The framed row still needs two ghosts among three cells. But both green cells sit inside the clue-1 window — a nest that holds only one. So green gives at most one ghost, and the missing one must spill into the yellow cell outside. More pigeons than nests, and something must spill: the famous pigeonhole principle.

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