Printable Sudoku Puzzles on the Live Sudoku Site

If you look at my Copyright Information page, you will see that I allow anybody to print, copy and distribute my puzzles free of charge. However, there is only ever one puzzle per post so your printing costs might make this uneconomical.

If this applies to you, take a look at the Free Printable Sudoku page on the Live Sudoku site. This lets you download PDFs which contain easy, medium, hard or evil puzzles, with either 4 or 6 puzzles on each page. You are then free to print and copy them as often as you wish. The page has other options too, including the ability to create blank sudoku grids.

I downloaded one of their books of evil puzzles, which contained 60 sudokus. I checked the grade of the first grid on SudokuWiki.org. This gave it a rating of Tough / 177. The solve path used naked pairs, naked triples, pointing pairs and a Y-wing. You can see the puzzle below if you would like to try it yourself:

Chess Solution no 11

 

15. ...  Nxd5

16. Nxd5  Qe5

Black's queen is simultaneously attacking the rook at a1 and the knight at d5. White must lose the knight to save the rook. In the actual game, white resigned at this point.

Chess Puzzle no 11

This position is from Dzhuguryan v. Rudzinska, Poland, 2022. It is black to play. What should she do?

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Solution to Sudoku no 707

Sudoku no 707 (Easy)

Our younger son created this puzzle using a Javascript program which he wrote himself:

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Solution to Sudoku no 706

Sudoku no 706 (Extreme)

 

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Chess Solution no 10

35. ...  Bxf3+!

at which point white resigned in the actual game.

 

Here is the full solution to the puzzle I set:

 

35. ...  Bxf3+!

36. Kf1  Be2#

 

or

 

35. ... Bxf3+!

36. Ng4  Rxg4+

37. Kf1  Be2#

 

or

 

35. ...  Bxf3+!

36. Ng4  Rxg4+

37. Kh2  Bf2

38. Kh3  Rh4#

Chess Puzzle no 10

This position is from Wafa v. Navrotescu, Women's Olympiad, Chennai, India, 2022. Black to play and checkmate in 4 moves:

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Solution to Sudoku no 705

Sudoku no 705 (Diabolical)

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Chess Solution no 9

 

 

14. ... e4

 

...and one of the white knights will be lost.

Chess Puzzle no 9

This position is from Kenia Jose Palanco v. Tatiana Dornbusch, Women's Blitz, Monaco, 2019. It is black to play. What is her best move?

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Solution to Sudoku no 704

Sudoku no 704 (Diabolical)

Our younger son created this puzzle using a Javascript program which he wrote himself:

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Chess Solution no 8b

34. Nxe7+!

at which point black resigned.

The game might have continued as follows:

34. ...  Kf8

35. Qxh7  Kxe7

36. Qxg7+ etc.

or

34. ...  Kh8

35. Qxh7+  Kxh7

36. Rh1+  Rh2

37. Rxh2# 

Chess Puzzle no 8b

This position, which is continued from chess solution no 8a, is from Radusinovic v. Rajkovoc, Serbia, 2022. Black has just played

33. ...  Qh7? How should white respond?

 

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Chess Solution no 8a

 

 

33. ...  Bf8

 

But see chess puzzle no 8b. 

 

 

Chess Puzzle no 8a

This position is from Radusinovic v. Rajkovoc, Serbia, 2022. Black (to move) has a strong position but is threatened with 34. Qxg7#. What should he play?

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