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Swordfish Sudoku diagram

A clean Swordfish candidate diagram with highlighted pattern cells and crossed-out eliminations.

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Candidate schematic illustrating Swordfish eliminations.
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How to read this diagram

Rows 2, 5 and 8 each allow 5 only at the six blue positions, all in columns 2, 5 and 8.

These three rows must occupy those three columns. Remove other 5s from those columns outside the selected rows.

This is a schematic: only the candidates needed for the pattern are shown. It is not a complete playable puzzle.

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