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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'.
Like a Sudoku
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 18/June/2013


 
  
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Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Talk about anything and everything, but nice to each other - you don't have to agree, but this is not the place for personal attacks. As Sir Paul McCartney said: 'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird' (longer explanation). Enjoy!
Without orphans. Key is the last row.
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shabbir +1
this is one of those you can controversially knock out the 14 option for 5D on the unique rule basis
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way too easy
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Chris +1 (why controversially?)
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Very easy.
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Karl, because me queried the validity of triples and the unique rule. I'm not sure if we ever resolved that one.
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Yeah, I am still having thoughts about the issue Chris. I'm hung up on whether or not other restraints can force an apparent 2x3 non-unique situation into actually having a unique solution. I guess I am waiting for an example to come along :).
In this puzzle one of the 14 combos in 5D is eliminated by W=6. Not sure if this helps my case or not :)
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Very simple but needed possibilities.
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Shabbir +2
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Even if 'validity of triples and the unique rule' is unresolved, no controversy here. Suppose 5D = 14 or 41, then consider 3's in bottom 3 rows:
a) WX would be 37 (can't be 73 because of 21D)
b) RS would be 53 (can't be 35 because of 17A)
c) no place for 3 in 4A!

So, 5D contains 23 and I solved 3 in 18A cell. Easy from there.
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9:09 - with a / the correct guess!
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in this case, gentleman, both options for the 6 squares give the orphan a value of 1,
thus eliminating 14 from 5D -- the uniqueness rule is in effect, isn't it ??
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3s are the key - 4 rows require a 3 and 4 columns that can take a 3 which eliminated 14 / 41 from 5D
(thought of this after reading Don's comment & I think this is an easier way to look at it)
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(also makes 10D 73 without further thot)
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This puzzle is super easy. The only key I needed is that W is the only 6 available for 21D. Eliminate 6 from C and H by just writing in possibilities.
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I'm not sold on the triples for the unique solution rule either. Like big John the 3s were key for me. Forces J=3 and solution falls out. Fun puzzle.
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2:49
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Straightforward, 2019
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