Queens · No. 872 · Saturday edition
LinkedIn Queens #872 Answer (Sep 19, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C3, R2C6, R3C9, R4C7, R5C5, R6C8, R7C2, R8C4, R9C1
About Queens #872
- Queens #872 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 3 squares and the largest covers 25.
- 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 7.9 across the previous 7 puzzles.
- Every open square in row 5 belongs to the only 25-square region, so that region's queen sits in row 5 and its squares outside row 5 are ruled out, such as R1C5.
- Every open square in column 5 belongs to the 25-square region containing R1C5, so that region's queen sits in column 5 and its squares outside column 5 are ruled out, such as R5C1.
- A queen on R3C6 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 4-square region in rows 3–4, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R3C6 is ruled out, and the same test rules out R4C8.