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If you eliminate either r2c2 or r2c4 from the Kraken X-wing example, you still get the same eliminations. The resultant pattern is a 2 string kite and a conjugate pair, where one cell of the conjugate pair is a peer of one cell of the 2 string kite. This occurs more often than the Kraken X-wing. The Kraken X-wing pattern has one cell of an x-wing merged with a one cell of a 2 string kite. This concept of adding a conjugate pair to an existing pattern also works for the empty rectangle technique. It gives an extra cell elimination. Nienhaus