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What is Jellyfish? How to Solve Sudoku

What it is

The four-line version of X-Wing (two lines) and Swordfish (three). If a digit's spots in four rows all fall within the same four columns, remove it from the rest of those columns.

How to spot it

Pick one digit, collect four rows where it has two to four spots, and check whether they use only four columns in total.

Example

794563891278913292795248949647898279612792493547929548269269731279267982913549469369154728696293429187551738694694924829279267956913

Yellow cells are where to look, orange cells are the reason, red digits are candidates you can remove, and the blue digit is the answer.

Think about 9 only. In column 3, column 4, column 7, and column 8, every spot for 9 (R2C3, R9C3, R2C4, R5C4, R9C4, R2C7, R8C7, R9C7, R5C8, and R8C8) is inside row 2, row 5, row 8, and row 9. Each of those four lines needs one 9, so the 9s of row 2, row 5, row 8, and row 9 are used up here. So the other cells of row 2, row 5, row 8, and row 9 (R2C6, R2C9, R5C1, R5C2, R5C9, R8C6, and R9C5) can't be 9.

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