Daily Sudoku for September 26, 2026
Updated
The daily sudoku for September 26, 2026 is a Medium puzzle with 27 clues and an SE rating of 3.4. It is the same grid the Suuudokuuu app serves as its daily challenge that day, everywhere in the world: the board is forged from the UTC date alone, so the app, this page and the archive all arrive at it independently.
| c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 | c5 | c6 | c7 | c8 | c9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| r2 | 1 | ||||||||
| r3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| r4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | |||||
| r5 | 6 | 3 | |||||||
| r6 | 9 | 4 | |||||||
| r7 | 5 | 4 | |||||||
| r8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| r9 | 9 | 1 | 5 |
- Difficulty
- Medium
- SE rating
- 3.4
- Solution steps
- 59
Techniques this puzzle needs
Solved the way the SE rating measures it, reaching for the cheapest technique that still makes progress, this puzzle needs Full House, Naked Single, Hidden Single, Pointing Pair, Naked Pair and Hidden Pair. The hardest of them sets its rating; the sudoku difficulty rating guide explains the scale.
Step-by-step solution
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Show all 59 steps
- The Hidden Single places 1 in r1c6. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 3 in r1c8. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 4 in r9c1. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 9 in r3c1. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 4 in r2c8. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 1 in r6c9. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 1 in r5c4. Hidden Single
- The Naked Single places 5 in r1c1. Naked Single
- The Full House places 6 in r1c5. Full House
- The Naked Single places 2 in r2c5. Naked Single
- The Naked Single places 6 in r3c3. Naked Single
- The Hidden Single places 6 in r7c2. Hidden Single
- The Naked Single places 2 in r8c1. Naked Single
- The Pointing Pair removes 8 from r4c6, r5c6, r6c6. Pointing Pair
- The Pointing Pair removes 9 from r7c7, r7c8. Pointing Pair
- The Pointing Pair removes 7 from r3c8. Pointing Pair
- The Naked Pair removes 2, 6 from r4c8, r4c8. Naked Pair
- The Hidden Pair removes 8, 5, 7 from r4c3, r5c3, r5c3, r5c3. Hidden Pair
- The Hidden Single places 7 in r5c6. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 7 in r3c9. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 7 in r2c4. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 9 in r2c6. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 5 in r3c6. Full House
- The Full House places 2 in r3c8. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 5 in r2c7. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 6 in r2c9. Full House
- The Full House places 2 in r4c9. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 9 in r7c4. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 2 in r5c2. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 5 in r5c8. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 8 in r5c5. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 4 in r4c5. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 4 in r5c3. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 9 in r5c7. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 6 in r9c7. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 2 in r7c7. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 3 in r8c7. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 3 in r2c2. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 8 in r2c3. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 8 in r6c2. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 5 in r8c2. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 8 in r7c1. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 7 in r6c1. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 8 in r9c6. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 2 in r6c6. Hidden Single
- The Hidden Single places 2 in r9c4. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 3 in r6c4. Full House
- The Full House places 6 in r4c6. Full House
- The Full House places 3 in r7c6. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 3 in r9c3. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 7 in r9c8. Full House
- The Hidden Single places 7 in r7c3. Hidden Single
- The Full House places 1 in r7c8. Full House
- The Full House places 1 in r8c3. Full House
- The Full House places 9 in r8c8. Full House
- The Naked Single places 9 in r4c3. Naked Single
- The Full House places 5 in r6c3. Full House
- The Full House places 8 in r4c8. Full House
- The Full House places 6 in r6c8. Full House
Show the completed grid
| c1 | c2 | c3 | c4 | c5 | c6 | c7 | c8 | c9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 |
| r2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| r3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| r4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2 |
| r5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| r6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| r7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| r8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| r9 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
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