Unique Rectangle Type 4

This Unique Rectangle technique takes other candidates within the unit into account


  1. We look for additional candidates in two Unique Rectangle cells again, but this time we ignore the extra candidates and focus on the UR candidates themselves
Unique Rectangle type 4 - initial example

  1. If one of the UR candidates is no longer possible in any other cell of a unit that contains both cells with the extra candidates, the other UR candidate can be eliminated from those UR cells
Unique Rectangle type 4 - Check unique candidates

  1. Consider this example. The candidate 6 cannot be placed anywhere else inside the block, so we cannot delete it from our Unique Rectangle cells
Unique Rectangle type 4 - candidate '6' can not be eliminated

  1. This means that we need to delete 5
Sudoku grid after applying Unique Rectangle type 4 technique