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Queens #37 (November 1, 2026): solution and step-by-step

The 11×11 Hard puzzle from Sunday, November 1, 2026. Play it first; the answer is folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Queens #37 was the 11×11 hard board of Sunday, November 1, 2026. Our deduction solver, the same one behind the hint button, finishes it in 41 steps without guessing: 30 follow straight from the rules (a queen's neighbours, a line that already has its queen, a line with one free cell left), 9 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 4 to 26 cells; the smallest is sky, and small regions are where the board opens up.

Queens #37 in numbers

Board11×11, Hard
Regions11, from 4 to 26 cells
Deduction steps41
Rule steps (neighbours, satisfied lines, last cell)30
Confinement steps9
“What if” contradictions2
Solver difficulty score31
How to start Queens #37: 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 7 cells. Every free cell of the sky region is in column 11, so that region's queen must be there — the rest of column 11 is crossed out.

  2. Cross out 12 cells. The lime region and the rose region all fit inside columns 9 and 10, so those 2 columns' queens are theirs — every other cell in columns 9 and 10 is crossed out.

  3. Queen at row 4, column 8. The mint region has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

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

  5. Cross out 7 cells. Row 4 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

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

  7. Cross out 6 cells. Every free cell of the stone region is in column 7, so that region's queen must be there — the rest of column 7 is crossed out.

  8. Cross out row 10, column 6. This cell touches every free cell of column 7 — a queen here would leave column 7 with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  9. Cross out row 6, column 10. This cell touches every free cell of column 11 — a queen here would leave column 11 with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  10. Cross out row 7, column 9. This cell touches every free cell of the lime region — a queen here would leave the lime region with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  11. Cross out row 3, column 2. A queen here would leave no room for a queen in row 2 — so it's crossed out.

  12. Cross out row 8, column 9. A queen here would leave no room for a queen in column 10 — so it's crossed out.

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

Queens #37 solution

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

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