Queens · No. 838 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Queens #838 Answer (Aug 16, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C1, R2C9, R3C6, R4C3, R5C8, R6C5, R7C7, R8C4, R9C2
About Queens #838
- Queens #838 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 4 squares and the largest covers 28.
- 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 8.3 across the previous 7 puzzles.
- A queen on R2C6 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 4-square region in rows 2–4, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R2C6 is ruled out, and the same test rules out R4C5.
- A queen on R5C6 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 4-square region in rows 4–6, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R5C6 is ruled out.
- A queen on R6C4 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 3 open squares of the 5-square region containing R4C5, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R6C4 is ruled out.