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Kakuro is similar to both sudoku and traditional crossword games.
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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 21/May/2009


 
  
 10 
  
 27 
 
  
 17 
  
 21 
 
  35
  
           
  3
  
   
  5
 24 
     
 
  10
  
         
 
  30
  
       
  
 12 
 
  8
  
   
  13
  
   
 
  16
  
         
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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!
I solved in 3:52 and I will probably have the slowest time today. This is a very easy puzzle.
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4:25
Straightforward, but not trivial.
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6:38
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Again, I did it without using possibilities, but did have to think a little.
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8:11 took me forever to realize I didn't have a 5 in 27D
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I just went through again to make sure I didn't accidentally shortcut. Maybe I'm wrong, but here was my solution.

Spoiler Alert:

1st easy ones:
Q=6,E=5,T-4,U=9,Z=3

Consider 24Down.
K+W<=8, so W=6,O=9

After that, the possibilities for GJRV demande 1,2,3,4.

Easy to solve from there.
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UrBuddie
You have to eliminate K+W = 9 first as 3+8+7+6 = 24. This does lead to a contradiction but i) it takes a few more steps and ii) this is a very unobvious elimination to attempt.
Once the simple possibilities have been filled in there is a much more obvious elimination in the 27D due to the 4 or 6 in V.
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I know UrBuddie meant K+W>=8, so W=6, but I could not conclude O = 9 (concluded O = 8 or 9). I didn't eliminate 8 until I filled in many other boxes, although I never specifically tried to show K+W is not 9. My next step after W=6 was to notice B,J = (8,9) since the rest of 27D < 5, which implies L = 7 and D = 6.
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3:51
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I retraced my steps, and there are steps that I didn't enter after W=6. My apologies. I did have to go through a series of easy eliminations until both J=24, V=24 which makes G=1, Q=3.

It still seems to me that W=6 was the key.
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I wasn't as quick, but got the 5 easy ones UrBuddie mentioned; and after I figured out that w=6, I figured out that G, J, R and V were all 1-4, adding up to 10 so that B and N had to be 8 or 9 and O couldn't be lower than 8, so P had to be 7. I already knew that A was 8 or 9, and from figuring out More...
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6:52
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4:12
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6:11
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4:56
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4:44 (redone a year later)
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424
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5:14
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try 11:24, UrBuddie!
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easy ish
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11:03 10:03 p.m. 5-21-12
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Easy nada
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3:18 in 2017
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Straightforward as Slartibartfast's hint, 2019
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