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Cage combinations

A cage's sum rules out candidate digits. medium

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No valid combination of the 2-cell cage summing to 8 puts 6 and 7 in R7C4, R8C4, so strike it.

A cage's sum admits only certain digit combinations. Any pencil mark that appears in no valid combination, or is forced out by the digits already placed, can be erased from the cage's cells.