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Featured Puzzle: Killer Jigsaw Sudoku

ByJacob Valdez
  • Killer Jigsaw Sudoku Puzzle

“I want to play a game.” Jigsaw has scrambled the regions of a Sudoku grid and placed all the answers in cages! Can you still solve it?

  • As in normal Sudoku, place the numbers 1-9 in the grid without repeating a digit in any row, column, or region.
  • In addition, regions are not 3×3, and no digit repeats inside a cage.
  • Given numbers show the totals of digits within each cage.
  • Be careful! Some cages cross region borders.

Basic Sudoku techniques can be found in our Solving Guide. Be on the lookout for tips specific to Killer and Jigsaw variants in future tutorials.

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  • Solved Killer Jigsaw Sudoku Puzzle

“You think it is over, but the games have just begun.”

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