Queens Daily #51 — October 8, 2026
Daily #51 is a Thursday board, which makes it a 9×9: a real mid-game in the weekly schedule. This is the exact board published on October 8, 2026 — it is regenerated from its date, so the regions and the single solution are identical to what everyone played that day. The 9 regions on this board range from 1 cell to 22; the largest is the one in the top-left corner (rows 1–6, columns 1–5). 3 regions start out inside a single row or column, which is where line ownership comes from. The opening gives you 4 forced crowns before the board asks for blocking cells (spots that would leave a neighbor with nowhere to go).
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. ← Daily #51
- Saturday — 10×10, the expert board.
- Sunday — 8×8, a recovery board.
Hints for Daily #51 (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 in the top-left corner, at row 1, column 1. 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 4 moves)
The 22-cell region in the top-left corner (rows 1–6, columns 1–5) has all of its open cells in row 4. That row's crown therefore belongs to this region, and every other cell in row 4 can be crossed out — 1 cell in one go.
Hint 3: The step that unlocks the rest (after about 9 moves)
Focus on the cells around the 4-cell region toward the bottom left (rows 8–9, columns 3–4). 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 2 such cells on this 9×9.
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 (Wednesday, October 7) was an 8×8, so today is a step up in size: one more crown to find and 17 more cells to keep track of. It also asks for more: yesterday's hardest step was a chain reaction of forced crowns, while today needs blocking cells (spots that would leave a neighbor with nowhere to go). The opening is stingier: 4 forced crowns before the first real technique, against 8 yesterday.
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