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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/August/2011


 
  
 16 
  
 9 
  
 21 
  
 38 
   
  13
  
       
  
 14 
 
  33
  
           
   
  28
 17 
       
  29
  
       
  
 16 
  
 13 
 
  27
  
         
   
  28
  
       
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Got bored and used orphans, nice puzzle though
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difficult without orphans, no doubt there are other ways, but mine was to show however the 46 pair in 21D fell, U=7 and it all falls into place
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Still no pictures. I wonder why.
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This was one of the fastest hard puzzles ever for me.
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Chris, I am so ignorant, what is an orphan and what is 21D and U=7? May that be the reason I dont even attempt a difficult one?
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didn't think it was too tough w/out orphans
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esther,
The LETTERS represent the blank cells. Starting at the upper left and moving horizontal one row at a time label the cells A-B-C-D. The puzzles always have 26 cell. Therefore U is cell where 27A (row totaling 27 Across) intersects with 16D (column totaling 16 down).

Orphans are More...
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Esther, orphans are the little sticky-out squares like on the end of '28' and the beginning of '29.' You can figure out their sum by adding up all the sideways numbers and subtracting all the vertical numbers. Sometimes it helps. (Like if it's 18, then both numbers have to be 9.)

'21D' is More...
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I must be making a mistake and lucking out. I've done it three times without orphans and I'm no pro like Chris.
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No orphans necessary; not hard.
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Really quite simple. After filling in the obvious values, work on the two 28 across rows and also the 27 across row. Contraints quickly add up and values filled in.
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No orphans, straightforward.
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Yes, no orphans
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Yes, not too hard.
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No orphans - you can fill in a bunch of 6s to start with, then it's the two 28As like others have said... Hint: before you get to the 28As, make sure you have done all of your eliminations in 21D then, looking at both 28As in the context of 21D and 38D, the solution will be fairly straightforward (like others have said)...
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10 minutes with help from orphans at the end
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No orphans, straightforward.
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5:20
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14:15 - nodded off!
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9:38 (see my 1st comment)
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8:31 on the redo
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3:10
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4:48 in 2017
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Not getting how the 28As 'solve' it as others have said, I needed orphans, 2018
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