Pointing Pairs: When a Block Points Down a Line

Four cells are open in the shaded block, and the row running across its top has two more. No cell shows a single color and there is no pair or triple to find, so stop reading cells and follow one color instead.

Look at the two dark cells along the top of the block. They are the only two cells in the whole block that can still take Red. You do not need to know which of the two gets it. What matters is that this block’s Red sits somewhere along that row.

This block will have its Red in one of those two cells. A row can hold only one Red, so this row’s Red is already inside the block. No cell further along the row can be Red, so both other cells lose the dot.

One of those cells was showing Red and Light Green. With Red gone, only Light Green is left, so place it. Look at where the answer landed: outside the block you were reading.