Samurai Sudoku Puzzles
(aka Giatti-5 or Five in One Sudoku)
Samurai Sudoku is a great Sudoku puzzle variation. It combines five Sudoku puzzles into one large Sudoku grid. The corners of the center grid are shared with the corners of 4 four other grids. The same Sudoku rules apply as you try to solve all 5 adjoined puzzles.
Example of samurai sudoku puzzle grid
So where do you find the best samurai sudoku puzzles on the net? Check out the links below.
samurai-sudoku.com offers a daily samurai sudoku puzzle with a variety of difficulties including easy, moderate, hard, fiendish and evil. You can go back into the archive to play past puzzles going all the way back to January 30th 2006. These samurai sudoku puzzles can be completed online or you can print them out for solving. The online puzzle is user friendly and will give hints or solve one step at time if you get stuck and want some help. This is probably the best samurai sudoku website and the only one I really use.
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dragonsudoku.co.uk also has samurai sudoku puzzles available in print versions only. Refreshing randomly loads a new puzzle and there appears to be about 50 total puzzles. It is too bad you can't just pick the puzzle you want to play and instead have to rely on the random loading. When I clicked on the "printable version" button I did not get the sudoku grids and just got the numbers, so you have to click on the puzzle and select "open image in new window" to get it to print properly.
binaryworlds.com has printable samurai sudoku puzzles in medium and hard difficulties. Refresh the browser to load new puzzles. right click on the puzzle to open in a new browser window to print. It is unclear exactly how many samurai sudoku puzzles are available on this site.
djape.net uploads a new printable samurai sudoku puzzle every tuesday. Click on the grid to open the puzzle and then print it out.
Blank samurai Sudoku puzzle grids can also be downloaded here.
