Three 3s in a Row
Hard
Used by Smart Hint
3-3-3 side by side: all four vertical edges crossing the run are lines.
- Edge the technique adds
- Cells that establish the pattern
How it works
- Read it as two overlapping adjacent pairs rather than as one new pattern.
- The left pair is two adjacent 3s, so their outer edges are lines: the far-left edge, and the edge between the middle and right cells.
- The right pair is another two adjacent 3s, giving the edge between the left and middle cells, and the far-right edge.
- Between them that's every vertical edge crossing the run — four lines from three clues, and the whole run is fenced.
- Each 3 now has its left and right sides drawn, which is two of the three it needs. So each has exactly one of its top and bottom — the run is fenced, but which way it bulges is still open.
- A vertical 3-3-3 works identically, with the four horizontal edges.