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Queens #38 (November 2, 2026): solution and step-by-step

The 7×7 Medium puzzle from Monday, November 2, 2026. Play it first; the answer is folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Queens #38 was the 7×7 medium board of Monday, November 2, 2026. Our deduction solver, the same one behind the hint button, finishes it in 25 steps without guessing: 20 follow straight from the rules (a queen's neighbours, a line that already has its queen, a line with one free cell left), 5 come from confinement (a region squeezed into one row or column, or several regions sharing the same rows), and none need a “what if” check. The regions range from 4 to 11 cells; the smallest are lavender and mint, and small regions are where the board opens up.

Queens #38 in numbers

Board7×7, Medium
Regions7, from 4 to 11 cells
Deduction steps25
Rule steps (neighbours, satisfied lines, last cell)20
Confinement steps5
“What if” contradictions0
Solver difficulty score7
How to start Queens #38: 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 row 2, column 6. This cell touches every free cell of the gold region — a queen here would leave the gold region with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  2. Cross out row 1, column 2. This cell touches every free cell of the lavender region — a queen here would leave the lavender region with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  3. Cross out row 4, column 2. This cell touches every free cell of the mint region — a queen here would leave the mint region with no queen, so it's crossed out.

  4. Cross out 5 cells. The gold region, the lavender region and the coral region all fit inside rows 1, 2, 3, so those 3 rows' queens are theirs — every other cell in rows 1, 2, 3 is crossed out.

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

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

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

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

  9. Queen at row 3, column 7. Row 3 has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

  10. Cross out row 2, column 7. Queens can't touch, not even diagonally — the cells around this queen are crossed out.

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

  12. Cross out 2 cells. The gold region already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

13 more steps follow the same pattern until the 7 queens are placed.

Queens #38 solution

Queens by row: row 1: column 1 (lavender); row 2: column 5 (coral); row 3: column 7 (gold); row 4: column 3 (mint); row 5: column 6 (orchid); row 6: column 2 (sky); row 7: column 4 (lime).

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