LinkedIn Queens hints & answer today — October 31, 2026 (#914)

Today's Queens has exactly one solution, and you can reach it without guessing. Every step below follows from the rules. A “check” step shows why a queen can't go somewhere; it never asks you to gamble.

1. 1Where to lookShow hint

   Look at column 1.
2. 2The first deductionShow hint

   The open cells of column 1 all belong to the gray region, so its queen sits in column 1 and its other cells are empty.

   Pattern

   A column trapped in one region. When every open cell of a column is the same color, that region's queen is in the column, so cross out the rest of the region.
3. 3The first queenShow hint

   Column 3 has one open cell left, in row 5, so its queen goes there.

   Steps 1–12 of the walkthrough rule out the cells marked ×.
4. 4Solve it step by stepShow hint

   Rows count from the top and columns from the left. Every queen rules out the rest of its row, its column and its color region, plus the eight cells around it.

   1. A column trapped in one region. The open cells of column 1 all belong to the gray region, so its queen sits in column 1 and its other cells are empty.
   2. A column trapped in one region. The open cells of column 2 all belong to the orange region, so its queen sits in column 2 and its other cells are empty.
   3. Pigeonhole: two regions in two rows. The purple and yellow regions lie entirely within rows 4 and 5, so the queens of those rows belong to them and every other cell of rows 4 and 5 is empty.
   4. Pigeonhole: two regions in two rows. The green and beige regions lie entirely within rows 1 and 2, so the queens of those rows belong to them and every other cell of rows 1 and 2 is empty.
   5. Pigeonhole: two regions in two columns. The blue and pink regions lie entirely within columns 8 and 9, so the queens of those columns belong to them and every other cell of columns 8 and 9 is empty.
   6. A region trapped in one row. The beige region lies entirely in row 1, so the queen of row 1 belongs to it and every other cell of row 1 is empty.
   7. No-touching check. A queen at row 1, column 5 would leave the green region with no open cell, so that cell stays empty.
   8. Pigeonhole: two regions in two columns. The purple and beige regions lie entirely within columns 6 and 7, so the queens of those columns belong to them and every other cell of columns 6 and 7 is empty.
   9. No-touching check. A queen at row 6, column 2 would leave column 3 with no open cell, so that cell stays empty.
   10. Pigeonhole: two regions in two rows. The orange and red regions lie entirely within rows 7 and 8, so the queens of those rows belong to them and every other cell of rows 7 and 8 is empty.
   11. A region trapped in one row. The blue region lies entirely in row 9, so the queen of row 9 belongs to it and every other cell of row 9 is empty.
   12. No-touching check. A queen at row 7, column 3 would leave the orange region with no open cell, so that cell stays empty.
   13. Last open cell. Column 3 has one open cell left, in row 5, so its queen goes there.
   14. Last open cell. The purple region has one open cell left (row 4, column 7), so its queen goes there.
   15. Last open cell. The beige region has one open cell left (row 1, column 6), so its queen goes there.
   16. Last open cell. The green region has one open cell left (row 2, column 4), so its queen goes there.
   17. Last open cell. The red region has one open cell left (row 8, column 5), so its queen goes there.
   18. Last open cell. The orange region has one open cell left (row 7, column 2), so its queen goes there.
   19. Last open cell. The gray region has one open cell left (row 3, column 1), so its queen goes there.
   20. Last open cell. The pink region has one open cell left (row 6, column 9), so its queen goes there.
   21. Last open cell. The blue region has one open cell left (row 9, column 8), so its queen goes there.
5. 5Queens #914 solutionShow answer

   Crowns in columns 6, 4, 1, 7, 3, 9, 2, 5, 8 (rows 1–9, top to bottom).