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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 7/June/2016


 
  
 7 
  
 39 
  
 10 
  
 5 
  
 21 
 
  19
  
           
  28
  
           
  8
  
         
  
 6 
     
  
 3 
  3
 6 
   
 
  15
  
         
 
  16
  
         
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!
+p+o
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+p +o and stuck.
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+o-p, haven't found easy -o approach yet
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+p, chains.
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6:43 using orphans and possibilities
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+p+o, didn't have the heart to try w/out orphans
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A solution with orphans but no need for possibilities:

1) By orphans, B and G are 8 and 9 (in some order), so (to make first two rows add up), A+F+E+J = 15.

2) A+E is either 5 or 6.

3) If A+E=5, then (by 1)) E+J=10. Then A/E=1/4, so L=6, and E/J=4/6, so V=6, More...
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Possibilities, orphans and chains.
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Didn't want to use orphans and could not solve it without them.
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I missed the 3s cross for the longest time
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willo, how did you conclude step 2? also, step 3 is at least a mental chain.

my +o-p-c approach:
1. Pre-orphan: 3x in TUYZ, GHJ >= 5
2. Post-orphan: solve 5 in 39D, 46 in 16A, then rest of puzzle (top or bottom half can be next)
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Willo, nice solution. After your steps 1,2 - a 4's cross appears in first two rows, then all falls out easily
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+o
3's X in 15A, 16A
by Willo's steps 1,2 - 4's X in 19A, 28A. 19A=12349.
need 4's X in 16A, 15A, so 6D=24. Gives 2's X in 16A,15A so solves 3A=12. solves orphans=26. etc.

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oh, it's nada. using Willo idea steps 1,2 and the 3's X, then 19A, 28A must have 4's X and the top solves without need for the orphans.
Then, Y=6 by unique rule and all falls out.
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Don: Step 2 is because the 4 from 7down must be in either A or E, and the other must be either 1 or 2.
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Aspie: Nice, but to me the unique rule feels like cheating. (To each his own on this issue of course.)
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Willo, Y=6 by unique rule is just my lazy quick solve; the bottom half also solves easily without unique rule. For example if Y!=6 then all the 12's come out of the short 6D, which is impossible; no doubt there are other simple ways to proceeed.
So, thanks to your top row addition method, it is nada.
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thanks willo
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+p+o thanks willo
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I will skip, doesn't sound like my kind of fun, 2021.
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