Free printable Sudoku puzzles
Every sheet on this page is generated the moment you ask for it, so no two printouts are the same. Choose a difficulty, how many puzzles you want, and whether to put one, two or four grids on a page — then print. The answers are optional, and when you include them they go on their own page at the end so you are not tempted to glance across.
There is nothing to download and nothing to sign up for. The puzzles are ordinary 9×9 Sudoku with exactly one solution each, checked before they reach the page.
Choosing a level
The five levels are not clue counts — they are the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires. Easy grids fall to scanning and single candidates alone. Medium adds locked candidates and pairs. Hard needs a pattern like an X-Wing. Expert and Evil ask for chains, and are meant to take a sitting rather than a coffee break.
If you are printing for someone else, Easy and Medium are the safe choices. A blank Evil grid on paper, with no undo button, is a different experience from the same puzzle on screen.
The rules, in one paragraph
Fill every empty cell so that each row, each column, and each 3×3 box contains the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. There is no arithmetic and no guessing required. If you would like the longer version with worked examples, our rules and beginner techniques page covers it, and the technique library takes each named pattern in turn.
Why paper is worth it
- Pencil marks have more room. A printed grid gives you the whole cell to write candidates in, and you can cross them out your own way instead of the app's.
- No hints to resist. The button is not there, which changes how long you are willing to sit with a hard grid.
- It travels. A sheet of paper works on a plane, in a waiting room, and anywhere the battery has gone.
- It is shareable. Print four copies of the same sheet and race someone.
What you give up
Worth saying plainly: paper has no undo, no mistake checking and no timer. A wrong digit early on can cost you the grid, and you will not find out until much later. It also cannot tell you that a puzzle is still solvable — on screen we check that for you.
If that matters more to you than the feel of a pencil, play online instead and print only the ones you want to keep.