Star Battles: Intro to Star Battles: 1.2
Well done, if you're here I guess you've solved your first Star Battle! Easy, right? Now we can make things more interesting. The biggest tip with Star Battles is that often instead of thinking about where stars can go, it's useful to think about where they *can't* go.
Again, there's a hint waiting if you need it.
Stars per row/col/cage:
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Look at the two-cell regions. We know that each of them must contain one star, even if we don't know where. Imagine the star was in one of those cells - which cells could then *not* contain stars? What about the other option, what cells does that block? Note that there are some cells that can never contain stars, whichever of the two cells in the cage the star ends up in.
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