Daily Killer Sudoku September 5, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on September 5, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 22 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 15 | |||
| 17 | 16 | 18 | 3 | |||||
| 10 | 7 | 17 | 19 | |||||
| 118 | 9 | 11 | 6 | |||||
| 18 | 6 | 12 | ||||||
| 17 | 16 | 15 | 6 | |||||
| 86 | 17 | 11 | 16 | |||||
| 21 | 17 | |||||||
| 17 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 150 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 58
- Hidden single× 21
- Naked pair× 4
- Hidden pair× 1
- Cage combinations× 66
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 September 5, 2026: the daily classic.