A place for every queen.

Easy Reinas — a 5 × 5 Queens puzzle

A small board to warm up with. Each queen follows from the last, so it is a good place to learn the rules.

Building today's Easy board…

What this level asks

Easy needs only two moves: cross out every square a queen rules out, and place a queen wherever a row, column or region has one square left.

Place exactly one queen in every row, every column and every colored region.
Queens cannot touch, not even at a corner. Queens farther apart may share a diagonal.
Use crosses to rule out squares and find a place for every queen.

For example, a queen two squares away along a diagonal is fine, but a queen on the very next diagonal square touches and is not allowed.

Every board has as many rows, columns and regions as queens. Each needs exactly one.

One queen in every row and every column. One queen in every region. Regions have a letter as well as a colour.

Not allowed: these two queens touch at a corner.

Allowed: these two queens share a long diagonal but do not touch.

Crosses are your own notes. The game never adds them for you.

On Expert, some steps ask you to try one queen in your head and rule it out when it breaks a rule. You never need to guess deeper than that.