Arrow Sudoku Rules
Choose your setup, then press play to start Arrow Sudoku.
Can we use cookies to anonymously understand how you use the platform and improve it?
Choose your setup, then press play to start Arrow Sudoku.
Arrow Sudoku completion rate
74%
Available Arrow Sudoku difficulty levels
4
Arrow Sudoku games played today
0
New Arrow Sudoku puzzles this week
0
Read the Academy guide if you want a slower introduction to this variant.
Total Sudoku games played
1,600+
Available Sudoku variants
22
Playable Sudoku pages
4M+
Sudoku Academy lessons
3+
Killer Sudoku, Little Killer Sudoku and X-Sums Sudoku are natural next steps if you enjoy arithmetic-based Sudoku variants.
Avoid looking only at the sum. A valid total still needs to fit the rows, columns and boxes around it.
The arrow rule introduces another layer of deduction, but it also provides extra information that can help guide the solve.
Yes. Notes are useful for tracking possible combinations and comparing different ways an arrow total can be achieved.
Arrow clues are built around totals, so understanding which digit combinations can produce a given sum is often helpful.