Daily Killer Sudoku May 19, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on May 19, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 8 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |||||
| 7 | 17 | 8 | 16 | |||||
| 16 | 18 | |||||||
| 14 | 26 | |||||||
| 16 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 14 | ||||
| 2 | 11 | 14 | 5 | |||||
| 15 | 17 | 5 | 15 | |||||
| 13 | 11 | 13 | ||||||
| 14 | 7 | 14 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 158 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 57
- Hidden single× 22
- Naked pair× 7
- Pointing pair× 4
- Cage combinations× 66
- Forcing chain× 2
Difficulty on Stillgrid is graded by the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires — this one earns Nightmare. How the technique ladder works.
Stuck on a cage? The killer sudoku calculator lists every combination a sum can take.
Also on May 19, 2026: the daily classic. Or jump to today's killer daily.