Thanks Simon for highlighting. I hope you all enjoy the games on LinkedIn, maybe better than morning coffee. Clarifying some things here, I didn't invent this genre or coin the name of Queens/Star Battle/other things. This is a Dutch puzzle style created by Hans Eendebak around 2003 and highlighted at the World Puzzle Championship that year. Similarly, I didn't invent Sudoku or a lot of other genres, but I do construct those puzzles in a hand-crafted way to make them interesting. With Queens, I wrote and/or edited a lot of hand-crafted, simple yet interesting one-star puzzles. Seeing many people add Queens into their daily routine, including casual solvers who don't do lots of logic puzzles, has been a great joy. For those who want to step up the challenge, we have some harder Queens and then many Star Battles at gmpuzzles. I'm more involved in the invention of Tango alongside making or editing the individual game boards. Tango is a design variation of some other symbol placement styles but with a cleaner set of rules to make a deeper game. But that is something to discuss further another time.
Yes!!! I've been doing Queens, Crossclimb and Pinpoint daily and now Tango ever since they dropped - Crossclimb I'm usually top 1%, but Tango and Queens can often be tossups.
So funny this appeared here. I’ve been playing this and i feel like I’ve gotten really good at these because of learning star battle from CTC! And yes the name bothers me, but that’s what linkedin decided to call it😂 Tango on LinkedIn is also fun
I have just started to do these, didn't know about them until Simon mentioned on the channel. Thank you for explaining the logic, I plan of applying the logic to future puzzles.
Speed tip: click on the cell and drag, it will mark all the cells. TBH these puzzles are the only reason I still use LinkedIn, otherwise it became a Facebook
The link takes me to a different puzzle. I assume because the video was filmed on a different day, and it's now showing today's puzzle. I recreated the grid from the video in an empty grid in Sven's software, and solved it there instead.
My pre-work "daily diet" - wordle/connections/strands/mini from NYT, one-up, minute cryptic and Rangsk's daily 6x6 , along with Hexcells infinite hard for the day's date - - and I guess, queens just got added! Can we play past games? I didn't see an archive link.
I have a *major* objection to this puzzle. The use of queens instead of kings seems nothing more than a viciously nasty Machiavellian ploy to mislead chess players with *zero* value to the puzzle itself. I restarted the puzzle twice thinking I’d made some careless mistake. Then when I reviewed the rules and noted it said queens don’t “touch” each other, it became apparent that the pieces were behaving like kings, not queens. Chess players are likely to be particularly prone to the misdirection, because most will be familiar with the 8 queens challenge, which this 9 queens puzzle falsely alludes to.
@@JS... I’d say the rook moves are covered by “place one in each row and column”. So the king can cover touch by king-move. Of course what to place could be anything: star, circle, x It’s just that the queen in particular is misleading, and detracts from away from being a logic puzzle towards a “trick-you” puzzle.
@@MasterHigure I think it's because it may be based on a very popular computer programming challenge where you put queens on a chess board so that they can't "kill" each other, it's called the n-queen problem!
@@Elezshar Yes, but in that puzzle, the restriction on the pieces is actually related the movement of queens. In this puzzle the restriction is based on the movement of kings. Which makes it strange to call them queens.
The name of this puzzle is very misleading. It screwed my logic up multiple times. There is a puzzle in chess involving queens placed on a chessboard that don't see each other.
Thanks Simon for highlighting. I hope you all enjoy the games on LinkedIn, maybe better than morning coffee.
Clarifying some things here, I didn't invent this genre or coin the name of Queens/Star Battle/other things. This is a Dutch puzzle style created by Hans Eendebak around 2003 and highlighted at the World Puzzle Championship that year. Similarly, I didn't invent Sudoku or a lot of other genres, but I do construct those puzzles in a hand-crafted way to make them interesting.
With Queens, I wrote and/or edited a lot of hand-crafted, simple yet interesting one-star puzzles. Seeing many people add Queens into their daily routine, including casual solvers who don't do lots of logic puzzles, has been a great joy. For those who want to step up the challenge, we have some harder Queens and then many Star Battles at gmpuzzles.
I'm more involved in the invention of Tango alongside making or editing the individual game boards. Tango is a design variation of some other symbol placement styles but with a cleaner set of rules to make a deeper game. But that is something to discuss further another time.
1m22s here, Although "Queens" is quite misleading name for this one
Totally new game for me, never seen before. Thank you for all your great puzzles.
I got stuck, since I thought the diagonal rule was for a full diagonal line. It was just for diagonally touching squares 😅
So it is just star battle...
I didn’t know people played them on LinkedIn but I started to play them in the Radio Times as they’ve started printing them in the last few months.
I enjoyed this a lot!
I've grow to love Tango in LinkedIn, too. They do have some fun puzzles.
Yes!!! I've been doing Queens, Crossclimb and Pinpoint daily and now Tango ever since they dropped - Crossclimb I'm usually top 1%, but Tango and Queens can often be tossups.
Really cool puzzle!
00:06:02. This was a fun short one.
that's so clever! I would like to see you play and deduct Turing Machine board game 🔥
I like this!
When do you have time to eat?
So funny this appeared here. I’ve been playing this and i feel like I’ve gotten really good at these because of learning star battle from CTC! And yes the name bothers me, but that’s what linkedin decided to call it😂
Tango on LinkedIn is also fun
I started doing these and have definitely incorporated everything I’ve learned from this channel into my strategy!
I have just started to do these, didn't know about them until Simon mentioned on the channel. Thank you for explaining the logic, I plan of applying the logic to future puzzles.
A new UA-cam short series - Queens in 3 minutes? :)
Loved the game and loved the approachability of this puzzle 😀! Had never heard of it before.
2:16 very fun ^^
this would be a great simon equivalent to wordle in a minute! haha
First time playing this, 6:24
My first start would have been r9c7. The red area is column 8, and the large one column 9. But I got a weird 34 second puzzle today with two givens...
Speed tip: click on the cell and drag, it will mark all the cells. TBH these puzzles are the only reason I still use LinkedIn, otherwise it became a Facebook
really liked it. took me a while to understand the logic since it was ages i did star battle, but it was a fun and nice little puzzle.
Short and sweet. Great for a quick feeling of success :D
No queen in the corner song !
The link takes me to a different puzzle. I assume because the video was filmed on a different day, and it's now showing today's puzzle.
I recreated the grid from the video in an empty grid in Sven's software, and solved it there instead.
I've added a version of the puzzle from the video to the Video Description now in case people want to try that one :)
@@CrackingTheCryptic How do you place the queen in the sven app?
Use the digit 1. And 2 for a "non-Queen".
@@CrackingTheCryptic Thanks!
Been loving Queens, happy to see you making a video about it.
3.50 for me. Have to get used to this.
Thanks Simon. You should absolutely consider doing something like Wordle in a Minute for Queens, as a UA-cam shorts. Thanks for the video!
Terrible time 😅 totally 🙄
Thank you
My pre-work "daily diet" - wordle/connections/strands/mini from NYT, one-up, minute cryptic and Rangsk's daily 6x6 , along with Hexcells infinite hard for the day's date - - and I guess, queens just got added!
Can we play past games? I didn't see an archive link.
I have a *major* objection to this puzzle.
The use of queens instead of kings seems nothing more than a viciously nasty Machiavellian ploy to mislead chess players with *zero* value to the puzzle itself.
I restarted the puzzle twice thinking I’d made some careless mistake.
Then when I reviewed the rules and noted it said queens don’t “touch” each other, it became apparent that the pieces were behaving like kings, not queens.
Chess players are likely to be particularly prone to the misdirection, because most will be familiar with the 8 queens challenge, which this 9 queens puzzle falsely alludes to.
Wouldn't rooks be the most apt piece? Kings don't see far enough (whole row/column). Regions add another wrinkle for the plain chess analogy.
@@JS... Rooks don't see diagonally.
@@AdblockAccount True, it's a combination of king and rook then, with region check.
@@JS... I’d say the rook moves are covered by “place one in each row and column”.
So the king can cover touch by king-move.
Of course what to place could be anything: star, circle, x
It’s just that the queen in particular is misleading, and detracts from away from being a logic puzzle towards a “trick-you” puzzle.
Why are they called queens, not kings?
Probably because he doesn't know much about chess, and apparently not about starbattle either, because then he would have called it that.
@@MasterHigure I think it's because it may be based on a very popular computer programming challenge where you put queens on a chess board so that they can't "kill" each other, it's called the n-queen problem!
The classic chess puzzle is about placing 8 queens on a chessboard.
@@Elezshar Yes, but in that puzzle, the restriction on the pieces is actually related the movement of queens. In this puzzle the restriction is based on the movement of kings. Which makes it strange to call them queens.
Yeah, I couldn't find the answer, because queen's diag is the whole diag. Seems this is only the 'next' diag, as in the king's movement.
Er . . . shouldn't this be called Kings?
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The name of this puzzle is very misleading. It screwed my logic up multiple times. There is a puzzle in chess involving queens placed on a chessboard that don't see each other.