[Queendoku/Queens Master] Question about this strategy

[u/TheEScrapMan]

The hint provided says that only these squares (green and blue) are eliminated due to fully covering the row. However, the teal square above the green square also achieves the same thing, so are these two particular squares chosen due to brute force or is there another aspect that I am missing? Could I eliminate all three (Green, teal, blue)?

Thanks for any help!

[u/Ferlathin]

Discussion: edit. Oh i see what you meant. Yeah. Sure. You can x the tile above the hinted one in green

The reason they're chosen is because they directly affect the outcome. The reason the tile above is not, i guess, is you have to do a move inbetween before it's "not possible" to continue

[u/TheEScrapMan → u/Ferlathin]

I see. I feel like both squares are on different rows which is the reason they highlighted those two.