Newspaper Sudoku, Free Online
The sudoku in a daily paper has a particular feel: one puzzle, once a day, sized so it is finishable over a coffee. Betty Bee Sudoku keeps that rhythm and drops the parts that got annoying — the pen, the eraser, and never knowing whether the square you guessed was right.
What makes a newspaper sudoku different
Printed sudoku follows a convention most solvers absorb without noticing: one grid per day, and the difficulty climbs across the week. Monday is a warm-up you can finish on scanning alone. By Friday and Saturday you are chaining techniques together. That escalation is the reason the daily puzzle keeps its hold — it is the same game asking progressively more of you.
The other half of the format is scarcity. One puzzle a day is not a limitation, it is the appeal. It finishes, and then you are done, which is exactly what an infinite feed of puzzles fails to deliver.
What the paper version could never do
Print has no way to tell you that you went wrong. A single mistake early propagates quietly, and twenty minutes later the grid contradicts itself with no clue as to where it broke. You start again, or you give up on that one.
It also cannot un-write a pen stroke, cannot hold a pencil mark neatly in a small square, and cannot remember where you were when you put the paper down. Solvers built workarounds for all three. None of them are pleasant.
The same daily puzzle, online and free
Betty Bee Sudoku publishes a new puzzle every day at five difficulty levels, so you pick the Monday feel or the Saturday one rather than accepting whichever the calendar assigned. It is free, it runs in any browser with nothing to install, and it carries no advertising at all.
Notes go in the corners of a cell and rub out cleanly. Mistakes are flagged rather than discovered forty moves later. The grid saves itself, so closing the tab and coming back after lunch resumes exactly where you left off. If you want the escalation the paper gave you, streaks and daily challenges supply it, and the leaderboards turn it into a comparison if that is your reason for solving.
Questions
I am looking for the sudoku from my local newspaper. Is this it?
No — Betty Bee Sudoku is an independent game and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any newspaper, including the Sacramento Bee, and we do not reproduce any newspaper's puzzles. If your paper has dropped its puzzle page, moved it behind a subscription, or you simply want to solve on a screen, this is a free daily sudoku in the same one-a-day format.
Is it really free?
Yes. A new puzzle every day at any difficulty costs nothing and shows no ads. An optional subscription adds unlimited puzzles beyond the daily one, but nothing about the daily game is paywalled.
Do I have to create an account?
No. You can start solving immediately. An account is only needed if you want your streak, achievements and leaderboard placing to follow you between devices.
Can I print the puzzle to solve on paper?
Not currently. The game is built around the things paper cannot do — mistake checking, clean notes and resuming a half-finished grid — so it is designed for the screen. It works on a phone, tablet or desktop browser.
How hard are the puzzles?
There are five levels, from one solvable by simple scanning to one that needs deliberate technique. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and is solvable by logic alone, so no level ever requires guessing.
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Betty Bee Sudoku is an independent game from Happy Brain Games. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Sacramento Bee or any other newspaper or publisher. Newspaper names appear here only to describe what readers are looking for.