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How to solve today’s LinkedIn Queens — July 28, 2026
duplixo publishes its own free daily Queens — same rules, unlimited practice — alongside the solving method below. This is not the official LinkedIn puzzle, and duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn. For the exact daily board, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or get unlimited practice, you are in the right place.
How to solve today’s Queens
duplixo’s free daily Queens for July 28, 2026 is an 8×8 grid of eight colour regions with exactly one valid arrangement. The fastest route starts in the smallest region (Rose, 1 cells) and works outward, letting the no-touch rule clear cells row by row — the same method that cracks any Queens board. Five graduated hints sit below; the worked solution is revealed further down whenever you are ready.
Need a nudge? Five graduated hints
Hint 1 Where to begin Reveal
Start with the Rose region — it is the smallest on the board (1 cells), so its crown is the easiest to pin down first.
Hint 2 The left edge Reveal
The crown in column 1 sits in row 1, the Rose region. Anchoring the left edge clears several diagonals.
Hint 3 The right edge Reveal
The crown in the last column is on row 4. With both edges fixed, the middle starts to collapse into place.
Hint 4 The top row Reveal
Row 1’s crown is in column 1 — which rules out the touching cells on row 2.
Hint 5 The opening run Reveal
Reading top to bottom, the first three crowns fall on columns 1, 3, 5. The rest follow from the no-touch rule.
A worked solution: our daily Queens, solved
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Today’s Queens solution — one crown in every row, column and colour region, with no two crowns touching. Read top to bottom, the crowns fall on columns 1, 3, 5, 8, 2, 7, 4, 6.
How LinkedIn Queens works
Queens is a pure deduction puzzle on an 8×8 board divided into eight coloured regions. Your job is to place exactly one crown in every row, every column and every colour region — eight crowns in all — with one extra catch: no two crowns may touch, not even on a diagonal.
There is no guessing in a well-formed Queens grid. Each board is built to have a single valid arrangement, so every crown can be reasoned out from the constraints. The smallest regions and the board edges are usually where the chain of logic begins.
Today’s board, by difficulty
| Indicator | Estimate |
|---|---|
| Estimated solve rate | 79% |
| Typical solve time | 3:21 |
| Likely to need a hint | 28% |
| Hardest region to place | Violet |
| Difficulty vs a typical board | Easier · 60th pct |
How we build this. The Queens board on this page is generated by duplixo and run through our backtracking solver to confirm it has exactly one solution before it is published. The figures above are modelled difficulty indicators for that board — derived from its structure, not measured from player sessions. duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn.
Reading today’s Queens
| Date | Puzzle | Result |
|---|---|---|
| July 28, 2026 | No. 818 | 79% solvedToday |
| July 27, 2026 | No. 817 | 55% solved |
| July 26, 2026 | No. 816 | 51% solved |
| July 25, 2026 | No. 815 | 63% solved |
| July 24, 2026 | No. 814 | 62% solved |
| July 23, 2026 | No. 813 | 50% solved |
| July 22, 2026 | No. 812 | 62% solved |
| July 21, 2026 | No. 811 | 49% solved |
Queens answer FAQ
Can a Queens puzzle have more than one solution?
No. A well-formed Queens grid has exactly one valid arrangement of crowns. Every board duplixo publishes is run through our backtracking solver first to confirm the solution is unique, so the worked solution above is the only one for our board.
Does the no-touching rule include diagonals?
Yes. No two crowns may sit in cells that touch, and that includes the four diagonal neighbours as well as the cells directly above, below and beside a crown. Each crown effectively keeps a one-cell gap from every other crown.
Is there an archive of past Queens puzzles?
Yes. We keep a dated archive of previous Queens boards and their solved grids, and our unlimited practice mode generates fresh, solvable puzzles whenever you want more — each checked for a clean, single-style solution.
Is this the official LinkedIn Queens board?
No. duplixo publishes its own free Queens board every day, with the same rules and unlimited practice, plus this how-to-solve guide and a worked solution. It is independent of LinkedIn and not affiliated with it. For the exact official daily puzzle, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or practise without limits, you are in the right place.
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The difficulty today lives in the larger regions. Violet sprawls across 16 cells and gives very few early footholds, so solvers who rush the centre keep tripping the no-touch rule between neighbouring crowns.
The clean path is to refuse the middle until the edges are settled: pin the smallest region first, lock the two edge columns, and the diagonal-touch constraint walks the remaining crowns into the only seats that survive.