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Hard tier Technique 17 of 31 Used by Smart Hint

Cage/Unit Overlap

If every live cage assignment puts a digit in its overlap with a house, that digit leaves the rest of the house.

How it works

  1. 1Take a cage crossing a box boundary and enumerate its live cell-by-cell assignments, not just its unordered sum sets.
  2. 2The cage still has possible cells on both sides, so ordinary Captured Candidates cannot claim the whole cage lies in this box.
  3. 3Yet every live assignment puts 8 somewhere among the cage cells inside the box; the outside portion never carries it.
  4. 4The box's 8 is therefore locked into that overlap. Strike 8 from every non-cage cell in the box.
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