Daily Sudoku for October 12, 2026
The daily sudoku challenge for Monday, October 12, 2026 — a free easy 9×9 puzzle with a verified unique solution. Mondays are for momentum: the easiest grid of the week, perfect for warming up your scanning speed after the weekend.
Starting grid
Puzzle Facts
- Difficulty: Easy · Clues: 41 of 81 cells (40 to solve)
- Clues per digit: 1 ×6, 2 ×2, 3 ×7, 4 ×4, 5 ×5, 6 ×3, 7 ×5, 8 ×4, 9 ×5
- Digit 3 is the most clued with 7 appearances.
- Warm-up hint: the 2nd row has the most clues (6) — a good place to start.
- Watch the 2nd column: only 3 of its nine cells are clued, so it holds 6 of the puzzle's open questions.
- Box note: the 3rd 3×3 box is the emptiest with just 2 clues — it will demand the most cross-hatching.
Puzzle snapshot for the 285th day of the year.
Technique focus for this grid
Spot the hidden single. A cell may show three pencil candidates while some digit appears as a candidate only once in the whole box — that hidden single is worth more than any pattern. Sweep box by box for digits with a single home.
Clue map
Prefer solving on paper? Transcribe today's grid from this list:
- Row 1: c1 = 1, c4 = 4, c7 = 8
- Row 2: c2 = 6, c3 = 8, c4 = 5, c5 = 3, c6 = 1, c9 = 7
- Row 3: c2 = 9, c4 = 7, c5 = 8, c6 = 2
- Row 4: c4 = 9, c6 = 5, c7 = 4, c8 = 1, c9 = 3
- Row 5: c1 = 3, c3 = 1, c5 = 2, c7 = 5, c9 = 9
- Row 6: c1 = 5, c2 = 7, c3 = 9, c4 = 1, c6 = 3
- Row 7: c4 = 6, c5 = 5, c6 = 4, c8 = 3
- Row 8: c1 = 7, c4 = 3, c5 = 1, c6 = 8, c7 = 6, c8 = 9
- Row 9: c3 = 3, c6 = 7, c9 = 4
Everyone who played on this date solved the same puzzle: it is generated deterministically from the date itself, and the starting grid above shows exactly what appeared on the board that day. Your in-progress game saves automatically in your browser.
Other Recent Daily Puzzles
- Tuesday, September 29 — easy
- Wednesday, September 30 — medium
- Thursday, October 1 — medium
- Friday, October 2 — medium
- Saturday, October 3 — hard
- Sunday, October 4 — hard
- Monday, October 5 — easy
- Tuesday, October 6 — easy
- Wednesday, October 7 — medium
- Thursday, October 8 — medium
- Friday, October 9 — medium
- Saturday, October 10 — hard
- Sunday, October 11 — hard
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