Today's Expert Sudoku puzzle

Expert Sudoku puzzle published on 2026-07-02, with 26 given clues. Solving it requires the following techniques: Naked Single, Hidden Single, Pointing Pair, Naked Pair, X-Wing, XY-Wing, W-Wing, Claiming, XY-Chain. Every puzzle on this site is generated by Dancing Links and then verified by a tiered human-style solver, so it is guaranteed solvable with logic alone – no guessing or backtracking.