228 answers given on the daily case were right, about 96%: the puzzle is fair, not a trick.

Questions people ask

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New to Lie of Sight? How to play has the rules and the family, with pictures.