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*247 *27 5 | 1 68 38 | *47 9 36
49 6 1 | 2 7 359 | *45 8 35
79 8 3 | 59 56 4 | 567 1 2
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6 3 2 | 47 14 17 | 8 5 9
8 1 4 | 59 3 59 | *26 *26 7
5 9 7 | 8 2 6 | 1 3 4
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1 27 9 | 6 458 578 | 3 247 58
*237 4 68 |*37 9 1578 | *256 *267 1568
37 5 68 | 347 148 2 | 9 467 168
I was stumped with this one and I may have found a solution. I'm asking if you experts could confirm if I'm right, and maybe tell me what technique this is called. I marked the relevant squares to make it easier to see.
If the 2 were removed from r8c1, then r1c1=2, r1c2=7, r1c7=4, r2c7=5, opening a type 1 unique rectangle of 2,6 in r5c78 and r8c78, therefore r8c8=7. But this is contradicting because removing the 2 from r8c1 creates a naked pair of 37 on the same row.. So r8c1 must be a 2?