Daily Killer Sudoku June 5, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on June 5, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 19 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 20 | |||
| 9 | 6 | 12 | ||||||
| 17 | 11 | |||||||
| 12 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 3 | |||
| 15 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| 9 | 12 | 20 | 9 | |||||
| 16 | 3 | 14 | 21 | |||||
| 13 | 9 | 5 | 14 | |||||
| 17 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 170 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 68
- Hidden single× 12
- Naked pair× 9
- Hidden pair× 2
- Pointing pair× 4
- Cage combinations× 75
Difficulty on Stillgrid is graded by the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires — this one earns Medium. How the technique ladder works.
Stuck on a cage? The killer sudoku calculator lists every combination a sum can take.
Also on June 5, 2026: the daily classic. Or jump to today's killer daily.