Medium Sudoku Printable (Free PDF + Generator)
Medium is the everyday puzzle: singles get you most of the way, then one locked-candidate move opens the rest. Download the 24-puzzle pack with answers, or open the generator preset to Medium and print 1 to 6 per page.
Medium sudoku PDF packs, answers included
Ready-to-print packs from this site's generator. Every puzzle is single-solution verified and graded Medium by the technique it actually needs.
Medium sudoku generator: print exactly the sheet you want
Preset to Medium. Pick 1, 2, 4 or 6 per page and how many pages; the preview is puzzle #1. Every grid is checked for a single solution before it draws.
Every puzzle is checked for a single unique solution before it prints. Difficulty is graded by the hardest human technique the puzzle actually requires — not by clue count. No signup, no email, no watermark.
What a medium sudoku from this generator looks like
Page one of the pack and the four-per-page generator layout. Medium puzzles have fewer givens than Easy and always contain at least one locked-candidate step.
Medium pack, six per page
Medium, four per page
Medium, large print
The one technique that makes a sudoku medium
A medium puzzle on this site is one the grader could not finish with singles alone but did finish once locked candidates were allowed: if a digit inside a 3×3 box can only sit in one row of that box, it cannot appear in that row anywhere else, so the solver erases it there and a single appears. That is the whole step. No pairs, no X-Wings, nothing you would call advanced.
It is also why a medium puzzle from here feels consistent from one sheet to the next. Newspapers often label by give-away count, which produces a "medium" that is sometimes a singles-only walk and sometimes a hard puzzle in disguise. Grading by technique means the pack above is 24 puzzles that all play the same way.
How to solve a medium sudoku without pencilling every cell
Run the singles first: scan each digit 1 through 9 across the three bands of boxes and place anything forced. When that stalls, pencil candidates only in the box that looks most constrained and look for a digit confined to a single row or column inside it. Erase that digit from the rest of the line, and the singles usually start again. Pencil-marking the whole grid on a medium is the slow way; the pencil-mark grid exists for hard puzzles.
When a medium sheet starts feeling routine, the next tier is hard sudoku, where X-Wing and XY-Wing patterns appear. If it still feels like a fight, drop back to easy for a week; speed on singles is what makes medium comfortable.
Every printable sudoku on this site
Every sudoku template on this site prints the same technique-graded 9×9 puzzle — only the frame around it changes. Pick the one that matches the occasion, or start from a blank sudoku template and write your own.