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Queens #2 (September 27, 2026): solution and step-by-step

The 11×11 Hard puzzle from Sunday, September 27, 2026. Play it first; the answer is folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Queens #2 was the 11×11 hard board of Sunday, September 27, 2026. Our deduction solver, the same one behind the hint button, finishes it in 38 steps without guessing: 32 follow straight from the rules (a queen's neighbours, a line that already has its queen, a line with one free cell left), 4 come from confinement (a region squeezed into one row or column, or several regions sharing the same rows), and 2 need a “what if” check: imagine a queen in a cell and watch some row, column or region run out of room. The regions range from 2 to 20 cells; the smallest is gold, and small regions are where the board opens up.

Queens #2 in numbers

Board11×11, Hard
Regions11, from 2 to 20 cells
Deduction steps38
Rule steps (neighbours, satisfied lines, last cell)32
Confinement steps4
“What if” contradictions2
Solver difficulty score20
How to start Queens #2: the first 12 deductions

Each step is a deduction a person can make, in the order our solver found them. Rows and columns are counted from the top-left corner.

  1. Cross out 9 cells. Every free cell of the gold region is in row 2, so that region's queen must be there — the rest of row 2 is crossed out.

  2. Queen at row 3, column 5. The lavender region has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

  3. Cross out 6 cells. Queens can't touch, not even diagonally — the cells around this queen are crossed out.

  4. Cross out 8 cells. Row 3 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

  5. Cross out 8 cells. Column 5 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

  6. Queen at row 2, column 3. Row 2 has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

  7. Cross out 3 cells. Queens can't touch, not even diagonally — the cells around this queen are crossed out.

  8. Cross out 8 cells. Column 3 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

  9. Queen at row 5, column 2. The sky region has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

  10. Cross out 5 cells. Queens can't touch, not even diagonally — the cells around this queen are crossed out.

  11. Cross out 7 cells. Row 5 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

  12. Cross out 5 cells. Column 2 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

26 more steps follow the same pattern until the 11 queens are placed.

Queens #2 solution

Queens by row: row 1: column 1 (coral); row 2: column 3 (gold); row 3: column 5 (lavender); row 4: column 7 (orchid); row 5: column 2 (sky); row 6: column 11 (mint); row 7: column 6 (rose); row 8: column 8 (lime); row 9: column 10 (stone); row 10: column 4 (teal); row 11: column 9 (peach).

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