SudoCue - One-Trick Pony

SudoCue offers you a daily One-Trick Pony Sudoku puzzle. This the entry for Thursday, December 18, 2025. Here is a perma-link to this puzzle.

These puzzles were selected for pure solving pleasure. To qualify as a One-Trick Pony a Sudoku must have:

• No more than 6 initial singles to start with.
• At least 3 non-basic steps, everything except singles and locked candidates, are in the solving path.
• All but one solving steps are limited to singles, locked candidates, subsets, basic fish, UR 1 and BUG.
• One advanced step. This is the One Trick. It can be anything except tabling.

If you prefer easier Sudokus, check out the lite page with 4 grades of daily puzzles. For a real challenge, try the Daily Nightmare.

You can choose to play this sudoku online, print this page or select the number string and paste it into a sudoku program that accepts this input.

005407109600050000000000080090600070200001000000000090008913005000000000010040802

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