Daily Sudoku for October 8, 2026

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The daily sudoku for October 8, 2026 is a Medium puzzle with 27 clues and an SE rating of 2.6. 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.

The Medium daily sudoku for October 8, 2026.
c1c2c3c4c5c6c7c8c9
r1248
r28
r31375
r4436
r56825
r6578
r775
r8972
r95462
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Difficulty
Medium
SE rating
2.6
Solution steps
60

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 and Pointing Pair. The hardest of them sets its rating; the sudoku difficulty rating guide explains the scale.

Step-by-step solution

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  1. The Hidden Single places 4 in r2c1. Hidden Single
  2. The Hidden Single places 8 in r3c3. Hidden Single
  3. The Hidden Single places 5 in r2c3. Hidden Single
  4. The Hidden Single places 7 in r9c3. Hidden Single
  5. The Hidden Single places 9 in r6c3. Hidden Single
  6. The Hidden Single places 2 in r3c4. Hidden Single
  7. The Hidden Single places 6 in r6c5. Hidden Single
  8. The Hidden Single places 2 in r2c7. Hidden Single
  9. The Hidden Single places 7 in r2c9. Hidden Single
  10. The Pointing Pair removes 1 from r7c2, r8c2. Pointing Pair
  11. The Pointing Pair removes 3 from r7c1. Pointing Pair
  12. The Pointing Pair removes 3 from r1c4, r7c4. Pointing Pair
  13. The Pointing Pair removes 4 from r7c4. Pointing Pair
  14. The Pointing Pair removes 3 from r8c8, r9c8. Pointing Pair
  15. The Pointing Pair removes 6 from r8c2. Pointing Pair
  16. The Naked Single places 8 in r8c2. Naked Single
  17. The Hidden Single places 8 in r4c1. Hidden Single
  18. The Hidden Single places 8 in r7c6. Hidden Single
  19. The Hidden Single places 4 in r8c6. Hidden Single
  20. The Hidden Single places 4 in r7c9. Hidden Single
  21. The Hidden Single places 4 in r3c8. Hidden Single
  22. The Hidden Single places 6 in r3c6. Hidden Single
  23. The Full House places 9 in r3c9. Full House
  24. The Hidden Single places 4 in r6c4. Hidden Single
  25. The Hidden Single places 3 in r5c4. Hidden Single
  26. The Hidden Single places 3 in r6c1. Hidden Single
  27. The Hidden Single places 2 in r7c1. Hidden Single
  28. The Hidden Single places 6 in r1c1. Hidden Single
  29. The Full House places 7 in r5c1. Full House
  30. The Hidden Single places 7 in r1c2. Hidden Single
  31. The Full House places 9 in r2c2. Full House
  32. The Hidden Single places 6 in r2c8. Hidden Single
  33. The Hidden Single places 2 in r4c2. Hidden Single
  34. The Full House places 1 in r5c2. Full House
  35. The Full House places 6 in r7c2. Full House
  36. The Hidden Single places 7 in r4c8. Hidden Single
  37. The Hidden Single places 4 in r5c7. Hidden Single
  38. The Full House places 9 in r5c8. Full House
  39. The Hidden Single places 2 in r6c8. Hidden Single
  40. The Full House places 1 in r6c9. Full House
  41. The Full House places 3 in r9c9. Full House
  42. The Hidden Single places 6 in r8c7. Hidden Single
  43. The Hidden Single places 9 in r9c7. Hidden Single
  44. The Full House places 1 in r1c7. Full House
  45. The Full House places 3 in r1c8. Full House
  46. The Hidden Single places 3 in r2c6. Hidden Single
  47. The Full House places 1 in r2c5. Full House
  48. The Hidden Single places 5 in r8c5. Hidden Single
  49. The Hidden Single places 3 in r7c5. Hidden Single
  50. The Full House places 9 in r4c5. Full House
  51. The Hidden Single places 3 in r8c3. Hidden Single
  52. The Full House places 1 in r7c3. Full House
  53. The Full House places 9 in r7c4. Full House
  54. The Full House places 1 in r8c8. Full House
  55. The Full House places 8 in r9c8. Full House
  56. The Full House places 1 in r9c6. Full House
  57. The Hidden Single places 9 in r1c6. Hidden Single
  58. The Full House places 5 in r1c4. Full House
  59. The Full House places 1 in r4c4. Full House
  60. The Full House places 5 in r4c6. Full House
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The completed grid for October 8, 2026.
c1c2c3c4c5c6c7c8c9
r1672549138
r2495813267
r3138276549
r4824195376
r5716382495
r6359467821
r7261938754
r8983754612
r9547621983

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