Partially Locked Triples (degenerate)
Points. Three cells can be partially locked in the
intersection of a cell similar to a Locked Triple thus causing eliminations.
In some cases, there can be simpler methods that produce the same
eliminations.
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Partial Locked Triple.
The three blue marked cells are locked in box 2. The digit 5 is also locked
in row 1. Candidates 4,6, and 8 can be removed from the box, and candidate 5
can also be removed from row 1.
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Partial Locked Triple, degenerate. The three blue marked cells are locked in box 5. The digit 2 is
also locked in column 5 thus eliminating the red candidate. This pattern
degenerates to the locked Candidates method below.
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Locked Candidates In
this case the two digit 8s in box 5 become locked candidates in column 6,
thus removing the same red digit 8
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