GridWits
Expert tier Technique 24 of 31 Used by Smart Hint

W-Wing

Two cells with the same pair, joined by a strong link — the digit not in the link falls anywhere seeing both.

How it works

  1. 1Find two cells, not seeing each other, whose candidates are the same pair {a,b}.
  2. 2Find a house where a has exactly two homes left (a strong link), one seeing the first cell and one seeing the second.
  3. 3One end of that link must be a, which forces the cell it sees to be b — so the two cells cannot both avoid b.
  4. 4Any cell seeing both of them therefore cannot be b.
Next in the ladder XYZ-Wing →

Like XY-Wing, but the pivot keeps a third candidate — so the elimination needs cells that see all three.