The Summer Pack 2026
Free printable sudoku for the long summer afternoons. Twenty puzzles, mixed difficulties, solutions on the back, no signup.
Summer is the season puzzles get done. Long flights, long afternoons, long evenings on a porch. Magazines know it; bookshops clear out their puzzle displays by mid-May because they will sell through by August. The same is true for printable sudoku.
The Sudokly summer pack is a free PDF mix, designed to sit on a clipboard or a beach bag for the months ahead. Twenty puzzles per pack, spread across easy, medium and a touch of hard for the late evenings. Solutions on the back, the way they should be.
What is in the pack
- Eight easy puzzles for the porch and the post-lunch slump
- Eight medium puzzles for the chair under the umbrella
- Four hard puzzles for the quiet hour after everyone else has gone to bed
- A printed solution sheet, folded behind
- A small how-to card on the inside cover for anyone who has not played in a while
The mix is deliberate. Pure easy packs run out fast and pure hard packs intimidate. A balanced pack means you can hand it to almost anyone and they will find something at their level.
How to print it
The PDF is letter and A4 friendly. Print double-sided if your printer supports it; the puzzles are on the front of each sheet and the solutions on the back, which keeps things tidy. If you only have single-sided printing, the pack still works, you just end up with twice the pages.
Staple along the left edge if you want a booklet. Two staples are better than one. If you do not have a stapler, a paperclip on the top edge works for a road trip.
Why a summer pack now
Summer holidays start in different weeks across different countries, but the rhythm is the same: school empties out, work slows down, days lengthen. Puzzles get a wider audience in those weeks than in any other part of the year. If you have a holiday coming up, this is the pack to print before you go.
If you do not have a holiday but you do have a porch, a hammock or a swimming pool you sit beside while a child does laps, the pack works there too.
The puzzle-on-a-beach problem
Sun bleaches paper and saltwater wrinkles it. If you are taking the pack to a beach, slide it into a plastic folder or a freezer bag. The puzzle will survive a sandy afternoon if it stays sheltered. The pencil should ride along too; ink runs.
Who to give it to
Older relatives who used to play in the paper and stopped because the print got small. Anyone who has a long flight ahead. Anyone with a kid who asks for "something to do" between scheduled activities. Anyone who appreciates a tidy half-hour of focused nothing.
The kids' supplement
If you have children under eight, the kids' pack uses four-by-four grids with digits 1 to 4. It is genuinely solvable for early readers, and the four-by-four grid scales down friendlier than a full nine-by-nine. Grab it alongside the summer pack and you cover every age in the family.
Get the summer pack at the mixed printable page, or pull a same-difficulty pack from the easy, medium or hard shelves. Free, no signup, no email. Print, fold, go.
Keep reading
- Starting a Sudoku Without GuessingThe first ten placements are where most guessing happens. A clean opening routine that finds real moves instead of speculation.
- What to Print Before You GoSudoku is a near-perfect travel puzzle: no battery, no signal, no fuss. What to pack for a flight, road trip or weekend away.
- Systematic Scanning: The End of Random StaringMost stuck moments are scanning problems, not puzzle problems. A clean digit-by-digit method that finds placements where random scanning would not.