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The Daily Sudoku (5 Lines, New Every Day)

One fresh 9×9 every day in a clean, large-format editorial layout, in five difficulty lines from Easy to Sadistic. Single-solution verified, the answer key prints small on page two, and every past edition stays in the archive. A new edition lands at 3:01 AM Pacific.

Choose your line

Today’s five editions

Pick a line and print today’s puzzle. Each line has its own page and its own archive.

The Daily — Easy
singles only, a gentle daily
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The Daily — Medium
one locked-candidate step, the everyday
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The Daily — Hard
X-Wing, XY-Wing or Swordfish, a real sit-down
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The Daily — Expert
chains, the evil tier
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The Daily — Sadistic
minimal givens, brutal, for the bold
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What you print

What a daily edition looks like on paper

Page one of a real edition from each line. The layout is the same across lines; the givens thin out as the tier rises.

Daily Sudoku easy edition page with a large 9x9 headline, the edition number and date, a difficulty tab strip marking Easy and one big grid with many givens

Easy line

singles only, a gentle daily
Daily Sudoku medium edition page with a large 9x9 headline, edition number and date, a difficulty tab strip marking Medium and one big grid with moderate givens

Medium line

one locked-candidate step, the everyday
Daily Sudoku hard edition page with a large 9x9 headline, edition number and date, a difficulty tab strip marking Hard and one big grid with sparse givens

Hard line

X-Wing, XY-Wing or Swordfish, a real sit-down
Daily Sudoku expert edition page with a large 9x9 headline, edition number and date, a difficulty tab strip marking Expert and one big grid with very few givens

Expert line

chains, the evil tier
Daily Sudoku sadistic edition page with a large 9x9 headline, edition number and date, an unmarked difficulty tab strip and one big grid with only a scattering of givens

Sadistic line

minimal givens, brutal, for the bold
How the daily works

One numbered edition a day, kept forever

Every morning at 3:01 Pacific the site mints five puzzles, one per line, stamps them with the edition number and date, and files them. The puzzles come from the same technique-graded engine as the classic generator, so an Easy edition finishes with singles alone and an Expert edition needs a chain, every day without exception. Each edition is verified to have exactly one solution before it is issued.

The point of a numbered edition rather than a random puzzle is that everyone gets the same one. A couple can race, a classroom can solve edition 111 together, a care-home activity room can pin the Easy line by the coffee. Past editions are never regenerated: the archive prints the original two-page PDF for any date. For a themed frame around a daily-style puzzle, the newspaper sudoku templates set the same grid as a broadsheet.

Questions

Daily sudoku questions

What time does the daily sudoku change?
3:01 AM Pacific, every day, all five lines at once. The edition number and date print in the header of every PDF, so a sheet printed at breakfast and one printed at midnight are the same puzzle.
Are past daily editions available?
All of them, back to edition one on May 17, 2026. Each line has an archive browsable by month, and every past edition prints as the same two-page PDF it was on the day, never reissued or regenerated.
Is the daily sudoku in large print?
Yes. The editorial layout prints one 9×9 grid per page at about seven inches with large digits, on every line. The answer key is deliberately small and on page two so it never shows through the front.
How is the daily puzzle different from the generator?
The generator prints as many puzzles as you like, at any layout, on demand. The Daily issues one numbered edition per line per day that everyone gets, with an archive, so a household or a class can solve the same puzzle and compare. Same engine, same single-solution guarantee.
Can I play the daily sudoku on screen instead?
Our sister site PuzzleFuel plays the identical edition interactively, with notes, a timer and a hint engine that names the next technique. This site is the print side; the puzzle numbers match.
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Updated September 2026 · a new edition every day