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title: "Easy Straights: free printable with answers"
description: "Free printable easy Straights with answers. A gentle small grid that solves in a few minutes, with the answer on page two. No sign-up."
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# Easy Straights

An easy Straights is a small grid, the best place to learn the rule: each run of white cells is a set of consecutive numbers. Every one has exactly one solution, printed on page two.

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Difficulty

Larger grids with fewer givens are harder. Every puzzle has one solution.

5×5 grid. Each run of white cells between the black cells is a set of consecutive numbers.

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Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the grid.

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Two pages: the puzzle and its answer. Every puzzle has one solution, checked by the same engine as our KDP studio.

## Want the whole book?

This makes one puzzle. Sign up to turn it into a full Straights book for Amazon KDP: hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as print-ready PDFs.

[Build the full book](https://app.oncebooks.com/publisher-studio/straights/edit?from=straights&v=2&s=eyJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiRUFTWSIsImNvbG9yVGhlbWUiOnsidGhlbWVJZCI6ImNsYXNzaWMiLCJvdmVycmlkZXMiOnt9fX0)

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The puzzle and its answer, as they print.

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## How to solve straights

Fill the white cells so every row and column holds distinct digits, and each run of white cells between the black cells is a set of consecutive numbers.

### The method

1. Spot the runs. The black cells split each row and column into runs. A run of three white cells holds three consecutive numbers in any order.
2. Use the length. A run of length L can only hold numbers within a window L wide, so its highest and lowest digits are L apart.
3. Respect the whole line. Digits never repeat across a full row or column, and a black clue digit is excluded from the white cells of its line.
4. Narrow the windows. A given digit fixes a run’s window. Cross rows against columns until each cell has one option.

**The one rule**

Distinct digits per line, and each run a set of consecutive numbers.

**What the answer page shows**

The completed grid is printed at the back.

**How the grades differ**

Bigger grids bring longer runs and fewer givens.

**Good for**

Solvers who like sudoku with a twist.

## Making a whole Straights book?

This page makes one puzzle. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the [KDP Straights maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-straights-maker) generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and solutions PDF.

## More printable Straights

- [Medium Straights](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights/medium)
- [Hard Straights](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights/hard)
- [Large Straights](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights/large)
- [Straights for kids](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights/for-kids)
- [Straights for beginners](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights/for-beginners)

[See every printable Straights](https://www.oncebooks.com/straights)

## Questions

**Are these easy straights free to print?**

Yes. Generate the puzzle above and print it with its answer, at no cost and with no sign-up.

**Does every puzzle have one solution?**

Yes. Every puzzle is generated and checked so the clues fix exactly one solution, verified before it prints. The answer is on the second page.

**Can I make a Straights book to sell on KDP?**

Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. The KDP Straights maker generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and solutions PDF.