Queens · No. 880 · Sunday edition
LinkedIn Queens #880 Answer (Sep 27, 2026)
Hint: Start with the smallest colored region — its queen has the fewest possible squares.
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R1C6, R2C3, R3C1, R4C9, R5C2, R6C4, R7C8, R8C5, R9C7
About Queens #880
- Queens #880 is played on a 9×9 grid with 9 colored regions.
- The smallest region covers 4 squares and the largest covers 20.
- 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.
- The only 5-square region and the 6-square region in rows 1–2 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 R1C5.
- A queen on R2C9 would share a row or column with, or touch, all 4 open squares of the 6-square region containing R2C7, leaving that region nowhere for its own queen, so R2C9 is ruled out, and the same test rules out R4C8.
- Every open square left in the 5-square region containing R2C9 sits in row 1, so row 1's queen belongs to that region and the rest of row 1 is ruled out, including R1C1.