Queens Puzzle Maker
Design your own Queens puzzle by painting color regions onto the grid. Each region, row, and column must contain exactly one queen.
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What Is the Queens Puzzle Maker?
The Queens Puzzle Maker is a free online tool for creating custom Queens game puzzles (also known as Star Battle puzzles). Design your own colored regions on a grid, and our system automatically validates that your puzzle has exactly one unique solution. Once validated, you get a shareable link so anyone can play your creation.
Whether you call it Queens, Star Battle, or Speed Stars — it's the same addictive logic puzzle. Place one queen (or star) in each row, column, and color region, with no two queens touching diagonally. This puzzle editor lets you design your own levels and contribute to the Queens community.
How It Works
1. Design Regions
Choose a grid size and paint colored regions by clicking or dragging. Each region will need exactly one queen.
2. Validate
Hit submit and we'll check that your puzzle has exactly one unique solution. If not, we'll show you why.
3. Share
Get a unique link to your puzzle. Share it with friends, on social media, or challenge the community.
Why Create Your Own Queens Puzzles?
The best way to understand a puzzle is to build one. Designing Queens puzzles — whether you think of them as Queens game levels or Star Battle grids — teaches you how the logic works from the inside out. You'll discover which region shapes create interesting deductions and which ones lead to trivial or ambiguous solutions.
Community-created puzzles are what keep logic puzzle games alive. By contributing your own levels, you're joining a tradition that goes back to Star Battle puzzle competitions and has grown through online Queens game communities. Every puzzle you create is a new challenge for someone else to enjoy.
Ready to learn the craft? Read our guide to building great Queens puzzles, or learn about the Star Battle connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Queens puzzle?
A Queens puzzle (also known as Star Battle) is a logic puzzle where you place exactly one queen (or star) in each row, column, and colored region of a grid. No two queens can touch each other, including diagonally. Grid sizes range from 5x5 for beginners to 12x12 for experts.
How do I make a Queens puzzle?
Use the puzzle maker above to paint colored regions onto a grid. Select a color from the palette, then click or drag on cells to assign them to that region. Once every cell is filled and all regions are used, hit Submit to validate that your puzzle has exactly one unique solution.
What makes a valid Queens puzzle?
A valid Queens puzzle must have a grid where every cell belongs to a colored region, the number of regions equals the grid size (e.g. 7 regions for a 7x7 grid), each region is contiguous (connected), and the puzzle has exactly one unique solution. Our builder validates all of this automatically.
Can I share puzzles I create?
Yes! When you submit a valid puzzle, you get a unique link that anyone can use to play your puzzle directly in their browser. You can share this link on social media, in messages, or anywhere else.
What is Star Battle and how is it related to Queens?
Star Battle is the original name for this type of logic puzzle, popularized in puzzle competitions. The Queens game is essentially the same puzzle — place one star (or queen) per row, column, and region with no adjacent placements. Our puzzle maker works for both Queens and Star Battle puzzles.
What grid sizes can I use?
You can create puzzles from 5x5 (5 regions, great for beginners) up to 12x12 (12 regions, extremely challenging). Use the board size selector to choose your grid size. Larger grids are harder to design but more rewarding to solve.
Is the Queens puzzle maker free?
Yes, the Queens Puzzle Maker is completely free to use. Create as many puzzles as you want, share them with friends, and challenge others to solve them. No account or download required.