Hidden Single
Medium
Used by Smart Hint
A digit guaranteed to appear somewhere in this run has only one cell left that can hold it.
- Cells that establish the pattern
- Where the conclusion lands
- Digit ruled out
How it works
- The 16-in-two across run must be {7, 9} — and 9 is guaranteed to appear somewhere in it.
- But the first cell also belongs to the 7-in-two down run, whose combinations (1+6, 2+5, 3+4) never contain a 9.
- The 9 has only one cell left that can hold it — the second one. Place it.