Queens · No. 830 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Queens #830 Answer (Aug 8, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C8, R2C1, R3C4, R4C6, R5C3, R6C7, R7C5, R8C2, R9C9
About Queens #830
- Queens #830 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 5 squares and the largest covers 29.
- 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.
- Every open square in row 9 belongs to the only 29-square region, so that region's queen sits in row 9 and its squares outside row 9 are ruled out, such as R1C9.
- Every open square in column 9 belongs to the 29-square region containing R1C9, so that region's queen sits in column 9 and its squares outside column 9 are ruled out, such as R9C1.
- The 5-square region in rows 1–2, columns 6–8 and the 5-square region in rows 1–2, columns 1–3 only have open squares in rows 1 and 2, so they take both queens of those rows and every other square there is ruled out, such as R1C4.