Royals (Puzzleship)

Royals uses the Star Battle rules with crowns in place of stars. Three rules apply to the same board at once: one royal per row, one per column and one per coloured region, and no royal may sit next to another in any of the eight directions. With so many demands on each cell there is little freedom, and the puzzle is about finding where it runs out.

The coloured regions do most of the work. A small region has to hold its royal somewhere in a cramped space, which can rule out a row or column before you place anything. A region lying entirely in one row claims that row's royal. Players of LinkedIn's Queens will know the feel, since Queens uses the same family of rules.

Puzzleship publishes six boards of Royals a day, graded from very easy to ultra hard. Each day's boards are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and they change at 13:00 UTC. The page says new boards come at midnight in your own time zone, but each day's set is scheduled for 13:00 UTC, so at 02:10 UTC on 20 October 2026 the 19 October boards were still up. Earlier days stay playable in the archive, and a solved board counts toward a streak, which you sign in to keep. Puzzleship's footer names Brainzil, LLC as its company. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.