New York Times Sudoku Medium Solution for May 6, 2026

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:02]Okay. So, this is New York Times sudok medium for May 6, 2026.

[00:00:10]This is Oh, you can play this sudoku from the link in the description. Sorry about that. Okay, let's get it going.

[00:00:19]First thing first, I can place one on row four. This one blocks these. So one will be here and that gives me one in box two and I can place uh six in box three and five. Okay. Oh no, five is already Yeah, I can place five in box two.

[00:00:57]And these are 2379.

[00:01:00]I can place two in box two.

[00:01:12]One, three, four, eight, uh, four, nine. Oh, okay. These are four and the nine. And here's nine. So this would be four and this would be nine.

[00:01:25]2 5 6 8 two and the two gives me two here five.

[00:01:41]Okay, this would be 1578.

[00:01:45]Let's see. Uh this is blocked by 158.

[00:01:51]So this would be seven.

[00:01:55]Uh yeah, this is brought by five and eight. So this would be one and here's five. So this would be eight and this would be five.

[00:02:13]Okay, this eight blocks these. This eight blocks here gives me eight here.

[00:02:19]and nine blocks this. So I can place nine here.

[00:02:28]Uh there's a three in the four.

[00:02:37]And there's a six and eight.

[00:02:41]Two and four. Uh 157.

[00:02:45]Okay.

[00:02:54]4679 379 3 67 9 Okay, nine blocks here. This nine blocks here. This nine blocks this cell gives me nine here.

[00:03:10]And uh this nine blocks this. This nine blocks here gives me nine on column six.

[00:03:21]Two blocks these. So this would be two.

[00:03:25]Seven blocks here. So this would be seven and this would be four. And this would be six.

[00:03:37]One, three, four, eight.

[00:03:42]Three, four, seven, eight.

[00:03:51]Oh, okay. These are two and four. And here's two. So, this will be four.

[00:03:56]Here's two. Two. Two.

[00:04:01]Two and two gives me two here.

[00:04:30]Okay, here's one and eight. Here's one and eight.

[00:04:43]So that means these cells and uh this cell cannot use one and eight on column uh nine.

[00:04:54]So this will be 18 double and now this four blocks these and this will be used by one or eight. So I get four here and now this would be one and eight.

[00:05:22]Here's one. So this would be eight. And here's one. And here's eight.

[00:05:28]And the last number of box four is six.

[00:05:34]And there's a three and the eight. Eight here gives me three and the eight.

[00:05:46]These are three 47 58 95 69 3 4 5 9 3 9 Three, four, six, seven.

[00:07:12]3 47 9 3 4 5 What am I missing?

[00:07:36]Three 4 3 4 3 4 1 7 Oh!

[00:08:01]six. Um, see I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple again.

[00:08:46]Okay. Three and four. Three and four.

[00:08:49]That means I cannot use three and four here.

[00:08:53]So here's three four double on row seven. That gives me Seven double here. Oh okay. Uh this seven blocks this and the seven will be here. So this cannot be seven which gives me one and the seven and the one blocks here gives me one and this would be five. Five and five gives me five here.

[00:09:25]These are three 47.

[00:09:29]uh three four seven. So this will be six and nine.

[00:09:33]Six is here. So this will be nine. This would be six and nine and nine gives me nine here. Which blocks this cell gives me nine and three.

[00:09:46]And the last number of this column is seven. That gives me seven here. Seven here. Seven and seven gives me seven here. Here's three four double four gives me three and four and three. This would be four. This would be uh six.

[00:10:10]And the last number of this box is three, which gives me three here, four here, four and five.

[00:10:18]Okay, here it is.

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