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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 23/March/2012


 
  
 9 
  
 21 
 
  
 26 
  
 38 
 
  32
  
           
  4
  
   
  5
 30 
     
 
  22
  
         
 
  28
  
       
  
 16 
 
  12
  
   
  17
  
   
 
  35
  
         
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!
Used a chain again
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Had to resort to a chain, as well. Choices narrowed, but not enough for pure logic solution that I could see.
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I used orphans which do not really help and a chain
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Tried it again.still not fully logical.Took a chance on 28 across cell N with a 4 and went all the way
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got it, sort of ....

it's all in the 7's. count the verticals that need a 7. count the horizontals that can give a 7. Now consider if there's enough 7's available if you do NOT use the 7's solution for a specific one of those horizontals ....

that gives a key cell and it all falls into place.
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6:37 with orphans and a couple of chains.
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Struggled. No orphans but chains.
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More hint!

If 28A is the 5689 solution then the 12A can't contain a 7. Think about it.

But we need three 7's for 39, 26 and 38D. And 32 and 22 A can now only provide two of those 7's.

Hence 28A must be the 4789 solution.
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Chris +1. No orphans
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Nice hints Chris. Sort of a glorified trial & error/chain.
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well, me, it's not a 5784698355 whoops type of chain, it's a logic chain ;-)
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Yes, I agree.
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11:11 with orphans and a chain or 2
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(the 1st guess was E=5 - no go
then N=4 finished it off)
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Saw the 7s but couldn't keep in my head, well described Chris, but still needed orphans, 2019
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