Getting your game ready…
Place a queen counter in every outlined region of the six-by-six board. Each row and column also needs exactly one queen. Tap a square to cycle between undecided, queen and excluded. Region borders and marks help you compare areas without relying on colour alone.
Queens cannot touch, including at a diagonal corner. This is a region puzzle: distant queens on the same long diagonal are allowed. Do not apply chess’s full diagonal attack rule. A placed queen rules out its whole row and column plus neighbouring squares.
Finish when all six regions, rows and columns have one queen and no pair touches. Exclusions are planning marks. Choose from six fixed boards. Undo reverses a mark; Restart restores that board. Hint suggests a rule without placing a queen. There is no clock.
Start with a region whose possible queen places lie in one row or column. That row or column must give its queen to this region, ruling out places outside it. A region with just one available square gives a stronger immediate placement.
Before placing, check which squares it removes from nearby regions. A position that looks convenient can leave a narrow region with nowhere to put its queen. Count the surviving places after each exclusion rather than guessing from the largest open area.
Carved crown counters and outlined regions give this version its shape. The familiar queen name does not bring every chess rule with it: rows, columns, regions and touching neighbours are the complete placement constraints. Distant diagonal pairs are part of the legal possibilities. Completion badges and your puzzle selection are remembered; unfinished changes are not.