- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Array, Backtracking, leetcode-51, O(n^2 * n!), O(n), LintCode, O(n * n!), Medium, EPI
Problem
The n-queens puzzle is the problem of placing n
queens on an n x n
chessboard such that no two queens attack each other.
Given an integer n
, return all distinct solutions to the n-queens puzzle. You may return the answer in any order.
Each solution contains a distinct board configuration of the n-queens' placement, where 'Q'
and '.'
both indicate a queen and an empty space, respectively.
Example 1:
Input: n = 4 Output: [[".Q..","...Q","Q...","..Q."],["..Q.","Q...","...Q",".Q.."]] Explanation: There exist two distinct solutions to the 4-queens puzzle as shown above
Example 2:
Input: n = 1 Output: [["Q"]]
Constraints:
1 <= n <= 9