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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 22/January/2013


   
  
 33 
  
 14 
  
 12 
  
 36 
 
 
  30
 13 
         
  15
  
           
  24
  
     
  
 18 
 
  
 11 
     
  6
 3 
     
 
  31
  
         
 
  25
  
         
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!
Easy with orphans
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Maybe I missed something, but I found this one very challenging. Needed orphans and a chain to gain insight into interactions.
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To make 33D work, either R or W need to be 6. Which if you think about it will eliminate 5's from 31A and 7's from 25A (S and X are key to this logic). 33D now has no 5's which makes it 126789 - N=1. Orphans then make it easy.
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I did it without orphans, but it wasn't pretty.
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Me, I don't get the logic that requires 6 in R or W. please enlighten.

Thx.
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Basic stuff led to F=2, which leaves the following possible solutions with a 2 for 33D...
A=78, F=2, K=89, N=1234, R=56789, W=6789
126789 has a 6
234789 not possible
235689 has a 6
245679 has a 6



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me's 33D logic needs orphans, I think
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I used orphans AFTER solving for N=1.
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of course N=134 in above analysis

I think you got it, me,
but I'm still a little groggy!
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I got it, me. With the 3 and 4 in the 33D orphan,
the 5 and 6 at the bottom or 33D require 2s in 3D.
I'm definitely not where you are (yet)
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but, anyhow, aren't you proud of me, me? (!)
You know, I sing pretty good too me me me ...
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LOL.

Looking at 36D ---> P=123 which means I=45 which along with E=45 means H=3. 14D has only one solution B=6,G=1,L=7, thus F=2.
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John +1
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Karl + 1.
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no orphans, but it takes a while.
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No orphans and a mental chain. About 9 min, with multiple kid interruptions.
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Orphans and Me's logic
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8:31
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Thanks for the explanation(s), all. Tough one.
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Straightforward with what me said & orphans, 2019
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