Free Games A little puzzle ritual
Lots of us like a puzzle with the morning coffee — the same way we used to turn to the puzzle page of the newspaper. The Daily Sudoku brings that back: one puzzle a day, the same for every player, with big clear numbers and no clock.
The week has a gentle rhythm: Monday and Tuesday are easy, midweek is medium, and the weekend brings a harder grid for when you have more time in your chair.
Prefer to pick your own?
If you would rather choose the difficulty yourself and play as many as you like, head to our regular large-print Sudoku. And if you fancy something different, try today's Daily Cat Sudoku or browse all the brain puzzles.
How the week is shaped
The daily puzzle is not random. It follows a fixed weekly curve, so you always know roughly what you are walking into:
- Monday and Tuesday are easy. A gentle start to the week, and the right place to begin if you are new to the puzzle or coming back after a break.
- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are medium. Enough to make you stop and think once or twice, without turning into an afternoon's work.
- Saturday and Sunday are hard. Kept for the days when there is usually more time in the chair.
The day changes at midnight UTC, which is midnight in London in winter, seven in the evening in New York, and mid-morning in Australia. So the new puzzle may arrive at an odd hour where you live, but it arrives at the same moment for everyone.
Everyone gets the same grid
Today's puzzle is generated from today's date, which means every person opening this page today is solving the identical grid. Nobody gets an easier one. That is what makes it worth telephoning a daughter or a neighbour to ask how they got on, or comparing notes over lunch — you are talking about the same squares.
It also means the puzzle cannot be reshuffled. If you are stuck, you are stuck on the same square everyone else is stuck on, and the Hint button will explain why the number it places belongs there rather than simply filling it in.
Your streak, and missing a day
Finish the puzzle and the site quietly counts the day. Come back tomorrow and finish again and it counts two, and so on. The count lives on your own device — we never see it, there is no account attached to it, and it is not a score anyone else can look at.
Miss a day and the count starts again from one. That is worth saying plainly, because a streak is meant to be a small pleasure rather than an obligation. Nobody is emailing you about it. If a week goes by, the puzzle is still here, still one a day, still waiting.
If you would rather not wait until tomorrow
One puzzle a day is the whole idea, but some days one is not enough. The regular large-print Sudoku lets you choose your own difficulty and play as many as you like, and every grid there can be printed if you would rather solve it on paper with a pencil. There is a whole page of printable puzzles for that.
