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Naked Triple

Intermediate Removes candidates Used in: Sudoku, Killer Sudoku, Calcudoku, Futoshiki

Naked Triple

Three cells in a unit between them hold only three candidate digits (each cell shows two or three of them). Those three digits are reserved for those three cells, so they can be removed from every other cell in the unit.

How to spot it

Three cells in a unit whose candidates are drawn from the same three digits (two or three each).

What you can conclude

Remove those three digits from the rest of the unit.

Worked example

Three cells reading {1,4}, {4,8} and {1,8} lock up 1, 4 and 8; a fourth cell reading {1,4,6} loses 1 and 4, leaving 6.

Related techniques

Naked Pair · Hidden Pair · Hidden Triple · Naked Quad