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Skyscraper & Kite

How it works

Find a digit with exactly two candidate cells in each of two rows (or two columns), where one cell from each row shares a column. If that shared cell isn't the digit, its own row forces the digit into the row's other cell — and since the two shared cells can't both be the digit (they share a column), at least one row's *other* cell always ends up holding it. Any cell that can see both of those other cells loses the digit either way.

Try it

Look at Row 1, Column 3, Row 1, Column 9, Row 7, Column 3, and Row 7, Column 7 — two rows (or two columns) where 7 has only two candidates each, with one cell from each line sharing a column (or row). Let's pencil them in, then see why 7 can't survive at cells that see both of the two that *don't* share it.

Tap each of Row 1, Column 3, Row 1, Column 9, Row 7, Column 3, and Row 7, Column 7, then tap every digit that's still possible there — check what's already used in that cell's row, column and box. Press "Check my work" when you're ready.

The two shared cells can't both be 7 — they share a line — so whichever one misses out leaves its own row or column with nowhere else for 7 but its other cell. One of those two other cells always ends up with 7 — we just can't say which.

Which means 7 can be crossed out of every cell that sees both of those two.

Tap a highlighted cell, then tap its red digit on the pad below to cross it out — the highlighted cells show why it can't go there.

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