Queens Daily #11 — August 29, 2026
Daily #11 is a Saturday board, which makes it a 10×10: the expert board in the weekly schedule. This is the exact board published on August 29, 2026 — it is regenerated from its date, so the regions and the single solution are identical to what everyone played that day. The 10 regions on this board range from 1 cell to 31; the largest is the one on the left edge (rows 1–8, columns 1–6). 2 regions start out inside a single row or column, which is where line ownership comes from. The opening gives you 2 forced crowns before the board asks for a two-line counting argument.
Where this board sits in the week
- Monday — 7×7, the gentlest board of the week.
- Tuesday & Wednesday — 8×8, the everyday size.
- Thursday & Friday — 9×9, a real mid-game.
- Saturday — 10×10, the expert board. ← Daily #11
- Sunday — 8×8, a recovery board.
Hints for Daily #11 (no full solution)
These hints tell you where to look on this particular board and why, in the order a careful solver would get there. They stop well short of the answer. Open only as many as you need.
Hint 1: Where to start
There is a one-cell region toward the top left, at row 1, column 4. A region must hold a crown, so that one is free — place it and cross out its row, its column and the ring of cells around it.
Hint 2: The next thing to notice (after about 2 moves)
Focus on the cells around the 3-cell region toward the top right (rows 2–3, columns 9–10). It has so few open cells that a crown placed next to it could cover all of them at once. Any cell that would do that can be crossed out — there are 3 such cells on this 10×10.
Hint 3: The step that unlocks the rest (after about 5 moves)
Take the 4-cell region in the bottom-right corner (rows 9–10, columns 9–10) and the 3-cell region toward the bottom right (rows 9–10, columns 7–8) together. Their open cells fit entirely inside rows 9 and 10 — 2 regions in 2 rows — so those rows are fully spoken for. Cross out every other region's cells there (7 of them).
Rows are counted from the top and columns from the left, starting at 1. Still stuck after that? The Hint button under the board checks your crowns and places the next correct one, and the strategy guide explains each technique named above.
Compared with the day before
Yesterday's board (Friday, August 28) was a 9×9, so today is a step up in size: one more crown to find and 19 more cells to keep track of. It also asks for more: yesterday's hardest step was line ownership (a region that fits inside one row or column), while today needs a two-line counting argument. The opening is more generous: 2 forced crowns before the first real technique, against 1 yesterday.
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