Queens Game Unlimited
Endless Queens boards — one queen per row, column and colour region, and no two queens touching. Same rules as the LinkedIn daily Queens, without the once-a-day limit.
How to play Queens
Every board is a grid cut into coloured regions. Your job is to place queens so that all three constraints hold at once: one queen in every row, one in every column, and one in every coloured region. On top of that, queens may not touch — not side by side, not corner to corner.
Tap a cell once to drop a queen, twice to mark it with an × as “definitely not here”, and a third time to clear it. Marking is not decoration: it is the fastest way to hold a deduction in your head while you work the rest of the board.
Rules at a glance
- One queen per row — an N×N board always holds exactly N queens.
- One queen per column.
- One queen per coloured region, however oddly shaped that region is.
- No two queens may be adjacent, including diagonally.
How to solve Queens without guessing
Start with the smallest region. A region that sits inside two rows kills every other cell in those rows — that single observation often collapses a third of the board before you place anything.
Then look for regions that are one cell wide. A region that is a straight line across a row forces the queen to sit somewhere on that line, which eliminates the rest of the row. Chaining those two rules solves most 6×6 boards outright.
Treat adjacency as a wall. Once a queen is placed, the eight cells around it are dead. Mark them if you need to. Players who lose time on Queens are almost always re-deriving the same adjacency over and over instead of writing it down.
Never guess on 8×8. A wrong queen looks fine for several moves and then strands a region with no legal cell. If you reach that state, the mistake was three placements earlier — restart rather than patch.
Queens Unlimited vs the LinkedIn daily Queens
The daily version gives you one board a day and keeps your streak. Unlimited is for the part that actually makes you better: repetition on boards nobody is scoring. Same rules, no clock, no streak to break.
Frequently asked questions
How many queens go on the board?
One per row, so an N×N board takes N queens — six on a 6×6, eight on an 8×8. If you have placed more than that, something is already wrong.
Can queens touch diagonally?
No. Corner-to-corner contact is illegal, and it is the rule most players forget.
Are these boards the same as LinkedIn's?
No — they are generated in your browser. Each board is built from a valid solution and only kept if it has very few alternative answers, so there is no ambiguity about what counts as solved.
Why does the board not accept my placement?
A board is only solved when all N queens are placed and no rule is broken. Conflicting queens turn red, and the message under the grid names the rule that failed.
Sources and method
The rules described here are the published rules of the official LinkedIn Queens puzzle. Each board on this page is generated here and kept only if it has very few valid answers, so there is no ambiguity about what counts as solved.
- LinkedIn Queens (official puzzle) — www.linkedin.com/games/queens/ · rules this page imitates
- LinkedIn Games hub — www.linkedin.com/games/ · daily schedule
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