GridWits

Naked Pair

Medium Used by Smart Hint

Two cells in a row or column share the exact same two candidate heights — remove those heights from the rest of the line.

1 3 1 3 1 3 4 1 2 3

How it works

  1. The first two cells of this row are down to the same two heights, {1, 3}.
  2. Whichever way round they fall, between them they use up the row's 1 and its 3.
  3. So neither height can appear anywhere else in the row. Strike both from the other two cells.
  4. That happens to settle them here — a 4 and a 2 — but the pair itself is still unresolved. Eliminations first, placements follow.