Practise: Pointing Pair
This puzzle is picked so that the easy moves run out and exactly the Pointing Pair gets you going again. Solve as far as you can — when nothing obvious is left, the pattern is waiting for you.
Skip the obvious cells and start right where the technique is needed.
How to spot it
Go box by box. For each missing digit, mark where it could go inside the box. If those cells all share a row or a column, you have a pointing pair. Then look along that line beyond the box and remove the digit from the cells there.
Put it to use
Where you will meet it
Medium grids are where this move starts to matter: the obvious cells run out and the pattern takes over.
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