Pointing

Pointing applies when a candidate appears only in one row or column within a box


  1. Let’s look at this box
Pointing Sudoku technique example

  1. All cells that might contain the value 4 are located in the same column. So 4 must definitely be placed in one of these two cells
Pointing technique - spot the candidates

  1. This means that 4 can’t appear anywhere in the column outside the box
Pointing technique applied to a grid