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Kakuro is similar to both sudoku and traditional crossword games.
Like a Crossword
Similar to crosswords, Kakuro has clues both across and down. When you put numbers in the vacant squares, the sum must equal the given clues. This is why the game is sometimes called 'cross sums'.
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Just like a sudoku, you cannot have the same number in a row or column. If a row is broken into 2 areas by a clue, then you can have the same number occuring once in each of the separate areas.
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Hard Kakuro for 1/May/2013


   
  
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Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Orphans needed
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doesn't need orphans. to be able to do this without possibilities is, well, impossible in my opinion
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too easy
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I used orphans
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Using orphans, its quite easy without possibilities
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Chris +1. No orphans needed and would be tough to do without filling in possibilities. Key for me was to recognize that 20A had to have a 1 which eliminated the 23456 combination, which eliminated the 6 from S.
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Chris and me +1
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with possibilities of course, but rather easy!
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Orphans but no possibilities. Couldn't see a way to do it without one or the other. Eliminating the combos for 20A based on the crosses in 33D and 39D was the key for me.
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SAMurai+1
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No possibilities! Lucky, I guess.
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No orphans, of course. Tried it w/o possibilities, but got tangled up in my own bootstraps and had to fall back and fill them in. Should not have been necessary.
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We're going to have to start grading the sins here. I don't get why calculating the orphans and then completing the puzzle without possibilities is somehow less difficult than not using orphans but filling in the possibilities. My first goal is to do the puzzle without either but secondly without More...
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Used orphans but then realized I could have done it without them. Don't see the value of not using possibilities (i.e. doing it all in your head). I do these puzzles as a break from work, not to do work.
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Agree with Paul. Doing it without possibilities is IMO most challenging, doing it without orphans is less of a challenge. When the puzzle lives up to its billing, it's enough of a challenge in its own right, and we need to use both.
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I'm with you, Mike - waited too long to use orphans
(11:12 to do it)
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I view this puzzle as very tough - used orphans late again & spent 12:24
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6:25
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Nada 2018. Fairly easy to see that bottom 3 of 33D are each <6, note that 1s and 2s in bottom 2 rows are limited, and work from there.
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Without orphans, I almost always use possibilities for hard, 2019
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