Queens Grid

Queens Puzzle Archive

Every daily board since the first one, 316 puzzles and counting. Nothing is retired: each page keeps its board and its step-by-step solution, so you can go back and play any day you missed.

How the daily board is chosen

Each date maps to one board by a fixed rule, so the puzzle for a given day is the same for every player and stays the same forever. An archived page will never quietly change under you.

Difficulty follows the week. Monday is a gentle 7×7 or 8×8; by Sunday the boards reach 15×15 and need the harder deductions. Averaged over a year that runs from about 12 deductions on a Monday to 21 on a Sunday. Within each weekday the board is drawn from a difficulty band of that size's own ranking, so a Wednesday is consistently a Wednesday rather than occasionally brutal.

With 15,333 distinct boards in the catalogue and one published per day, no puzzle repeats for over a decade — verified by replaying the schedule ten years forward.

Browse another way

Looking for a specific difficulty rather than a date? Every board is also sorted by size and difficulty, from 6×6 up to 15×15. The techniques page explains the deductions each board needs, and the rules take a minute to learn.