Daily Killer Sudoku October 27, 2026
The same puzzle everyone got on October 27, 2026 — deterministic, graded, and still playable.
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 11 | ||
| 12 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 7 | ||||
| 10 | 10 | 14 | 3 | |||||
| 20 | 6 | 23 | 18 | |||||
| 13 | 21 | 4 | ||||||
| 15 | 4 | |||||||
| 17 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 11 | |||
| 7 | 15 | 20 | ||||||
| 6 | 19 |
What it takes to solve
Our grader solved this puzzle in 142 steps. Every technique it needed, in ladder order:
- Naked single× 51
- Hidden single× 28
- Naked pair× 2
- Cage combinations× 61
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 27, 2026: the daily classic.