20 Printable Sudoku Puzzles to Test Your Smarts
Updated: Dec. 14, 2023
These printable sudoku puzzles are four different levels of difficulty. You want to start with the easy ones, but if you're an expert, you can skip to the extra hard puzzles.
Printable sudoku puzzles
In the mood to challenge your brain? Here are some printable sudoku puzzles that are sure to make you think hard. Sudoku puzzles aren’t easy, but with a little practice and some helpful sudoku tips, you’re sure to become an expert. Print a few of these out, get a pencil ready, and see how many you can solve without any mistakes. Sudoku puzzles are solved with logic and don’t require you to have any math skills (well, besides being able to count to 9). All of the sudoku puzzles are 9×9 grids. To solve them you have to fill in the empty cells. Each column, row, and region must contain the numbers 1 to 9 exactly once. Below there are sudoku puzzles for all levels—easy, medium, hard, and extra hard—so both kids and adults will find something to work on. If your brain is craving more exercise, also try these printable crossword puzzles, printable brain teasers, printable word searches, and holiday word searches.
Puzzle #1 – Easy
These first five puzzles are easy. If you haven’t done a printable sudoku puzzle in a while, start off with one of these.
Puzzle #3 – Easy
Puzzle #5 – Easy
If you solved all of these easy sudoku puzzles, congrats! Let’s kick it up a notch.
Puzzle #6 – Medium
Now, these printable sudoku puzzles start to get a little harder. These next five are medium difficulty. See if you can solve these “What am I?” riddles.
Puzzle #7 – Medium
Puzzle #11 – Hard
Did you finish all of the easy and medium printable sudoku puzzles? Now, try these hard ones. Also, see if you can solve the most famous riddles in history.
Puzzle #17 – Extra hard
Puzzle #18 – Extra hard
Puzzle #19 – Extra hard
Puzzle #20 – Extra hard
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Originally Published: June 10, 2021
