Queens · No. 871 · Friday edition
LinkedIn Queens #871 Answer (Sep 18, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C5, R2C7, R3C2, R4C8, R5C1, R6C3, R7C6, R8C4
About Queens #871
- Queens #871 is played on an 8×8 grid with 8 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 3 squares and the largest covers 15.
- No region fits inside a single row or column, so the first placements come from region shapes.
- LinkedIn rates it Hard.
- It has 8 regions, the same as the average of 8.0 across the previous 7 puzzles.
- A queen on R4C1 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 7 open squares of the only 7-square region, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R4C1 is ruled out.
- Every open square left in the 3-square region containing R4C1 sits in row 5, so row 5's queen belongs to that region and the rest of row 5 is ruled out, including R5C3.
- Every open square left in the 6-square region containing R5C3 sits in row 6, so row 6's queen belongs to that region and the rest of row 6 is ruled out, including R6C4.