Daily Star Battle

About Daily Star Battle

Star Battle, which the site notes is also known as Queens, is a grid split into outlined regions. In a 1-star puzzle every row, every column and every region gets exactly one star; in a 2-star puzzle each gets two, and so on. Two stars may never sit next to each other, including diagonally. That last rule does most of the work: each star you place rules out the eight cells around it.

Puzzle-star-battle.com offers sizes from 5x5 with one star up to 14x14 with three, plus shapeless versions without regions. The Special Daily sits above all of these as a 4-star puzzle; the one for 2 October 2026 was 17 by 17. It is the same grid for everyone that day, dated on the page, and the site also runs a 5-star weekly and a 6-star monthly special. Options let you auto-place crosses around each star and colour the regions, and the site shows ads unless you become a patron, which also unlocks the last 30 daily puzzles.

If the 8x8 one-star grid of Queens on LinkedIn has become too quick, this is the long version: same rules, more stars, and a grid where you have to count how many stars a group of regions must hold before anything falls into place. It suits solvers who like a single deep puzzle over a coffee rather than a race.

How to play Daily Star Battle

1. Open puzzle-star-battle.com and choose 4★ Special Daily Star Battle from the list of puzzles.
2. Check the star count: in the daily puzzle every row, column and outlined region must end with four stars.
3. Click cells to mark them as a star or an X; the toolbar can cycle through star, cross and blank or fix one of them, and an option places Xs around each new star for you.
4. Keep every star apart from the others: no two stars can touch side to side or corner to corner.
5. When every row, column and region holds four stars, press Done (or Enter) to check the grid and stop the timer.

Tips

• Look for small regions first: a region that is only a few cells wide can hold its stars in very few ways, and the cells next to it lose candidates.
• Count across groups: if three regions sit entirely inside three rows, those rows' stars all belong to those regions, so every other cell in the rows is an X.
• Two stars in neighbouring cells are never allowed, so a 2x2 block can hold at most one star; split narrow strips into 2x2 blocks to count the most stars they can hold.
• Practise on the 10x10 two-star and 14x14 three-star sizes before taking on the four-star daily.

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