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Logic-puzzle solvers and editors

Step-by-step solvers, editors and generators — for the next move, not a pasted solution.

Can a tool show the next move without spoiling the whole grid?

Yes — that is what Solvers & tools (14 sites) is for. Ask for the next logical step (SudokuWiki, HoDoKu, step helpers) instead of a one-click fill. Pasting a full solution teaches little; a step that explains why a cell must be 7 does.

A solver is not a cheat button

Asking why the next step holds is different from pasting the answer. SudokuWiki is a strategy book. HoDoKu and Sudoku Explainer are for ratings and drill. SudokuSolver.net is faster if you only want the fill — you will not learn much.

Variants and Japanese types

Variants: f-puzzles and SudokuPad. Japanese editing: Penpa+. Connectivity at scale: Noqx. Check that your rule set is supported before you paste a grid.

Rules live elsewhere

Puzzle Rules for the text; the category pages for play. Tool URLs move; if one dies, write to us.

Related guides

When a solver helps (and when it ruins the grid)Solvers, CSP & graph methods

Solvers & tools

14
SudokuWikiFree

Andrew Stuart's step-through solver, and the strategy pages are the ones people bookmark.

Open → f-puzzlesFree

The default web editor for Sudoku variants. Build a grid, send the link, or just solve.

Open → SudokuSolver.netFree

Paste a 9×9 and it fills. You can also ask for the next step instead of the whole answer.

Open → SudokuPadFree

The variant player a lot of people use now, and it edits too. There's an app and a Steam build.

Open → Penpa+Free

A fat editor for Japanese types: lots of shapes and marks, and it will ingest a puzz.link.

Open → HoDoKuFree

A free desktop trainer and generator. Techniques are split very fine — the usual drill board.

Open → Nonogram SolverFree

Type the row and column clues; it solves the Nonogram and leaves a few technique notes.

Open → Puzzle RulesFree

Clean rule pages for dozens of types. Fastest way to learn a grid you haven't seen.

Open → NoqxFree

An ASP solver for 170-plus types. Connectivity puzzles tend to come back quickly.

Open → Nikoli Puzzle SolverFree

Z3 under the hood, 100-plus types, including hex and triangle boards.

Open → NoqFree

A grid solver with a quiet page and decent coverage of Nikoli-ish types.

Open → pzprRTFree

Yajilin, Heyawake, Masyu, Slitherlink, Tapa — this one will chew those.

Open → Cross+AFreemium

Part program, part encyclopaedia: hundreds of grid types, solvers attached.

Open → Sudoku ExplainerFree

The old rater. It scores a grid and names the technique behind each step.

Open →
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