Updated for Monday, April 27, 2026
Stuck on today’sLinkedIn Queens?
Progressive hints that unlock by technique, not by giving the answer. Plus today’s daily puzzle in our archive — same logic rules, replayable, with a full solution reveal at the bottom for when you really need it.
Independent puzzles in the LinkedIn Queens style. We can’t republish LinkedIn’s exact daily puzzle — but the techniques here apply to every LinkedIn Queens puzzle, and our daily puzzle is right here below.
Today’s puzzle
Play it first, then read the hints.
Our independent daily for Monday, April 27, 2026. 3 grid sizes: 8×8, 9×9, 10×10.
Progressive hints
Four levels, smallest help first.
Each level reveals one technique. Open them in order, and most days you’ll never need level four.
01Forced singletons first
Forced placement
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Forced singletons first
Forced placement
Before you reach for harder logic, check every colored region. If a region has exactly one cell that doesn’t conflict with an existing queen, the queen goes there. Same for rows and columns. Most LinkedIn Queens puzzles open with two or three of these.
02Eliminate by row, column, region
Constraint propagation
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Eliminate by row, column, region
Constraint propagation
Once a queen is placed, it kills its entire row, column, and the diagonals immediately around it. Mark those cells off in your head (or with the X marker tool). After two or three queens, look again for newly-forced singletons in regions you already scanned.
03Spot the diagonal-touch trap
Adjacency reasoning
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Spot the diagonal-touch trap
Adjacency reasoning
The hardest LinkedIn Queens puzzles use the no-diagonal-touching rule to bait you. If two regions are tightly packed and their only legal cells touch diagonally, those regions are mutually-exclusive — one of them is forced.
04Hypothesize one cell, test for collapse
Hypothetical chain
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Hypothesize one cell, test for collapse
Hypothetical chain
When deduction stalls, pick a region with two candidates. Mentally place a queen in candidate A and ask: does any other region now have zero legal cells? If yes, candidate A is impossible. This is the technique LinkedIn’s hardest dailies require.
Solution
Spoiler-safe by default.
We can’t republish LinkedIn’s exact puzzle, but the solution to our daily for Monday, April 27, 2026 is below — click to reveal.
8×8Today’s 8×8 solution
8 colored regions · click to reveal
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Today’s 8×8 solution
8 colored regions · click to reveal
Solving hint for this size
Start by looking for any colored region that has only one or two empty cells. Those are forced placements.
Open the playable boardThe complete solution will appear inside the playable board after you click Reveal Solution from the in-game menu — that flow preserves your option to keep solving.
9×9Today’s 9×9 solution
9 colored regions · click to reveal
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Today’s 9×9 solution
9 colored regions · click to reveal
Solving hint for this size
On 9×9, scan for two-cell regions first. Adjacent two-cell regions often eliminate each other's neighbors via the diagonal rule.
Open the playable boardThe complete solution will appear inside the playable board after you click Reveal Solution from the in-game menu — that flow preserves your option to keep solving.
10×10Today’s 10×10 solution
10 colored regions · click to reveal
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Today’s 10×10 solution
10 colored regions · click to reveal
Solving hint for this size
On 10×10 boards, look for regions hugging the edge — they typically have fewer escape routes once you fix the first three queens.
Open the playable boardThe complete solution will appear inside the playable board after you click Reveal Solution from the in-game menu — that flow preserves your option to keep solving.
Today FAQ
Why not just show LinkedIn’s actual today puzzle?+
LinkedIn's puzzles are their intellectual property. We can't republish them. What we can offer: the same techniques apply to LinkedIn's daily, plus our independent daily right above with full hints and solution.
Will the hints work on the actual LinkedIn puzzle?+
Yes. The four techniques are universal to the Queens game format — forced singletons, constraint propagation, diagonal-adjacency reasoning, and hypothetical chains. They apply identically to LinkedIn's daily.
Does this page update every day?+
Yes — the date stamp, today's puzzle preview, and yesterday's link all update automatically. Today is Monday, April 27, 2026.
Why are the hints staged into levels?+
Most users don’t actually want the answer — they want the smallest hint that unsticks them. Level 1 unsticks ~60% of cases. Levels 3 and 4 are reserved for the puzzles that genuinely need hypothetical reasoning.
Where’s the actual solution?+
The fully-rendered board solution lives inside the playable game widget above. Click Reveal Solution from the in-game menu when you’re ready.