LinkedIn Queens #768 Answer & Analysis

The start board already places queens at R1C1 and R2C3. From there, mark the surrounding squares as unsafe and remove any cell that would touch either queen horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This immediately clears the top-left corner and narrows the opening rows.

With the left side constrained, row 3 can only work if its queen sits in the blue band rather than the blocked green and gray cells. That points to R3C5 as the cleanest fit, because it preserves the remaining rows and keeps the color-region count balanced.

Once the top half is under control, the right side of the board starts to lock in. The red region on row 4 is forced into R4C8, and the orange region on row 5 then settles at R5C6. These two placements keep every row, column, and region on track.

The brown region in row 6 is forced to R6C4, and that helps the lime region below it resolve to R7C2. After these placements, the remaining columns are much easier to finish because the board is already one queen per row in progress.

The last open region is the gray block on the bottom-right side. R8C7 is the remaining queen placement that fits the row, column, and region rules without touching the existing queens. That completes the solved board for today's LinkedIn Queens puzzle.