LinkedIn Queens #919 Answer (November 5, 2026)

9×9 grid · 9 colour regions · Nov 5, 2026

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Hints and the full solution for the LinkedIn Queens puzzle of November 5, 2026.

Queens #919, 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 vibrant coral one (dotted): it has only 4 cells, in rows 4–6 and columns 1–2. 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 vibrant coral, peach orange and lime yellow 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 5 rows. Cross out their rows, columns and neighbours; 4 crowns to go.

Queens #919 answer

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Where each crown goes, top to bottom:

Row 1: column 5 (lavender)
Row 2: column 9 (peach orange)
Row 3: column 6 (soft blue)
Row 4: column 8 (light gray)
Row 5: column 1 (vibrant coral)
Row 6: column 4 (pastel green)
Row 7: column 2 (lime yellow)
Row 8: column 7 (warm beige)
Row 9: column 3 (rose pink)

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How to solve Queens #919, 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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The pastel green region now lies entirely inside column 4, so column 4’s crown has to be pastel green’s. That rules out the other 2 cells in column 4.
Protect the vibrant coral region: its last 4 free cells would all be crossed out by a crown at row 3, column 1 or row 5, column 2. So those cells are out.
The lime yellow region has 4 free cells left. A crown at row 7, column 3 or row 9, column 2 would cross out all of them, so neither can hold a crown.
A crown at row 8, column 2 would wipe out every cell the rose pink region has left, leaving it nowhere to go. So that cell can’t hold a crown.
Protect the lime yellow region: its last 3 free cells (row 6, column 2, row 7, column 2 and row 8, column 3) would all be crossed out by a crown at row 6, column 3. So that cell is out.
The vibrant coral, lime yellow and rose pink regions fit entirely inside columns 1–3. Three regions in three columns: those columns’ crowns must all be theirs, so the other 10 cells in columns 1–3 are out.
The lavender region has just one cell left that isn’t crossed out (row 1, column 5). Put its crown there.
Only one cell of the peach orange region can still hold a crown (row 2, column 9), so its crown goes there.
Every free cell of the soft blue region is in column 6, so its crown will be in that column. No other region can use column 6: cross out its other 5 cells.
A crown at row 8, column 1, row 8, column 4 or row 9, column 4 would wipe out every cell column 3 has left (rows 8 and 9), leaving it nowhere to go. So none of those cells can hold a crown.
Protect the soft blue region: its last 2 free cells (rows 3 and 4 of column 6) would both be crossed out by a crown at row 3 or 4 of column 7. So those cells are out.
Only one cell of the light gray region can still hold a crown (row 4, column 8), so its crown goes there.
The soft blue region is down to a single free cell, row 3, column 6: that is where its crown goes.
All of the vibrant coral region’s free cells sit in column 1. The column’s one crown must go to vibrant coral, so its 2 cells in other colours are out.
The rose pink region has just one cell left that isn’t crossed out (row 9, column 3). Put its crown there.
Every cell of row 8 except column 7 is crossed out, so row 8’s crown sits in column 7.
Protect the vibrant coral region: its last 2 free cells (rows 5 and 6 of column 1) would both be crossed out by a crown at row 6, column 2. So that cell is out.
Everything else in the lime yellow region is crossed out, which leaves row 7, column 2 for its crown.
The vibrant coral region has just one cell left that isn’t crossed out (row 5, column 1). Put its crown there.
Only one cell of the pastel green region can still hold a crown (row 6, column 4), so its crown goes there.