New York Times Sudoku Hard Solution for May 24, 2026: Walkthrough

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:02]Hey, so this is New York Times Sudoku for May 24th, 2026.

[00:00:10]This is my walk-through and you can play this Sudoku from the link in the description.

[00:00:16]Okay, let's get it going.

[00:00:19]First thing's first, uh there's a triple in box three. It's 1 2 9 triple because column eight has 1 2 9 which block these cells, so these would be 1 2 9.

[00:00:35]And here's nine which blocks these cells.

[00:00:39]So, that gives me nine here.

[00:00:46]Um Okay, I'm going to mark this one later when it's needed.

[00:00:57]I can place eight in box seven.

[00:01:03]And that lets me place eight in box one.

[00:01:10]And here's one, here's one.

[00:01:13]They block these cells, gives me one here. [snorts] And um there's a double in box six.

[00:01:24]It's 4 6 double.

[00:01:28]Here's four and the six, here's four and the six. They block these cells.

[00:01:34]So, these two cells will be used by four and six.

[00:01:41]And uh Mhm.

[00:01:53]1 2 3 5 >> Okay, I think I did it too early, but uh let's move on. I can place one in box five here. [snorts] And now uh I can use this 4 6 double.

[00:02:20]So, here's five, which blocks these, and these will be used by four and the six.

[00:02:26]And um oh, that means I can place five on Sorry. Uh I can use I can place five on row five.

[00:02:35]This cell will be used by four or six.

[00:02:37]Five here blocks this cell. This five blocks here, and this five blocks here.

[00:02:43]So, this is the only cell I can place five on row five.

[00:02:49]And um column one is missing three and five.

[00:02:53]And here's five, so this will be three, and this will be five.

[00:03:05]And now row eight is missing two, three, six, seven, nine. I will put all of them here.

[00:03:16]This cell is blocked by two, seven, nine.

[00:03:25]So, it's three or six, but here's 4 6 double.

[00:03:29]So, this cell actually cannot be six.

[00:03:32]That leaves three for this cell.

[00:03:44]And um right, so um Okay, here's 5 6 7, so that me 567 triple.

[00:03:56]Uh cleaning up this cell cannot be six.

[00:04:00]Uh five blocks this cell.

[00:04:03]And that means these will be 348.

[00:04:07]And eight here blocks this cell.

[00:04:11]Now, that means I can place three in box six. This three blocks these.

[00:04:18]These will be used by five or seven.

[00:04:21]Three in the three gives me three here.

[00:04:33]And the Uh 1347 1348 Right. Uh Now, I can place eight in box six. This eight blocks here. Again, this will be five or seven. This eight blocks here gives me eight here.

[00:05:05]Eight eight eight gives me eight here.

[00:05:17]Uh these are 467.

[00:05:22]Oop.

[00:05:23]Yeah, row five is missing 467, and here's seven, which blocks this cell.

[00:05:28]This seven blocks here.

[00:05:30]So, seven will be here.

[00:05:33]Now, these will be four and the six.

[00:05:36]Four's already here, so this will be six, and this will be four.

[00:05:42]And that gives me six here.

[00:05:50]>> Uh these are 2 5 7 and 4 and the 9.

[00:05:59]1 3 4 8 uh Mhm.

[00:06:22]Oh, okay. Uh here's uh box 4 is missing 4 and the 9. Here's 4.

[00:06:31]So, this would be 9 and this would be 4.

[00:06:35]And uh Ooh.

[00:06:39]Um 1 2 3 9 Um mhm mhm mhm Okay, I can place 7 in box 1 now.

[00:06:56]And that 1 3 4. Right. Uh this 4 blocks these gives me 4 here.

[00:07:06]That gives me 3 here.

[00:07:09]Uh 1 3 2 9 1 3 6 uh Column 2 is missing 1 3 6 and this cell is blocked by 1 and a 3.

[00:07:23]So, that gives me 6 here.

[00:07:26]And that gives me 7 5 6.

[00:07:34]Uh 1 5 9 5 here blocks these gives me 5 here.

[00:07:40][snorts] And now column nine is missing one and the two. One here gives me two and the one and the two.

[00:07:51]The last number of this box is seven.

[00:07:54]And this cell is also seven.

[00:07:59]And the seven seven seven seven gives me seven here.

[00:08:12]Um this one block these gives me one and this would be three.

[00:08:18]Three three three gives me three here. [snorts] Uh these are one to nine.

[00:08:29]One and the one block these two gives me one here.

[00:08:39]Eight.

[00:08:40]Eight. Gives me eight.

[00:08:43]Four eight.

[00:08:46]And this would be six.

[00:08:48]This would be four.

[00:08:51]Six and the six and the six gives me six here.

[00:09:00]Uh two nine one nine.

[00:09:04]Two nine.

[00:09:07]Two five nine.

[00:09:10]Okay, uh five five five gives me five here.

[00:09:17]Five and the five gives me five here.

[00:09:25]And these would be two and the nine.

[00:09:28]Two here gives me nine and the two.

[00:09:32]And the nine two nine.

[00:09:35]The last number of this column is two and this would be nine. This would be two.

[00:09:43]These are three and a four.

[00:09:46]Four here gives me three and there four and there one three one Oh, I'm sorry. Nine and one.

[00:09:59]Okay, here it is.

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