Games like Queens: more daily logic for your habit

Queens works because it's small: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, a few minutes of pure deduction, and a reason to come back tomorrow. Here are more daily logic puzzles with that rhythm, starting with a tiny one you can try right here.

What makes a good daily logic habit

In LinkedIn's Queens you place one queen in every row, every column and every colored region, with no two queens touching, not even at the corners. It's a fresh board every day, and part of the fun is that your coworkers are solving the same one.

If that's what you love, the thing to look for isn't another queen puzzle. It's the habit:

• One shared puzzle a day, so there's something to compare and talk about.
• A short session that fits into a coffee break.
• Pure deduction, with one solution and no luck involved.
• A reason to return, like a streak or a week that gets harder.

Daily logic puzzles, side by side

Hence

A daily picture logic puzzle, free in any browser. Each row of the board holds one kind of picture, and small picture clues tell you which tiles share a column, which sit next to each other, and which can't. Like Queens, there's one shared puzzle a day, one solution, and no guessing. Unlike Queens, it isn't about placing pieces so they avoid each other. It's about working out where everything belongs from what the clues say, closer to a zebra puzzle than to a chessboard. There's a quick 4x4 for a couple of minutes and a 6x6 for a longer think, getting harder from Monday to Sunday, and your streak, best times and the characters you've earned are kept in your stats.

Tango and Zip

If you play Queens, you've likely seen LinkedIn's other daily puzzles beside it. Tango has you fill a grid with two symbols so the rules on the board all hold. Zip has you draw one path that passes through the numbers in order and covers the whole grid. Both are short and daily, in the same place as Queens.

Pips

The New York Times' first original logic puzzle, launched in August 2025. You fit dominoes onto a board so every condition on it is met, with easy, medium and hard puzzles each day.

Clues by Sam

A free daily deduction puzzle in the browser: twenty people in a grid, written clues, and you work out who is criminal and who is innocent, with no guessing. It's wordier than Queens and takes a little longer. See games like Clues by Sam for more in that style.

Why try one more?

Each of these exercises a different kind of reasoning. Queens and Tango are about patterns on a board. Pips is about fitting pieces under constraints. Hence and Clues by Sam are about chaining facts together, the kind of thinking in a classic zebra puzzle. Doing one of each a day is a nice spread, and none of them take long. If picture clues are new to you, picture logic puzzles explains how they read.