Killer sudoku. Fill the grid so every row, column, and 3×3 box holds the digits 1 to 9, using only the cage totals: no digit is printed to start you off.
About Cages
Cages is a free daily killer sudoku from Mind Loft. Killer sudoku takes the printed clues away and replaces them with arithmetic: the 81 squares are divided into dashed cages, each labelled with the total of the digits inside it, and no digit repeats within a cage. Fill the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3×3 box holds the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. The board starts completely empty, and there is always a single, logical solution, no guessing required.
Play it your way: tap a square and a number, pencil in candidates with Notes when a square could go two ways, and lean on the arrow keys and number row on a desktop keyboard. Wrong entries are never flagged, so spotting your own slips is part of the puzzle, and a clean solve earns a perfect score.
A new puzzle drops every day at midnight Eastern, and Sundays step up to a harder Edition with fewer, bigger cages. No app, no signup, play free in your browser, keep a streak, and race the daily leaderboard. The other two sudokus: Cages, the classic 9×9, and Quilt, the jigsaw one with the boxes redrawn.
Cages, in short
How do you play Cages?
Killer sudoku: not one digit is printed. The grid is cut into cages labeled with the total of the digits inside them, and those totals are the whole clue set.
Is Cages free to play?
Yes. Cages is free to play in your browser on Mind Loft, with no app to install and no account required.
When does a new Cages puzzle come out?
A new Cages arrives every day at midnight Eastern time, and Sundays bring the Sunday Edition, the biggest or hardest board of the week.
What kind of puzzle is Cages?
Cages is a daily sudoku from Mind Loft: the daily killer sudoku. It is part of the daily sudoku lineup.
Can I play past Cages puzzles?
Yes. Every past Cages board is in the puzzle archive, a tap away by day.
What other daily sudoku does Mind Loft have?
Sando, Sixes, Towers and Mercury, among others. The Sudoku page lists every one, with a new board for each every day.