i don't know which piece is the king and which the queen

basically I have a chess board at home and I think the queen is way higher than the king and the shape confuses me

Looks like a queen and a bishop

Q. What’s the best thing about King?

A: I don’t know....but his crown is a big Plus.

The piece on the left is a Queen and the piece on the right is a Bishop.

Helpful hint --> a King will usually be larger in size than a Queen.

Maybe the bishop is actually a Napoleonic king. :-O

Ah! Frustrating that this never got a definitive answer... I've been trying to find this out for years.
So I have a chess set and the King and Queen are exactly these pieces. So to be very clear, these two ARE the King and Queen, the bishops are different. The question remains, which is which? So if you just showed me the left one, I would think it's the Queen, of course it is, right? BUT then when you see the other piece you go, hmmm, that can't really be the King, can it? It feels odd to use the right one as a queen, but it also feels odd to use it as the king. Surly some chess historian recognises them? Is the smaller piece on the right some kind of pre-Staunton style King?

i think the king's just short

Isn't that a queen and bishop

The queen is the left 1 but that king should have a cross on top & it looks too much like a bishop. I would get different pieces to play with. Chess is hard enough without piece confusion too.

I think this is probably correct, he's just a short King!  But it would be nice to get a definitive answer.
So to be very clear again, the piece on the right is 100% either the King or Queen, this is not up for debate, the bishops are bishops, with the slit etc.

i had a chess set at my school, the king looked the same as the bishops, except that the bishops had a slit, like this chess set

Great, thanks! This helps a lot. There must be a specific style of chess set that is like this, wish I could find a name.
So here is my set, from left to right: pawn, rook, knight, bishop, (?Queen/King?)

That Rook looks great! The sides of it looks like it’s tiled/bricked?

LPT: Tie a small rubber band around the King(s). You'll know which one is which.

Yea, they're cool. It's just the horizontal grooves all the way around, no vertical lines.

A MacGyver solution for the short king on the right that sort of looks like a bishop without the slit is a fantastic idea that saves the player the $ that could be used to replace it.

cool chess set, the rook looks interesting though, and the knight looks like its seen some things that it did not want to see

The king is just really fat if you ask me, my opinion!

wow, short and fat.

the creator of this set must hate their ruler.