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How it works

An X-Wing stretched to three. Three rows where a digit's remaining cells all fall inside the same three columns — each row needs two or three of them, not necessarily all three — must place the digit once per row, one in each column. Every other cell of those three columns can therefore lose the digit. As with X-Wing, rows and columns swap freely.

Try it

Digit 9 is pinned down by rows 1, 6, and 8. Let's pencil in the highlighted cells — every place 9 can still go in those lines — then see why it can't sit anywhere else in columns 6, 7, and 9.

Tap each highlighted cell, 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.

Everywhere 9 can still go in rows 1, 6, and 8 falls inside columns 6, 7, and 9. Three lines each needing 9 once, with only three lines to land in, means one lands in each of columns 6, 7, and 9.

Which means 9 can be crossed out everywhere else in columns 6, 7, and 9.

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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