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Queens #39 (November 3, 2026): solution and step-by-step

The 8×8 Medium puzzle from Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Play it first; the answer is folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Queens #39 was the 8×8 medium board of Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Our deduction solver, the same one behind the hint button, finishes it in 26 steps without guessing: 22 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 none need a “what if” check. The regions range from 3 to 11 cells; the smallest is gold, and small regions are where the board opens up.

Queens #39 in numbers

Board8×8, Medium
Regions8, from 3 to 11 cells
Deduction steps26
Rule steps (neighbours, satisfied lines, last cell)22
Confinement steps4
“What if” contradictions0
Solver difficulty score8
How to start Queens #39: 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 8. 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 6 cells. The gold region and the sky region all fit inside columns 7 and 8, so those 2 columns' queens are theirs — every other cell in columns 7 and 8 is crossed out.

  3. Queen at row 7, column 6. The lime region has only one free cell left — that must be its queen.

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

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

  6. Cross out 5 cells. Column 6 already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

  7. Cross out 3 cells. Every free cell of row 8 is in the rose region, so that region's queen must be in row 8 — its other cells are crossed out.

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

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

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

  11. Cross out 4 cells. The orchid region already has its queen — the rest of it is crossed out.

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

14 more steps follow the same pattern until the 8 queens are placed.

Queens #39 solution

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

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