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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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Hard Kakuro for 29/March/2012


   
  
 3 
  
 34 
  
 25 
    
 
  12
 11 
      
  
 17 
  
  18
  
          
  
 11 
   
  30
 7 
        
  10
  
        
  
 13 
  
 
  17
  
          
   
  23
  
        
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
orphans and a bit of work again
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Shabbir  From Dubai
Chris +1
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Karl  From IL
Chris +2; a bit more than a bit.
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John  From Canada
Orphans don't help me.a lot of work but no chains
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Joe  From NY
no orphans or chains
I just worked on 34D and 25D and kept eliminating
took 7 minutes, though
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big John  From Chicagoland
tough without orphans - you used chains, right, Joe?
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jeff  From nj
yough one the key was the 9 in 34 down
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Plum  From SW Michigan, USA
22:44 without orphans. Just slogged through trying eliminations then chains.
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me  From here
No orphans, one small chain to decide where the 9 in 34D went (B or X), easy from there to the finish. Key for me was to eliminate 5 from square B which leaves only one solution for 34D.

Would be interested in a solution that didn't use any chains.
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Mike  From LA
No orphans and no chains (except for a chain you can do in your head, without trial and error). You can prove that S = 6 or 7 and U = 4 or 5, which means B or W is 9 and B cannot be 6, which means C cannot be 5. That tells you about 25D and everything falls into place.
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me  From here
The chain I refered to was the 'in your head chain' that I'm guessing you used to show B can't be 6, but I used it to show X cannot be 9, therefore B had to 9.
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LuCa  From Lisbon
Joe +1,
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kakuroaddict  From aus
Mike +1
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BRD  From Minneapolis
2:50 no orphans, no chain
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big John  From Chicagoland
right, BRD. that's about how long I took too, tho I worked it a few times and knew where to start
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big John  From Chicagoland
oops, that comment was for the medium!
almost 9; used a chain or 2, no orphans
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big John  From Chicagoland
8:14 on another run-thru
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Ross  From Oz
Not that tough. Used orphans and unique solution constraint involving left-side 11D.
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willo  From ny
23:24
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Dan  From L.A.
Nada, sort of. Looking at comments it's similar to Mike - recognize that 17A has only 2 cells greater than 3 and look at options. For placement of the 9 in 34D I missed the second option at first, but a mental chain can eliminate one.
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Jimmy  From Scotland
Orphans and me's B!=6, 2019
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Anna  From QLD, Australia
10:10
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