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XYZ-Wing
Y-Wing's three-candidate-pivot cousin.
XYZ-Wing is Y-Wing with one extra candidate on the pivot. Now the pivot holds {X, Y, Z}, while the two bivalue wings still have {X, Z} and {Y, Z} and both are peers of the pivot.
Whichever digit the pivot becomes (X, Y, or Z), Z lands in one of the three cells — pivot or a wing. Any cell that sees all three of them cannot be Z. The elimination zone is smaller than Y-Wing — you need a cell that sees pivot AND both wings — but otherwise the reasoning is identical.
When the move applies
Watch for a trivalue cell that's a peer of two bivalue cells whose candidate sets together cover the trivalue's three digits.
The procedure
- Find a trivalue cell P with candidates {X, Y, Z}.
- Find two bivalue peers, W1 = {X, Z} and W2 = {Y, Z}.
- Eliminate Z from any cell that sees P, W1, and W2 all at once.