LinkedIn Queens #913 answer — October 30, 2026

This 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 the green and red regions.
2. 2The first deductionShow hint

   The green 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.

   Pattern

   Pigeonhole: two regions in two rows. When two regions fit inside the same two rows, those rows' queens belong to them, so cross out everything else in those rows.
3. 3The first queenShow hint

   The yellow region has one open cell left (row 5, column 6), so its queen goes there.

   Steps 1–3 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. Pigeonhole: two regions in two rows. The green 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.
   2. A region trapped in one row. The gray region lies entirely in row 6, so the queen of row 6 belongs to it and every other cell of row 6 is empty.
   3. Pigeonhole: two regions in two columns. The green and gray regions lie entirely within columns 7 and 8, so the queens of those columns belong to them and every other cell of columns 7 and 8 is empty.
   4. Last open cell. The yellow region has one open cell left (row 5, column 6), so its queen goes there.
   5. Last open cell. The gray region has one open cell left (row 6, column 8), so its queen goes there.
   6. Last open cell. The green region has one open cell left (row 8, column 7), so its queen goes there.
   7. Pigeonhole: two regions in two columns. The red and beige regions lie entirely within columns 4 and 5, so the queens of those columns belong to them and every other cell of columns 4 and 5 is empty.
   8. A row trapped in one region. The open cells of row 1 all belong to the purple region, so its queen sits in row 1 and its other cells are empty.
   9. A row trapped in one region. The open cells of row 2 all belong to the blue region, so its queen sits in row 2 and its other cells are empty.
   10. Last open cell. Column 1 has one open cell left, in row 1, so its queen goes there.
   11. Last open cell. The blue region has one open cell left (row 2, column 3), so its queen goes there.
   12. Last open cell. The orange region has one open cell left (row 4, column 2), so its queen goes there.
   13. Last open cell. The beige region has one open cell left (row 3, column 5), so its queen goes there.
   14. Last open cell. The red region has one open cell left (row 7, column 4), so its queen goes there.
5. 5Queens #913 solutionShow answer

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