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Talk:Pencilmark
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It is said that some people use pencil marks to keep track of the candidates that a cell can NOT be.
This technique may be useful in the early stages of solving a puzzle, to identify "pinned" ("locked"?) cells, but is cumbersome in the later stages of solution.
Keith
(I have now made a user account)
