3-cell Kakuro run summing to 23

Single combination — fully locked

1 combination.

23
A 3-cell Kakuro run with the clue 23 above or to the left.
Always present
689
Never present
123457

Valid digit combinations

  • 689

How to use this in play

A 3-cell Kakuro run summing to 23 has only one valid digit set: {6, 8, 9}. The order along the run is still up to the perpendicular runs that intersect each cell, but no other digit can appear anywhere along this run, so all five other digits are immediately ruled out as candidates for every cell.

Locked digits: 6, 8, 9. These digits each appear in every valid combination, so they each must occupy one cell of the run; useful when a perpendicular run rules any of them out of a candidate cell.

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