A new medium Sudoku puzzle every day. With 30-35 clues, a satisfying daily challenge using intermediate techniques.
Medium daily puzzles require more than just singles. You will need techniques like naked pairs, pointing pairs, and box/line reduction to work through tricky spots where basic scanning stalls.
With 30-35 clues on the grid, you will find that some cells cannot be solved immediately. Using pencil marks to track candidate numbers becomes important at this level, allowing you to spot pairs and other patterns more reliably.
Begin with the same scanning approach you use for easy puzzles: find all the naked singles and hidden singles first. Once you have placed everything basic scanning reveals, switch to pencil marks. Look for naked pairs in rows, columns, and boxes. Two cells sharing the same two candidates let you eliminate those candidates from other cells in the same unit.
Pointing pairs and box/line reduction are the next techniques to apply. These exploit the overlap between boxes and lines to eliminate candidates. Read our medium solving guide for detailed walkthroughs.
A daily medium puzzle keeps your intermediate skills sharp and gradually prepares you for hard puzzles. The key is consistency: solving one medium puzzle every day reinforces your ability to spot pairs and elimination patterns without conscious effort.
Consider timing yourself to track your improvement. Over weeks of daily practice, you will notice your average solving time decrease as pattern recognition becomes automatic. Learn more about building a Sudoku daily routine.
Each daily medium Sudoku puzzle contains between 30 and 35 given clues. This is fewer than easy puzzles but enough to get started with basic scanning before intermediate techniques are needed.
Medium puzzles require naked singles and hidden singles as a foundation, plus intermediate techniques like naked pairs, pointing pairs, and box-line reduction. These techniques involve spotting patterns across multiple cells rather than solving one cell at a time.
Most solvers complete a medium Sudoku puzzle in 10 to 25 minutes. Beginners working up from easy puzzles may take longer initially, but regular practice at this level significantly improves speed and pattern recognition.
Easy puzzles can be solved using only singles techniques, while medium puzzles require intermediate strategies like pairs and pointing. Medium puzzles also have fewer starting clues (30-35 vs 36-45), which means more deduction steps and more reliance on pencil marks to track candidates.
Yes. A new daily medium Sudoku puzzle is published every day at midnight. The puzzle rotates through our library of 100 medium puzzles, giving you a fresh intermediate challenge each day.
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