LinkedIn Queens puzzle #903 for October 20, 2026: spoiler-free hints first, then the complete solution when you want it.
This is an earlier Queens puzzle. Latest Queens Answer: #926 (Nov 12)
Need a little help?
Reveal hints one at a time to avoid spoilers.
Reveal Hint #1Hint #1
Focus on the small orange, blue, green, grey and yellow regions before the large purple region. Each small region has only two possible cells.
Reveal Hint #2Hint #2
The green queen is at R4C2. This fixes the grey queen at R5C4 and the yellow queen at R7C3.
Reveal Hint #3Hint #3
The orange queen is at R1C6 and the blue queen is at R2C8. The purple region takes its queen at R3C5.
Ready for the answer?
Place one queen at a time, or reveal the whole board.
Reveal Full SolutionHide Solution
Queens #903 Solution
Queen positions (row, column): R1C6, R2C8, R3C5, R4C2, R5C4, R6C1, R7C3, R8C7.
How to Solve Queens #903
Count rows from the top and columns from the left. Place one queen at each of these coordinates:
- Row 1: column 6.
- Row 2: column 8.
- Row 3: column 5.
- Row 4: column 2.
- Row 5: column 4.
- Row 6: column 1.
- Row 7: column 3.
- Row 8: column 7.
With the green queen at R4C2, the grey region must use row 5, and the yellow region must use column 3. The complete placement uses each of the eight rows, columns and regions exactly once. No pair of queens touches, including diagonally.
Share this puzzle
Help a friend who is stuck. The answer stays hidden until they reveal it.