Star Battle (CleverGoat)
Place one star in every row, column and colour region on CleverGoat's daily grid.
Every day: One Star Battle grid a day, the same for every player: place stars so each row, column and coloured region holds one. Past puzzles are in an archive. New puzzle: Midnight US Eastern Time.
CleverGoat's Star Battle is a daily logic puzzle on a grid split into coloured regions. You place stars so that every row, every column and every region has exactly one, and no two stars touch. A new grid arrives each day on US Eastern time, alongside CleverGoat's word games.
About Star Battle (CleverGoat)
Star Battle is the classic grid puzzle behind LinkedIn's Queens. The board is divided into coloured regions, and you place stars so that each row, each column and each region contains one star, with no two stars touching, not even at a corner. Every puzzle has a single solution that can be reached by logic alone.
CleverGoat publishes one Star Battle grid a day, the same for everyone. The site counts down to the next puzzle on New York time and keeps an archive of past days, like its other daily games. CleverGoat is best known for word games such as Word Grid, Stacked, Categories, CrossHerd and Flipple; Star Battle is one of its logic games. The site shows ads, with an ad-free subscription available.
It suits players who solve Queens every morning and want a second region puzzle from a different maker.
How to play Star Battle (CleverGoat)
- Open starbattle.clevergoat.com to load today's grid.
- Tap a cell to place a star; mark cells that cannot hold one.
- Keep exactly one star in every row, column and colour region.
- Make sure no two stars touch, including diagonally.
- Fill the grid to solve it, then play past days from the archive.
Tips
- Start with the smallest region; its star has few possible cells.
- If two regions sit entirely within two rows, the other cells of those rows are empty.
- Each star rules out all eight neighbours, so mark them straight away.
Questions
When is there a new CleverGoat Star Battle?
Once a day, on US Eastern time.
Is it like LinkedIn's Queens?
Yes. Queens uses the same rules with queens instead of stars.
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