Green cells are watched by both clues; blue only by the 1, pink only by the 2. A window reaches one step, diagonals included — so overlaps exist only between neighbors and near-neighbors. Distant clues share nothing, and comparing them is wasted time. Compare neighbors only. This count-diagonals-as-one distance is called the Chebyshev distance.

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