Sudoku: Dec. 16

By , Daily Memphian Updated: December 16, 2024 4:00 AM CT | Published: December 16, 2024 4:00 AM CT

The Daily Memphian now offers readers all four sudoku puzzle difficulty levels every day. Keep scrolling for easy, medium, hard and killer sudokus.

Need more to satisfy your sudoku craving?

Subscribers can play every puzzle in our archives — start on the easy sudoku level, slide into the medium-difficulty puzzle level, then step up to hard sudoku or test your prowess with the full stash of killer sudoku.

Easy

Not sure how to play? Each 9-by-9 square has to include the numbers 1-9. But you can’t repeat any individual number in the same 9-by-9 square or on the same line, whether it’s vertical or horizontal. 

Medium

Hard

Killer

Killer sudoku is similar to the other levels in that each of the numbers 1-9 must fit into each 9-by-9 square. No number can be repeated more than once in the square or in a horizontal or vertical row.

The difference here: You might notice there aren’t a lot of numbers in the grid boxes to start, or any.

Instead, you are given groups of numbers in what’s known as a cage. The small number at the top left of each cage is the sum of the numbers in those boxes. For instance, if the cage’s number is 4 and it includes two boxes, the answer will be 3 and 1. But which one goes where? 

Don’t forget, if you need help, there’s an “Assist” dropdown near the top right of the puzzle. 

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