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Showing posts with label skyscraper. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 September 2020

Solution to Example from Sudoku no 558

Hodoku explains it as follows, with reference to the picture below.

Row 2 can have its 7 in 2 different squares, both marked in green.

Row 9 can also have its 7 in 2 different squares, both marked in green.

The 7s could be in:

R2C5 and  R9C6

or

R2C5 and R9C7

or 

R2C7 and R9C6

Whichever combination you choose, 7 must be removed as a candidate from R3C6.

It calls this a skyscraper: