Advanced clue
Also known in the clue library as Greater than (quantitative).
Two questions matter more than the pattern itself: does this clue give you everything now, or only later — and does it become a mark on the board, or a note you have to keep separately?
The boundary eliminations land immediately, but the gap keeps tightening as the ordered category fills in. Re-check it as values get placed.
Every stage of this clue is a mark on the board.
Reading the clue is half the job. These are the methods that turn it into board progress.
Reading a comparative clue for the extremes it rules out, not just the comparison itself.
Linking several comparative clues together into one ordered chain, so each new link tightens both ends.
Combining two comparative or offset clues that share a reference point into a new deduction neither clue gives up alone.
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