GridWits

Naked Quad

Hard Used by Smart Hint

Four cells in a row or column whose candidates combine to exactly four heights — eliminate those heights elsewhere in the line.

1 2 2 3 3 4 1 4 2 4 5

How it works

  1. Four cells whose candidates between them cover only four heights: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
  2. Four cells, four heights — all four are consumed inside that group, whatever order they end up in.
  3. Strike them from the row's remaining cell, which leaves it a 5.
  4. Quads are the last naked subset worth hunting in a five-line: a five-cell version would have nothing left to eliminate from.