puzzle 48 seafood

[services31]

totally confused by the sword fish in this puzzle i had lots more 5 pencil marked than the hint suggested..much watch more help videos

[coolmaybeprogamer]

I can't pass it too :(

[OverThere]

Some of the hints can be awfully hard to follow. Here is a screenshot showing the puzzle #48 swordfish:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2818081732

The blue squares show the swordfish pattern. The swordfish locks the '5s' into the three rows and three columns. This means that '5' can not be placed elsewhere in the rows or columns. You can see that this works as trying to place a '5' in either one of the yellow marked squares means that it becomes impossible to place '5s' to cover the three rows and columns of the swordfish.

Since it is impossible to complete the puzzle by placing '5s' in the yellow marked squares, the potential '5s' marked in yellow can be eliminated. [the '5' in box row 4, column 7 can also be eliminated, but the puzzle solves anyway.]

This leaves '9' as the only possibility for for the row 8, column 5 square and '1' as the only possibility for the row 8 column 2 square.

Lots more numbers are revealed after you get those two.