Daily Killer Sudoku October 24, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on October 24, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 14 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 12 | |||
| 16 | 14 | 12 | 16 | |||||
| 22 | 14 | |||||||
| 9 | 10 | 20 | 18 | |||||
| 8 | 7 | 13 | ||||||
| 22 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 14 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 13 | ||||
| 10 | 18 | 13 | ||||||
| 9 | 7 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 145 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 56
- Hidden single× 21
- Naked pair× 2
- Pointing pair× 2
- Cage combinations× 64
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 24, 2026: the daily classic.