Franken Jellyfish

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The Franken Jellyfish is a fish pattern of the Franken Fish type. This type allows either the defining set or the secondary set to contain boxes, as well as lines.

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This is a fish diagram of a Franken Jellyfish with a defining set of 3 rows with 1 box and a secondary set of 4 columns.

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Here we see a Franken Jellyfish with a defining set of 2 rows with 2 boxes and a secondary set of 4 columns.

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In this example, the defining set contains rows 2 & 8 and boxes 4 & 6. The secondary set contains columns 2, 3, 7 & 8. All the candidates in the defining set (marked with X) are located inside the secondary set. The remaining candidates from these 4 columns can be eliminated.

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