LinkedIn Queens — Play It Free, Without the Daily Limit

If LinkedIn Queens is the best two minutes of your workday, you already know the problem: you solve the board, the timer stops, and that's it until tomorrow. This page is for the rest of the day. The game above follows exactly the same rules, but it needs no login and it never runs out — finish one board and the next is a tap away. To be clear about what this is: an independent place to play the same kind of puzzle, not LinkedIn's own page, and not connected to LinkedIn in any way.

The rules are the same ones you already know

The Queens game LinkedIn launched in 2024 is built on a much older pencil puzzle called Star Battle, and the rule set is small enough to fit in four lines. Every board here obeys all four, with nothing added and nothing taken away:

• One crown per color region. Each colored area holds exactly one queen.
• One crown per row.
• One crown per column.
• No two crowns touch — not side by side, and not diagonally either.

The controls will feel familiar too: tap once for an ✕, tap again for a crown. So everything you have learned from the official game carries straight over — the habit of starting with the smallest region, spotting a color that is trapped inside a single row, ruling out the ring of cells around a placed queen. And every board here is checked by a solver before you see it, so there is always exactly one solution and you never have to guess. If you want the rules with worked examples, the how-to-play guide takes about two minutes.

Why play here as well

• No one-a-day limit. Unlimited mode builds a brand-new board every time you ask for one, in four sizes from a gentle 6×6 to a 10×10 that will take real work.
• No login. There is no account, no feed and no notifications — useful if you would rather not open a social network just to play a puzzle.
• Past boards stay playable. This site has its own daily puzzle, the same for every player, and each one is kept in the archive. Miss a day, or want another go at a board that beat you? It is still there.
• Hints that teach. The hint button first checks your work: if a crown is wrong, it points at that crown. Only when your board is clean does it place a correct one.
• A timer and spoiler-free sharing. Your time runs on every board, and the share button copies a short result — time and hints used, never the solution — that you can paste anywhere.

LinkedIn Queens vs. playing here

One thing the official version has that this site does not: your colleagues. Inside LinkedIn Games, Queens sits next to Tango, Zip and the rest, and its leaderboard is made of people you actually know. That is a good reason to keep playing it there. This site is for the hours in between.

How to keep playing Queens outside LinkedIn

Most people who land here typed something like "Queens LinkedIn" into a search box right after finishing the day's board, looking for more. Here is a routine that works well:

1. Do your official daily as usual. Your streak there is untouched by anything you do here.
2. Open unlimited mode and choose a size. 8×8 is closest to an average official board. Drop to 6×6 for a thirty-second warm-up, or go up to 10×10 when you want a puzzle that fights back.
3. Add a second daily. Today's board on this site is shared by everyone who plays it, so it works for a group chat exactly the way the official one does — and nobody in the chat needs an account.
4. Work through the archive. Every earlier daily is listed by date in the archive. Mondays are the easiest boards of the week and Saturdays the hardest, so you can pick a replay to suit your mood.

The practice pays off where it counts. Speed in this puzzle comes from recognizing shapes, not from calculating, and a few unlimited boards a day will show you more shapes in a week than the one-a-day game does in a month. The strategy guide names the patterns worth learning first.

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