Big Print Puzzles

Large print sudoku

Three sudoku pages that differ in the size of the grid. All of them can be finished by looking for the one place a digit can go; none needs guessing or pencilled notes.

Which grid size to choose

The size of the grid decides two things at once: how long the puzzle takes and how big the digits can be printed. A 4 by 4 grid has sixteen cells, so on a sheet of paper each digit is very large and the whole puzzle is short. It is the right page for someone who has never done a sudoku, or who wants a short puzzle with the largest possible digits.

The 6 by 6 grid is the step between. It uses the digits 1 to 6, the boxes are two rows tall and three columns wide, and a puzzle is a comfortable spell of looking along rows and columns without the length of the full grid. It suits anyone who finds the newspaper sudoku too long or too small.

The 9 by 9 grid is the classic puzzle. Both of its levels here are on the easy side: plenty of digits are given, and the puzzle is built so that there is always a cell that can be filled for certain. In large print each puzzle takes a whole sheet, which is what makes it readable. If you print for a group, a mix of the three sizes lets everyone at the table pick the one they are comfortable with.