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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 29/March/2012


   
  
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Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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orphans and a bit of work again
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Chris +1
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Chris +2; a bit more than a bit.
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Orphans don't help me.a lot of work but no chains
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no orphans or chains
I just worked on 34D and 25D and kept eliminating
took 7 minutes, though
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tough without orphans - you used chains, right, Joe?
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yough one the key was the 9 in 34 down
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22:44 without orphans. Just slogged through trying eliminations then chains.
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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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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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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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Joe +1,
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Mike +1
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2:50 no orphans, no chain
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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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oops, that comment was for the medium!
almost 9; used a chain or 2, no orphans
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8:14 on another run-thru
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Not that tough. Used orphans and unique solution constraint involving left-side 11D.
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23:24
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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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Orphans and me's B!=6, 2019
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10:10
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