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Crowns

Place one crown in every row, column, and color region — none touching.

How to play

  1. Exactly one crown goes in each row, each column, and each colored region.
  2. No two crowns may touch — not even diagonally.
  3. Place every crown to solve the board.

Controls

Techniques

Single-cell region

A color region reduced to one open cell must hold its crown. Place it, then X everything that crown touches.

Row and column sweeps

Each crown claims its whole row and column. After every placement, X the full row, column, and the diagonal neighbors — the next forced cell usually appears immediately.

Region shadows

If every open cell of a region sits in the same row or column, that row or column's crown MUST be there — X it everywhere else, even before you know the exact cell.

Example

. 👑 . .
. . . 👑
👑 . . .
. . 👑 .

One 👑 per row, column, and colour — and none may touch.

Tip · Find a row, column, or region with only one open cell, then mark the squares its crown rules out.

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