Games like Queens: daily grid logic puzzles to play next

Start with Star Battle. Queens is a one-star version of it: the same rule of one per row, column and region with no two touching, and only the name changed. The Special Daily Star Battle on puzzle-star-battle.com gives everyone one large grid a day, and it asks for more than one star per region, so it plays like a longer, harder Queens.

If you play Queens on LinkedIn, the site's other dailies sit next to it and share its leaderboard among your connections. Tango is the closest in spirit: a small grid of suns and moons where every row and column must balance and no three can line up. Zip is a path puzzle, one line through every cell, touching the numbers in order. Patches cuts the grid into shapes from clues, and Mini Sudoku is a 6x6 sudoku that takes two or three minutes. All four are quick, the same length as a Queens.

For the same feeling of reasoning about regions, the puzzle sites that publish one large special grid a day are the next step. Norinori asks for exactly two shaded cells in each region; LITS asks for one four-cell shape in each region, joined into one area. Binairo is the bigger, older relative of Tango. Tents and Light Up are about placement with a no-touching rule, like the crowns in Queens. 0h n0 from Q42 is a small dot puzzle with a free daily set. Royal Family from CoffeeFirst keeps the coloured zones of Queens but asks you to place six different chess pieces, one per zone, with none attacking another.

If you want a short daily habit, add Tango and Zip to your Queens. If you want a longer weekend solve, the daily Star Battle and Norinori grids are larger and take more patience, and none of them needs any guessing.