Queens (on LinkedIn): How To Solve It
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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Apparently 100,000 people every day are playing the new Queens game on LinkedIn! It's a puzzle created by Cracking The Cryptic's old friend Thomas Snyder (3x World Sudoku Champion, 1x World Puzzle Champion) and very enjoyable it is too!
It's based off the logic puzzle Starbattle but where only one queen (star) needs to be placed into every row, column and region. The puzzles get harder through the week (with Monday being the easiest and Sunday the hardest).... so yesterday Simon thought he'd show you some of the strategies he uses vs the hardest puzzles.
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(Use 1 for a Queen and 2 for an empty cell to make the solution check function work)
Rules:
Place exactly one queen in every row, column and coloured region. Two queens cannot touch each other. Not even diagonally.
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Thanks Simon. You should absolutely consider doing something like Wordle in a Minute for Queens, as a RUclips shorts. Thanks for the video!
Queenly? Or starly in a minute!
Totally new game for me, never seen before. Thank you for all your great puzzles.
I've grow to love Tango in LinkedIn, too. They do have some fun puzzles.
I have been a little addicted to this puzzle so I created a solver that uses various rules to solve the puzzle. Worst case it uses brute force to solve the puzzle and I was looking for a challenge so I used the same one you did. Anyway I'm delighted to say that for this puzzle, it didn't need the "brute force" hint.
I have just started to do these, didn't know about them until Simon mentioned on the channel. Thank you for explaining the logic, I plan of applying the logic to future puzzles.
I started doing these and have definitely incorporated everything I’ve learned from this channel into my strategy!
I finished in 1:50 minutes. I'm a fan of star battles, so this puzzle felt very natural to me. I might have to incorporate this in my daily puzzling. As usual, it fells good to beat Simon's time. Great Puzzle!
This IS just starbattle, by definition. Great "invention" there.
Been loving Queens, happy to see you making a video about it.
I started playing this game and thought of you! Glad you like it too.
0m58s, beautiful little introduction to sudoku rules
Loved the game and loved the approachability of this puzzle 😀! Had never heard of it before.
I have been playing these puzzles for ages on my phone, but under a different name. It's called "Parks" and there have been several releases after the original: Parks Seasons, Parks Landscape, Parks Cantica (author is Andrea Sabbatini)
The "plot" is that you have to plant a single tree in each park and that they don't bear to see each other (so one per row/column) and can't touch each other.
The number of puzzles is finite though, and the difficulty is incremental. It is starting to get suitably nasty when you have to put not ONE but TWO trees in each park... 😉
Finished finished a puzzle that only uses 1s and 2s in 12:22 at 12:02AM which is somehow almost as satisfying as the puzzle.
I have been loving LinkedIn's puzzle games. I will admit I am far better at Tango than Queens, so I can use all your help 😂
really liked it. took me a while to understand the logic since it was ages i did star battle, but it was a fun and nice little puzzle.
I got stuck, since I thought the diagonal rule was for a full diagonal line. It was just for diagonally touching squares 😅
So it is just star battle...
1m22s here, Although "Queens" is quite misleading name for this one
Yeah, should be "Kings", no ?
Never mind. It's just star battle. I thought star battle always had 2 stars per R/C/B but that's not the case.
@@willemm9356Yes, there are three instances of diagonal conflict if they're queens. Kings would be a much better name.
It's called queens because it's based on a famous puzzle (and often programming problem for interviews) about putting queens on a chess table, in a way that they don't threaten each other, which implies one in each row and each column.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle
@@AndreiFierbinteanu Well yes but that puzzle actually have queen move restrictions on diagonal (hence a queen) but this is just rook and king combined, or as the reply above mentioned, "star battle". (I know it's also sometimes known as Queens but I hate it)
I love my daily Queens game. 100 day streak today!
Yes!!! I've been doing Queens, Crossclimb and Pinpoint daily and now Tango ever since they dropped - Crossclimb I'm usually top 1%, but Tango and Queens can often be tossups.
Didn't this puzzle already exist as "star battle"? I prefer that theming to Queens. Still enjoy watching Simon solve puzzles no matter what!
That was a fun and quick puzzle!
Short and sweet. Great for a quick feeling of success :D
4:58 - In quite new to star puzzles but happy with that.
I didn’t know people played them on LinkedIn but I started to play them in the Radio Times as they’ve started printing them in the last few months.
Ive tried a couple of the Radio Times ones but I only get so far. The additional rule about one row and column containing no queen's always throws me. Plus they don't specify in their instructions that the queens cannot touch other although the solutions always have no touching queens. If you or Simon have any tips for this variation, I'd be grateful
I enjoyed this a lot!
Really cool puzzle!
that's so clever! I would like to see you play and deduct Turing Machine board game 🔥
So funny this appeared here. I’ve been playing this and i feel like I’ve gotten really good at these because of learning star battle from CTC! And yes the name bothers me, but that’s what linkedin decided to call it😂
Tango on LinkedIn is also fun
Speed tip: click on the cell and drag, it will mark all the cells. TBH these puzzles are the only reason I still use LinkedIn, otherwise it became a Facebook
00:06:02. This was a fun short one.
this would be a great simon equivalent to wordle in a minute! haha
I only play these games on mobile due to that lag you mentioned on desktop. It's the only way I can compete.
Could you do Tango at least once?
A new RUclips short series - Queens in 3 minutes? :)
When do you have time to eat?
I like this!
I wish the title wasn't Queens when the Queens can see each other diagonally.
Forgive me, but my kids discovered this game on Sporcle years ago (I think it's called Trees). Maybe Thomas invented the original and it's just now catching on?
first I thought they see the entire diagonals like the Queens in chess, and I was confused how come it wasn't the right solution 😂 then I understood that it only sees adjacent cells on the diagonals. As another comment pointed out, very misleading name indeed, but nice accessible puzzle for less advanced puzzle solvers like myself.
2:16 very fun ^^
My only gripe is it should be called Kings. I'm used to queen rules in chess and thought it covered all diagonals seen by the queens. This is more akin to a Kings rule constriction. /Gripe
First time playing this, 6:24
My first start would have been r9c7. The red area is column 8, and the large one column 9. But I got a weird 34 second puzzle today with two givens...
No queen in the corner song !
The link takes me to a different puzzle. I assume because the video was filmed on a different day, and it's now showing today's puzzle.
I recreated the grid from the video in an empty grid in Sven's software, and solved it there instead.
I've added a version of the puzzle from the video to the Video Description now in case people want to try that one :)
@@CrackingTheCryptic How do you place the queen in the sven app?
Use the digit 1. And 2 for a "non-Queen".
@@CrackingTheCryptic Thanks!
3.50 for me. Have to get used to this.
Terrible time 😅 totally 🙄
Thank you
soooo...star battle?
Was this supposed to be one of the hard puzzles? It took me two minutes.
Why is it called Queens when it should be called Kings?
I have a *major* objection to this puzzle.
The use of queens instead of kings seems nothing more than a viciously nasty Machiavellian ploy to mislead chess players with *zero* value to the puzzle itself.
I restarted the puzzle twice thinking I’d made some careless mistake.
Then when I reviewed the rules and noted it said queens don’t “touch” each other, it became apparent that the pieces were behaving like kings, not queens.
Chess players are likely to be particularly prone to the misdirection, because most will be familiar with the 8 queens challenge, which this 9 queens puzzle falsely alludes to.
Wouldn't rooks be the most apt piece? Kings don't see far enough (whole row/column). Regions add another wrinkle for the plain chess analogy.
@@Cartilog-z4f True, it's a combination of king and rook then, with region check.
@@JS... I’d say the rook moves are covered by “place one in each row and column”.
So the king can cover touch by king-move.
Of course what to place could be anything: star, circle, x
It’s just that the queen in particular is misleading, and detracts away from being a logic puzzle towards a “trick-you” puzzle.
Why are they called queens, not kings?
@@MasterHigure I think it's because it may be based on a very popular computer programming challenge where you put queens on a chess board so that they can't "kill" each other, it's called the n-queen problem!
The classic chess puzzle is about placing 8 queens on a chessboard.
@@Elezshar Yes, but in that puzzle, the restriction on the pieces is actually related the movement of queens. In this puzzle the restriction is based on the movement of kings. Which makes it strange to call them queens.
Yeah, I couldn't find the answer, because queen's diag is the whole diag. Seems this is only the 'next' diag, as in the king's movement.
Utter Woke Nonsense
Er . . . shouldn't this be called Kings?
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The name of this puzzle is very misleading. It screwed my logic up multiple times. There is a puzzle in chess involving queens placed on a chessboard that don't see each other.
Yes, it should be called Kings.
My pre-work "daily diet" - wordle/connections/strands/mini from NYT, one-up, minute cryptic and Rangsk's daily 6x6 , along with Hexcells infinite hard for the day's date - - and I guess, queens just got added!
Can we play past games? I didn't see an archive link.
Of course not; such puzzles are meant to keep you coming back to the platform every day.