GridWits
Easy tier Technique 5 of 31 Used by Smart Hint

Low Corner Clue

A 0 or 1 in a grid corner rules out both outer sides, because those two sides must match.

How it works

  1. 1This cell sits in a grid corner — its corner dot touches only these two edges (top and left), nowhere else to go.
  2. 2A loop can never dead-end, so that dot needs exactly 0 or 2 lines — meaning top and left always match: both lines, or both blank.
  3. 3With a clue of 1, both being lines would already total 2 — too many. So both must be blank. (A clue of 3 or more works the same way in reverse: both would have to be lines.)
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  • Edge ruled out
  • Cells that establish the pattern
Next in the ladder High Corner Clue →

A 3 in a grid corner forces both outer sides to be lines, because the two inner sides alone cannot reach 3.