Medium Sudoku
Welcome to Medium Sudoku, designed for players who have mastered the basics and are ready for more engaging challenges. These puzzles introduce intermediate techniques that will develop your logical thinking and pattern recognition skills.
Techniques You'll Need
- Hidden Singles
Finding cells where a number can only appear once in a row, column, or block, even when the cell has other candidates
- Pointing Pairs/Triples
When a number is restricted to one line within a block, it can be eliminated from that line in other blocks
- Naked Singles
Identifying cells that have only one possible candidate remaining after elimination
- Naked Pairs
When two cells in a unit contain exactly the same two candidates, those candidates can be eliminated from other cells in that unit
Balanced Challenge
Medium puzzles strike the perfect balance between accessibility and challenge. They're ideal for players who find Easy puzzles too straightforward but aren't yet ready for the complexity of Advanced or Hard levels. These puzzles will help you build the foundation for more advanced solving techniques.