Chute Remote Pairs
Expert
Used by Smart Hint
Two rows (or columns) in the same "chute" (a 3-box band) sharing the same candidate pair in matching columns let you eliminate that pair from the chute's third row.
- Cells that establish the pattern
- Where the conclusion lands
- Candidate ruled out
How it works
- Row 1 and row 2 both carry the exact candidate pair {4, 6} — one in column C, the other in column F — inside the same three-box horizontal chute.
- Between two rows of a chute, a repeated pair like this always resolves so that the pair is fully used up across those two rows — it can't also appear in the chute's third row. Eliminate {4, 6} from C3.