Practise: Naked Triple
Look only at the highlighted row, column or box. Which three squares together use just three small digits?
Five prepared note squares are in the highlighted unit. Find the three squares that share just three digits first; do not try to place a digit yet.
Example 1 of 4
Your turn first
Which three squares belong together?
Look only at the prepared notes in the highlighted unit. Which three squares together contain just 2/6/9? Then identify which of those notes disappear elsewhere.
Remember
A Naked Triple is simple: three cells use only three digits between them, so those digits disappear from every other cell in that unit. The triple itself does not set their order yet.
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