Sudoku (Dagens Nyheter)

About Sudoku (Dagens Nyheter)

Dagens Nyheter, the Stockholm daily, publishes its sudokus on its games pages: nine new puzzles every day, spread over six levels of difficulty. DN calls them tricky in six levels and dares readers to try the ultra hard one, so there is something for a quick break and something for a long sit.

The puzzles are classic 9x9 sudokus: fill every row, column and 3x3 box with the digits 1 to 9, each once, starting from the given numbers. You solve them in the browser, and because the rules need no words, the Swedish page is no barrier to anyone who knows sudoku.

A free DN account opens all the levels; without one, DN asks you to log in. Days you missed are kept in an archive. The same games page links to DN's other dailies, among them the crossword, a word grouping game called Dagens fyra, quick minigames and the geography game Gissa platsen. It suits sudoku players who like to choose their own difficulty each day rather than get one fixed puzzle.

How to play Sudoku (Dagens Nyheter)

1. Open Sudoku on DN.se and log in with a free DN account to reach every level.
2. Pick one of the day's nine puzzles by difficulty.
3. Fill each empty square with a digit from 1 to 9 so that no row, column or 3x3 box repeats a digit.
4. Finish the grid, then try a harder level or a missed day from the archive.

Tips

• Begin at a level you can finish, then step up one level at a time over the week.
• Scan each digit across the whole grid before writing pencil marks; it finds the easy placements fast.
• On the hardest levels, keep candidate notes in every square and look for pairs that rule out digits elsewhere.

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