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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 22/April/2009


   
  
 17 
  
 37 
  
 39 
  
 18 
 
 
  30
 11 
         
  35
  
           
   
  17
 24 
     
  
 3 
 
  23
  
     
  
 15 
 
 
  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!
I had to do some guessing.
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20:21 one for sorrow, two for joy ...
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Wow, I never really got the hang of this one. I'm sure it was easy to get A,E,F,J,Q,V. But, then I was stuck. I finally used some extended logic eliminations and solved it.

Was there a better way?
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I don't see a better way. This one was tough. I resorted to 'what ifs' really early and it took forever.
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Definately hard, but not the worst (assuming I didn't make a fortuitous mistake). After the start...
****** Sol'n Alert ********

I noticed 30, 35 and 23 across all had 6's in the (37, 39 18 down columns), so there are no other 6's in these columns. Next, 37 down was either (9,8,7,6,5,2) More...
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4:04
I started with W/O =3 ~ J=2 Q=1
you'll have A=9 F=8 V=2 easy
Then 39D has only one 4 option Y=4 then its just fill'er in.
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Greg, How did you eliminate L=4 as a possibility?
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Followed Steve to eliminating the 4,3 option in 37. Then concentrated on the 17. It must contain a 2 or 4, M reduces to 5 or 7, and quickly deduce it contains an 8. With M =5or7 D<>8, so N=8 and he rest follows easily.
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17:32 I figured either L or Y must be 4 in 39 down. First I tried L=4, and things fell into place quite nicely until I ran into a contradiction that ruled out L=4, so then Y must be 4. (I actually like it when the first of two possibilities turns out to be the wrong one. It takes more time but More...
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21:51
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1722, no guessing
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5:40
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Without orphans and only one key elimination (L is not 4: More columns require 7s than rows that permit them!)

Amazingly, rest of puzzle is straightforward.
a. Because Y=4, 37D must contains 256789
b. 18D must contain 567, so solve 5s in columns right to left.
c. Rest of puzzle is easy (although I didn't at first see Steve's 6s strategy, I can see its usefulness).
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Orphans and some hard work, 2019
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