Hidden Pairs



Hidden Pair

If there are two cells in a house (row, column, box) where there are two candidates that appear nowhere outside these cells in the same house - those candidates must be placed in the two cells.

All other candidates can therefore be eliminated from these two cells.

Take a look at column C5.
R2C5 and R7C5 both have '2' and '5' as candidates. Also, '2' and '5' are not candidates of any other cell in this column.
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