Daily Killer Sudoku July 7, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on July 7, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 14 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 148 | 2 | 22 | ||
| 10 | 11 | 3 | ||||||
| 12 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 5 | |||
| 20 | 11 | 7 | 12 | |||||
| 17 | 12 | |||||||
| 22 | 8 | 7 | 18 | |||||
| 18 | 9 | |||||||
| 16 | 1 | 21 | 13 | |||||
| 9 | 10 | 8 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 161 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 62
- Hidden single× 18
- Naked pair× 2
- Cage combinations× 79
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 July 7, 2026: the daily classic.