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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 26/May/2012


   
  
 21 
  
  
 30 
  
 23 
  
 
  25
 3 
          
  3
  
    
  8
 10 
      
  18
  
          
  
 4 
 
  17
  
          
 
  8
  
    
  6
  
    
 
  21
  
          
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!
Chris  From Fleurance
without orphans by working on 21A and 25A
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Karl  From IL
I must've missed something, because I needed orphans and a chain.
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Shabbir  From Dubai
Needed Orphans
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John  From Canada
23 down has an 8 either up or down.Choose the right location and use orphans then go all the way
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Joe  From NY
I used orphans and a whole lot of time. Brutal puzzle for me.
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Mike  From LA
Chris +1. No orphans, no chains. Must have been having a good day, because it seemed fairly easy. 21A is the key; look at the max values W & Y can have, and that limits what X & Z can be. Other eliminations leave only two places for 1's in 10D and 23D, and that forces other values in 18A and 17A. It all falls into place.
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big John  From Chicagoland
5:28 - dunno if I used a chain
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big John  From Chicagoland
oh, yeah, John - I picked the right place for the 8 and didn't need orphans
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Paul  From Canada
Mike, I don't get the logic. How can you calculate a max value for Y without using orphans. Y is an orphan. I get a max value of 9.
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Chris  From Fleurance
it's in the four corners of 21A and 25A. if you have 8 in one corner, you don't get 56 in the corresponding horizontal corner. You do get 56 in the opposite diagonal corner.

That's enough to eliminate the 5 from the 17D and 21A intersection.

The 12,12,12 trio ensure there's a 2 either More...
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Paul  From Canada
big John + 1.
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Jimmy  From Scotland
Orphans and Chris from Fleurance's hints, again thanks, 2019
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Anna  From QLD, Australia
8:13
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