LinkedIn Queens #918 Answer (November 4, 2026)

7×7 grid · 7 colour regions · Nov 4, 2026

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Hints and the full solution for the LinkedIn Queens puzzle of November 4, 2026.

Queens #918, redrawn in the game's colours. Put one crown in every row, column and colour region; crowns can't touch, not even diagonally.

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Hint 1The smallest colour region

Start with the smallest region, the peach orange one (dotted): it has only 4 cells, in rows 1–2 and columns 5–7. Its crown has the fewest places to go, and wherever it lands it crosses out its row, its column and the cells around it.

Hint 2Crowns in the three smallest regions

The crowns of the peach orange, soft blue and light gray regions. Cross out their rows, columns and neighbours, and look for a region that is left with only one free cell.

Hint 3The top half

Every crown in the top 4 rows. Cross out their rows, columns and neighbours; 3 crowns to go.

Queens #918 answer

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Where each crown goes, top to bottom:

Row 1: column 4 (lavender)
Row 2: column 7 (peach orange)
Row 3: column 3 (light gray)
Row 4: column 5 (soft blue)
Row 5: column 2 (vibrant coral)
Row 6: column 6 (pastel green)
Row 7: column 1 (lime yellow)

✓ Checked Nov 4, 12:01 AM Pacific: our solver placed the crowns on its own and confirmed this is the only way. How we check

How to solve Queens #918, step by step

Our solver's reasoning, in an order you can follow without guessing. In each picture the red crosses are the cells that step rules out by reasoning, the grey ones were out already or fall to a crown, the outline shows where it looked, and the ringed crown is the new one.

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Protect the soft blue region: its last 4 free cells would all be crossed out by a crown at row 3, column 5 or row 5, column 4. So those cells are out.
Every free cell of the light gray region is in column 3, so its crown will be in that column. No other region can use column 3: cross out its other 4 cells.
The vibrant coral region now lies entirely inside column 2, so column 2’s crown has to be vibrant coral’s. That rules out the other 4 cells in column 2.
All of the lime yellow region’s free cells sit in column 1. The column’s one crown must go to lime yellow, so its 4 cells in other colours are out.
Everything else in the lavender region is crossed out, which leaves row 1, column 4 for its crown.
The peach orange region has just one cell left that isn’t crossed out (row 2, column 7). Put its crown there.
Only one cell of the soft blue region can still hold a crown (row 4, column 5), so its crown goes there.
Row 3 has only one free cell left (column 3), so its crown goes there.
A crown at row 5 or 6 of column 1 would wipe out every cell the vibrant coral region has left (rows 5 and 6 of column 2), leaving it nowhere to go. So neither can hold a crown.
The lime yellow region has just one cell left that isn’t crossed out (row 7, column 1). Put its crown there.
Only one cell of the pastel green region can still hold a crown (row 6, column 6), so its crown goes there.
The vibrant coral region is down to a single free cell, row 5, column 2: that is where its crown goes.