Play hundreds of Queens-style puzzles free — no waiting for tomorrow. Speed Stars has the full daily archive plus 200 puzzles in packs from 5x5 to 12x12, over 1,500 in all. Solve one and the next unlocks right away.
1,500+ Queens-style puzzles. Free, no waiting for tomorrow.
The Queens puzzle is one of the most addictive daily games around: place one star in each row, column, and color region, with no two stars touching. But one a day goes fast, NYT's archive requires a Games subscription, and random grid generators can't match a curated puzzle. Speed Stars, the Queens-style game in PEMDAS, gives you more than 1,500 puzzles to play instead — free on the web, iOS, and Android.
Open the Speed Stars puzzle packs and pick where to start. The daily archive has every Speed Stars puzzle since December 2022, newest first. Eight more packs hold 25 puzzles each, sorted by grid size from 5x5 Beginner to 12x12 Master, so you can learn on small grids and work up. Finish one puzzle and the next unlocks immediately; your solve times are saved as you go.
Want queens instead of stars? Play the free Daily Queens Game in your browser, or make your own Queens puzzle with Queens Puzzle Maker and share it with friends. And when you need a change of pace, PEMDAS has three more daily puzzles below.
The Queens puzzle you know, with competition you'll love. Place one star per row, column, and color — timed and ranked globally. Your daily logic fix.
Play Speed Stars
Done with stars? Switch to words. Guess the daily 5-letter word with color-coded clues — your second puzzle of the day.
Play Speed Word
Slide letters into words for your third daily challenge. A spatial word puzzle that tests a completely different set of skills.
Play Word Slide
Round out your day with numbers. Slide tiles to complete math equations — your fourth and final daily puzzle.
Play Math SlideThe official Queens puzzle is one a day, and NYT's archive requires a subscription. Speed Stars uses the same rules, and you can play it as many times as you like: work back through the archive of every past daily puzzle, or pick a pack by grid size from 5x5 up to 12x12. That's over 1,500 puzzles, free.
Yes — the Speed Stars archive is free. It has every daily Speed Stars puzzle since December 2022, playable on the web, iOS, and Android. Solve one and the next puzzle unlocks right away.
Speed Stars uses the same rules as Queens: place exactly one star in each row, column, and color region of a grid. No two stars can touch, even diagonally. The game is timed, and your daily solve is ranked on a global leaderboard.
Besides the daily archive, Speed Stars has eight packs of 25 puzzles each, sorted by grid size: 5x5 Beginner, 6x6 Easy, 7x7 Medium, 8x8 Standard, 9x9 Challenging, 10x10 Hard, 11x11 Expert, and 12x12 Master. Start small to learn the rules, then work up to the big grids.
The core puzzle mechanic is the same — place one star per row, column, and color region. Speed Stars adds timing and global leaderboards, plus a free archive and puzzle packs so you're never stuck waiting for tomorrow.
PEMDAS also has three more daily puzzles: Speed Word (5-letter word guessing like Wordle), Word Slide (sliding word puzzle), and Math Slide (equation building). All free.
