GridWits
Easy tier Technique 2 of 31 Used by Smart Hint

Hidden Single

A digit has only one possible cell left in a row, column, or box — even if that cell has other candidates.

How it works

  1. 1Pick a digit and a house, and look at every cell in that house that could still take it.
  2. 2If there is exactly one, that cell must hold the digit — whatever else its own pencil marks still say.
  3. 3This fires constantly on a Killer board because cage arithmetic prunes candidates unevenly, often leaving a digit just one home.
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A cage's total and size limit which distinct digit sets can live in it.