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