Sudoku Hints — Hints & Answers — June 17, 2026
If you're stuck on a Sudoku puzzle in the Netflix Puzzled collection, our Netflix Sudoku Hints Solver can help you move forward without spoiling the entire puzzle. By analyzing the current grid, the tool highlights possible number placements and logical moves that help you progress toward the correct solution.
Click any empty square to reveal the correct digit for that cell. Given digits are locked.
- Numbers 1–9 must appear once in each row, column, and 3×3 box.
- Use the difficulty buttons to switch between Easy, Medium, and Hard.
- Use the day picker to view a different day's puzzle.
How to use our Netflix Sudoku Solver
1) Pick a difficulty
Choose Easy, Medium or Hard to load today's puzzle for that level.
2) Click to reveal
Click any empty square to reveal the correct digit for that cell (given digits are locked).
3) Reveal or clear all
Use Reveal all to show the whole solution, or Clear all to reset your board.
4) Pick a day
Use the day picker to view past puzzles from earlier in the week.
How to play Sudoku - A Beginner's Guide
Are you just starting out with Sudoku? Or maybe you want to refresh your skills? This guide will show you the basic techniques to get you started solving easy puzzles. We will also guide you to harder techniques when you are ready to take it to the next level.
Beginner Technique #1 — Last Free Cell
If a unit (a row, column or 3×3 box) has eight digits filled and just one empty square, that last square must be the missing digit. Below are three patterns, each shown as Before (scan) → After (place).
Example A - Box
Example B - Row
Example C - Column
That's it—your first power move in Sudoku. Next we build on it with a slightly stronger scan: Last Remaining Cell .
Beginner Technique #2 — Last Remaining Cell
A unit can have several empty cells, but for a specific digit d only one cell can take it. Often you spot this by scanning lines that block candidates. Below, the bottom‑left box can only place a 7 in one square because a 7 in a highlighted column and another 7 in a highlighted row remove the other options.
Example D — Last Remaining Cell (Box with row/column constraints)
The blue 7 can only be placed in the orange square to satisfy the row, column and box constraints.
Beginner Technique #3 — Last Possible Number
Focus on one cell. Look at digits already present in its row, column and 3×3 box. If those three sets together cover all digits except one, the remaining digit is forced in that cell.
Example E — Only one number fits
Look at the highligted box. It includes the numbers 2, 4, 6, 3 and 7. So in the highlighted cell, the number could be 1, 5, 8 or 9. However, looking at the column, we can see that 1, 8 and 9 are already used. So the only possible number is 5.
Want to take your Sudoku solves to the next level?
Once you're comfortable with the beginner set, try these progressive ideas. Each one trims candidates in new ways and helps on Medium → Hard puzzles.
Using Notes (Pencil Marks)
Write possible digits in each empty cell. As you eliminate options, singles pop out.
Obvious (Naked) Singles
A cell's notes shrink to one digit → place it immediately.
Hidden Singles
Within one unit, only one cell can take a digit—even if its notes include others.
Naked Pairs/Triples
Two/three cells in a unit share the same two/three candidates → remove them elsewhere in that unit.
Hidden Pairs/Triples
Two/three digits only appear in the same two/three cells → lock those cells to those digits.
Locked Candidates (Pointing / Claiming)
Digits confined to a line within a box (or to a box within a line) eliminate candidates beyond it.
X‑Wing & Swordfish
Grid‑line patterns that cull an entire digit from columns/rows in tandem.
XY‑Wing, Coloring, and more
Chain‑based eliminations that unlock many Hard puzzles.
Want a deeper dive right now? See the primers at sudoku.com/sudoku-rules .
Many Sudoku players prefer using hints instead of full solutions so they can continue solving the puzzle themselves. This solver helps reveal potential placements and strategies while still preserving the challenge of the game.
Frequently Asked Questions
Netflix Puzzled is a mobile gaming app and web destination (via Tudum.com) created by Next Games that offers daily word, logic, and visual puzzles, including Bonza, Sudoku, and themed puzzles based on Netflix shows like Stranger Things and Squid Game. It is designed to be a daily brain-boosting, ad-free experience, available as a standalone app on the App Store and Google Play Store.
Netflix Puzzled launched globally on November 26, 2025. It is a daily puzzle platform featuring word, logic, and visual games, including a special Stranger Things event that runs from the launch date through December 31, 2025. The games are available on mobile devices and the Tudum website.
No, the app is free to play and does not require a Netflix subscription to access the daily puzzles, although signing in with a Netflix account saves your streak.
A Sudoku hints solver is a tool that analyzes the puzzle grid and identifies possible number placements based on Sudoku rules. Instead of revealing the full solution, it helps guide players toward the next logical move.
The modern version of Sudoku was first created in 1979 by American puzzle designer Howard Garns. It was originally published in Dell Magazines under the name "Number Place."
Sudoku became widely popular in 2004, when the puzzle was introduced to newspapers in the United Kingdom. Its popularity quickly spread across Europe and the rest of the world, becoming one of the most widely played logic puzzles.
Sudoku was popularized globally by Wayne Gould, a New Zealand judge who developed a computer program capable of generating Sudoku puzzles. His software helped newspapers publish new Sudoku puzzles daily, which contributed to the puzzle's rapid worldwide popularity.
The name Sudoku comes from the Japanese phrase "Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru," which roughly means "the numbers must remain single." The name was adopted when the puzzle gained popularity in Japan during the 1980s.
Although Sudoku uses numbers, it is actually a logic puzzle rather than a math puzzle. Players do not perform arithmetic; instead, they use deduction and pattern recognition to determine the correct placement of numbers.
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