Daily Killer Sudoku October 9, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on October 9, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 14 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 122 | |||
| 11 | 19 | 16 | ||||||
| 20 | 9 | 16 | 6 | |||||
| 17 | 24 | 8 | ||||||
| 27 | 22 | |||||||
| 10 | 6 | 5 | ||||||
| 9 | 11 | 18 | 16 | |||||
| 15 | 14 | 23 | 2 | 16 | ||||
| 3 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 139 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 55
- Hidden single× 24
- Naked pair× 8
- Pointing pair× 1
- Cage combinations× 51
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 October 9, 2026: the daily classic.