SevenBlocks

Daily Queens Puzzle: One Crown per Row and Region

Crowns is a daily logic puzzle in the queens and star battle family. A 7×7 grid is split into seven coloured regions, and you place seven crowns so every row, column and region has exactly one.

How to play Crowns

1. Put exactly one crown in every row, every column and every coloured region.
2. No two crowns may touch, not even corner to corner.
3. Tap a square once to mark it with a dot (a note that no crown goes there), and twice for a crown. Drag to dot several squares at once.
4. Crowns that break a rule are marked in red. Each puzzle has exactly one solution, so you never need to guess.

Tips

• Start with the smallest regions: a region of two or three squares leaves few places for its crown.
• If a region lies entirely within one row or column, that row or column’s crown must be in it, so dot every other square there.
• Dot the eight squares around each crown you place: none of them can hold another.
• Look for groups: if two regions fit entirely within the same two rows, no other region can put a crown in those rows.

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