Queendom Puzzle

Aired: Jun 13, 2023

Episode: 1

Each individual contestant is pre-assigned a rank from 1 to 4 based on their previous career performance in the K-pop industry, which is determined by their number of wins on music shows and the number of album sales at release (individual or group). Each contestant is given the potential to self-evaluate one another based on a performance by voting the said performer up or down out of a total of 27 votes; the dominant voting score will determine whether the performer increases in rank or moves down.

Aired: Jun 20, 2023

Episode: 2

Each individual contestant is pre-assigned a rank from 1 to 4 based on their previous career performance in the K-pop industry, which is determined by their number of wins on music shows and the number of album sales at release (individual or group). Each contestant is given the potential to self-evaluate one another based on a performance by voting the said performer up or down out of a total of 27 votes; the dominant voting score will determine whether the performer increases in rank or moves down.

Aired: Jun 27, 2023

Episode: 3

Each team is evaluated by 'Expert Judges of Queendom Puzzle'; a panel of judges made up of experts within the K-pop industry. Their goal is to select one team performance between each signal song ("Charismatic" or "Snap") based on who makes the best team. Members of the winning team will be awarded 10,000 points each as a benefit.
Additionally, the judges can select one contestant from the winning team who performed the best, called the 'MVP'. The MVP will gain the right to 'puzzle' the next battle as a special benefit.

Aired: Jul 4, 2023

Episode: 4

The other teams try to take first place from Team "Nxde" to win the Re-mix Battle and receive the 20,000 points. The contestants would be split into Team Queendom and Team Puzzle immediately after the Remix Battle performances, starting from contestant Yeonhee being picked into Team Queendom and contestant Kei being picked into Team Puzzle, with the rest of the contestants choosing Team Queendom or Team Puzzle afterwards. As part of winning the Remix Battle, contestants Jihan, Dohwa, Nana and Suyun can bring contestant(s) from one team to another. Lastly, if one team does not have 13 contestants, through voting among the team with more than 13 contestants, contestant(s) would move to the team without 13 contestants.
For this battle, each team would perform 3 rounds of vocal-rap songs, and 2 rounds of dance songs.
For the vocal-rap songs, 3-4 songs would be shown, and each team will pick one song on a first come, first serve basis.
For the dance songs, they would be newly produced songs, and the selection of the songs would be through a dance battle between the two teams; the winning team would get to pick 2 of the 4 songs available first, while the remaining 2 songs not picked would automatically be allocated to the other team.

For each round, the audience would vote for the better performance of the 2. The team that has the higher total score after the 5 rounds would take the battle, and the members of the winning team would each get a benefit of 20,000 votes. The winning team would only be revealed in Episode 7, which would be a special live broadcast.

Aired: Jul 11, 2023

Episode: 5

The All-Rounder Battle consists of three rounds of singing and rapping and two rounds of dancing. After deciding on the songs, combinations, and orders, Team Puzzle and Team Queendom begin to compete to win the All-Rounder Battle with the 20,000-point benefit at stake.

Aired: Jul 18, 2023

Episode: 6

The result of Round 3 of Vocal and Rap is revealed, and the dance battle they had to choose the songs for the Dance rounds is shown. After two rounds of Dance, the All-Rounder Battle finally comes to an end. The final results will be revealed in a live broadcast on July 25, and 5 members will be eliminated.

Aired: Jul 25, 2023

Episode: 7

The Semi-Final voting assembly-choice voting began from July 4 to 7, 23:59 (KST), via the Mnet Plus application, where voters listen to snippets of three newly produced songs and for each song, they pick 7 contestants they want to put in. The three teams would then be formed based on the votes. The teams would then subsequently record parts for the songs. Subsequently, elimination of 5 contestants would be conducted on Episode 7 (special live broadcast), such that each song would only have 7 contestants. The eventual performances of the three songs would be held in the Semi-Final, which is Episode 9 (live broadcast). After the Semi-Finals, 7 contestants would be eliminated.

Aired: Aug 1, 2023

Episode: 8

The members are divided into four teams: Teams Queen, Dom, Pu, Zzle. They visit the editing rooms in Mnet Studio (CJ E&M Center) and reminisce about their previous performances while watching them. And Zoa and Ji Woo narrate Queendom Puzzle Highlight. Finally, the interim results of the Global Combination Voting for EL7Z U+P are revealed.

Aired: Aug 8, 2023

Episode: 9

The Semi-Final voting assembly-choice voting began from July 4 to 7, 23:59 (KST), via the Mnet Plus application, where voters listen to snippets of three newly produced songs and for each song, they pick 7 contestants they want to put in. The three teams would then be formed based on the votes. The teams would then subsequently record parts for the songs. Subsequently, elimination of 5 contestants would be conducted on Episode 7 (special live broadcast), such that each song would only have 7 contestants. The eventual performances of the three songs would be held in the Semi-Final, which is Episode 9 (live broadcast). After the Semi-Finals, 7 contestants would be eliminated.

Aired: Aug 15, 2023

Episode: 10

The members of the Queendom Puzzle group will be named EL7Z U+P will be revealed.