Queens · No. 829 · Friday edition
LinkedIn Queens #829 Answer (Aug 7, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C4, R2C7, R3C9, R4C2, R5C5, R6C3, R7C6, R8C1, R9C8
About Queens #829
- Queens #829 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 4 squares and the largest covers 31.
- No region fits inside a single row or column, so the first placements come from region shapes.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 9 regions, more than the average of 8.1 across the previous 7 puzzles.
- A queen on R6C4 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 4-square region in rows 6–7, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R6C4 is ruled out, and the same test rules out R7C2.
- A queen on R1C8 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 4-square region in rows 1–2, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R1C8 is ruled out, and the same test rules out R2C6.
- Every open square left in the 4-square region containing R1C8 sits in column 9, so column 9's queen belongs to that region and the rest of column 9 is ruled out, including R4C9.