Daily Sudoku for October 26, 2026

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The daily sudoku for October 26, 2026 is a Newbie puzzle with 37 clues and an SE rating of 2.3. 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 Newbie daily sudoku for October 26, 2026.
c1c2c3c4c5c6c7c8c9
r18679
r2458
r39671834
r4685497
r527
r6539426
r7934
r862
r92978
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Difficulty
Newbie
SE rating
2.3
Solution steps
44

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 and Hidden Single. 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 44 steps
  1. The Hidden Single places 3 in r8c1. Hidden Single
  2. The Hidden Single places 7 in r7c1. Hidden Single
  3. The Full House places 1 in r5c1. Full House
  4. The Hidden Single places 6 in r2c8. Hidden Single
  5. The Hidden Single places 7 in r2c9. Hidden Single
  6. The Hidden Single places 3 in r2c2. Hidden Single
  7. The Hidden Single places 3 in r1c8. Hidden Single
  8. The Hidden Single places 1 in r2c3. Hidden Single
  9. The Hidden Single places 1 in r1c7. Hidden Single
  10. The Hidden Single places 9 in r2c6. Hidden Single
  11. The Full House places 2 in r2c5. Full House
  12. The Full House places 4 in r1c4. Full House
  13. The Hidden Single places 2 in r1c2. Hidden Single
  14. The Full House places 5 in r1c3. Full House
  15. The Hidden Single places 9 in r5c2. Hidden Single
  16. The Hidden Single places 2 in r3c7. Hidden Single
  17. The Full House places 5 in r3c8. Full House
  18. The Hidden Single places 6 in r7c3. Hidden Single
  19. The Hidden Single places 8 in r8c3. Hidden Single
  20. The Hidden Single places 1 in r4c9. Hidden Single
  21. The Hidden Single places 3 in r5c9. Hidden Single
  22. The Full House places 5 in r7c9. Full House
  23. The Hidden Single places 6 in r5c6. Hidden Single
  24. The Hidden Single places 3 in r9c5. Hidden Single
  25. The Hidden Single places 4 in r8c5. Hidden Single
  26. The Full House places 1 in r6c5. Full House
  27. The Hidden Single places 4 in r9c2. Hidden Single
  28. The Hidden Single places 5 in r8c2. Hidden Single
  29. The Full House places 1 in r7c2. Full House
  30. The Full House places 7 in r6c2. Full House
  31. The Full House places 8 in r6c6. Full House
  32. The Full House places 3 in r4c4. Full House
  33. The Full House places 2 in r4c3. Full House
  34. The Full House places 4 in r5c3. Full House
  35. The Full House places 8 in r7c4. Full House
  36. The Full House places 2 in r7c6. Full House
  37. The Hidden Single places 5 in r9c6. Hidden Single
  38. The Full House places 1 in r8c6. Full House
  39. The Naked Single places 5 in r5c7. Naked Single
  40. The Full House places 8 in r5c8. Full House
  41. The Naked Single places 7 in r8c7. Naked Single
  42. The Full House places 6 in r9c7. Full House
  43. The Full House places 9 in r8c8. Full House
  44. The Full House places 1 in r9c8. Full House
Show the completed grid
The completed grid for October 26, 2026.
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r1825467139
r2431529867
r3967183254
r4682354971
r5194276583
r6573918426
r7716892345
r8358641792
r9249735618

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