🌱 38–42 given numbers
Easy Printable Sudoku
100 free easy puzzles for beginners, children learning the rules and relaxed family puzzling.
Easy puzzles can be finished using only naked singles: cells where just one digit still fits. No pencil-mark tricks are ever needed.
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Puzzle guide
About easy Sudoku
What they are
An easy Sudoku starts with 38 to 42 numbers already in place, so nearly half the board is done before you pick up a pencil. Our rater only files a grid here if it can be finished with naked singles: squares where every digit but one is already ruled out by its row, column and box.
How to play
Fill the 9×9 board so each row, each column and each 3×3 box holds the digits 1 to 9 exactly once. Pick a digit, say 5, and look at every box that is still missing it; usually the other fives on the board leave just one empty square where it can go.
Tips
Scan for the most common digit first, since it has the fewest gaps left. Work box by box rather than square by square, and write a number in only when you are sure. If you get stuck, count what each nearly-full row is missing.
Who they suit
These grids suit children from about seven, adults trying Sudoku for the first time, and anyone who wants a calm ten minutes. Teachers use them as a logic warm-up because pupils can check their own work against the answer page.
Printing
Each puzzle prints large on a single sheet, or two or four to a page for a stack of practice grids. The solution is on a separate page, so you can hand out the puzzle without spoiling it.
Good to know
Easy Sudoku questions
Need a break from the numbers?
Try a easy riddle
Sudoku and riddles train the same muscle: spotting what must be true. Here are a few easy riddles with answers.