Games like Queens
Finished today’s Queens and want more of that feeling: a few colored regions, one answer, and a chain of small certainties? These are the puzzles that scratch the same itch, closest first.
The closest: Star Battle
Queens is Star Battle with one star. Put two in every row, column and region, still never touching, and the same moves go twice as deep. If you like Queens, start here.
More placement puzzles
Put things on a grid so every rule holds at once.
Puzzles about regions
Colored or walled-off areas, each with its own rule, like Queens’ regions.
LITS
Shade a tetromino in every region so all the shading connects.
One shape in every region, all connected.
Nurikabe
Shade the sea so every number is an island of that size.
Islands and sea instead of regions and queens.
Heyawake
Shade cells in rooms. No white line may cross more than one wall.
Rooms with counts, and lines that may not run too far.
Shikaku
Cut the grid into rectangles, each holding one number equal to its area.
Cut the grid into regions yourself.
The rest of the daily set
Queens is one of four puzzles we put up every day, the same for everyone.
Mini sudoku
Six by six sudoku, with a four by four starter. The bridge to Variant Sudoku.
Rows, columns and boxes: Queens’ logic with digits.
Nonograms
Shade cells to match the number clues and reveal a picture.
Line by line logic that ends in a picture.
Knights and Knaves
Knights tell the truth, knaves lie. Work out who is who.
Pure logic: suppose, follow, rule out.
Questions
What game is LinkedIn’s Queens based on?
Star Battle. Queens is a one-star Star Battle: one queen per row, column and region, none touching. Star Battle puts two stars in each, which makes for longer, deeper puzzles.
Where can I play more Queens puzzles?
Here: a new Queens every day, unlimited Queens at any size, the archive of every past daily, and a hard 10×10 every week.
Are these free?
Yes. Every puzzle on Logic Puzzle Club is free to play in the browser, with no sign-up.
Do these puzzles need guessing?
No. Each has exactly one answer, reached by logic alone, and a solver checks every daily before it goes up.