Queens · No. 852 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Queens #852 Answer (Aug 30, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C9, R2C6, R3C8, R4C3, R5C7, R6C5, R7C1, R8C4, R9C2
About Queens #852
- Queens #852 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 5 squares and the largest covers 21.
- 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.
- Every open square in row 1 belongs to the only 21-square region, so that region's queen sits in row 1 and its squares outside row 1 are ruled out, such as R2C1.
- A queen on R4C6 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 5 open squares of the 5-square region in rows 2–4, columns 4–6, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R4C6 is ruled out.
- Rows 2, 3, and 4 only offer squares from the 5-square region in rows 2–4, columns 3–5, the 5-square region in rows 2–4, columns 4–6, and the only 19-square region, so those regions spend all three queens there and their squares elsewhere are ruled out, such as R5C8.