Daily Killer Sudoku August 25, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on August 25, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 17 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 17 | |||
| 12 | 11 | |||||||
| 16 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 18 | ||||
| 17 | 7 | 12 | 13 | |||||
| 24 | 19 | |||||||
| 2 | 9 | 8 | 19 | |||||
| 11 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 13 | ||||
| 3 | 7 | |||||||
| 15 | 21 | 4 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 144 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 51
- Hidden single× 28
- Naked pair× 6
- Cage combinations× 59
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 August 25, 2026: the daily classic. Or jump to today's killer daily.