These are the answers to the Puzzle Page Killer Sudoku for August 20, 2022, puzzle ID 821. The board below is the completed 6×6 grid exactly as it looks in the app once every square is filled .
Killer Sudoku is one of 20 puzzle types published in Puzzle Page, and this date carried 9 puzzles in total — you can see all of them on the August 20, 2022 page. To work through this game date by date, use the full Killer Sudoku archive, or step back to August 17, 2022.
Because Killer Sudoku is solved with digits rather than letters, the board above is the finished arrangement — every cell filled exactly as the app accepts it. Compare a single row or block against your own grid rather than copying the whole thing, and the rest usually falls into place from the constraints you already have.
Puzzle Page numbers each game separately, so the ID on this page belongs to Killer Sudoku alone — a Sudoku published the same day carries a different one. If the grid here stops matching your screen the app has been updated; say so in the comments and it gets re-checked. Every grid on this site is captured from the finished puzzle rather than copied from another answers site.
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How Puzzle Page Killer Sudoku Works
Sudoku with cages. Each dashed cage sums to a printed total, and digits never repeat inside a cage.
Tips for Puzzle Page Killer Sudoku
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Learn the fixed combinations: a two-cell cage summing to 3 is always 1+2; 17 is always 8+9.
- 2
Use the rule that each row, column and box sums to 45 — a cage crossing a boundary reveals the leftover.
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Small cages with extreme totals are the best starting points.
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Cage totals constrain candidates before normal Sudoku logic even begins, so work them first.
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Learn the fixed cages: a two-cell cage summing to 3 is 1+2, to 17 is 8+9, and a three-cell cage summing to 6 is 1+2+3. These need no working out.
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Every row, column and box totals 45. If a cage overhangs a box by one cell, that cell equals the cage total minus 45 — a free placement.
Puzzle Page Killer Sudoku Facts
| Puzzle type | Killer Sudoku |
|---|---|
| Date | August 20, 2022 |
| Puzzle ID | 821 |
| Grid size | 6 x 6 |
| Theme | — |
| Answer words | — |