Guide
How to solve Kings
Kings is a daily logic puzzle in Crux. The board is split into coloured regions. Place exactly one crown in every row, every column and every region, and never let two crowns touch, not even at a corner. If you play Queens on LinkedIn, the rules will feel familiar.
Read the board before placing a crown
Start with the shapes of the regions. A small region, or one squeezed into a single row or column, has few places for its crown, and that is usually the place to begin.
For any square you are considering, ask three questions: which row would this crown use, which column, and which region would it complete? Then check the eight squares around it.
Use exclusions as information
Tap once to mark a square you have ruled out. When a crown is fixed, its row, its column, its region and every square touching it are out. Marking those often leaves a region with only one possible square.
You can also reason without placing anything. If every open square of a region lies in one row, that row's crown must come from that region, so every other square in the row can be marked out. The same works for columns, and for two regions that share the same two rows.
Separate a possibility from a deduction
A square that looks right is not necessarily forced. A deduction explains why every other option fails. When you are stuck, go back to the smallest region and see what you can rule out, rather than placing a crown by feel. Every Kings board in Crux can be solved by logic alone.
More logic puzzles like this: games like LinkedIn Queens and Zip.
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