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How to play Kakuro
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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Still looking for more puzzles? How about a variation on sudoku? Try Wordoku. Wordoku uses letters instead of numbers and has a hidden 9-letter word! For crossword puzzles, try Free Crossword PUzzles. 2 free crosswords (Easy, Hard) daily.

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Hard Kakuro for 1/January/2017


     
  
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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!
+o-p (after 7 nada cells)
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Easy with possibilities and orphans.
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easy with orphans couldn't do w/o
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+o but chose the wrong combo for 31D and had to reset.
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p+o
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+O
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-o+c (one chain disproves YSL=431, another chain disproves YSL=432). After that, -p.
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+p+o
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Orphans - the 2 or 4 (quads) squares that are only in the across or the down but not both. If you take the difference of all the across and the down, the orphans will add up to this number.

Possibilities - simply writing down the possibilities vs keeping it all in your head.

Chains More...
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Glossary: 'Unique solution rule' refers to the fact that each puzzle has only a single solution. The means two squares in the same row cannot have the same values as two squares in another row in the same column. Example: If two squares in a row are 98, the two squares in the row immediately More...
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'Illegal quad' refers to four squares that would violate the unique solution rule; i.e., the two lower squares in Mike's example cannot be 8,9 because that would result in an illegal quad.
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Letters in comments refer to the 26 individual cells, A is the leftmost cell in the top row, on down to Z in the lower right.
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+ or - refers to the methods the user employed to get to the solution: +p -o means I used possibilities, but not orphans. Nada means the user was able to solve by logical eliminations alone.
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Sorry to duplicate Joe's definitions - I didn't click on the 'More'.
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17:30
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Straightforward with orphans, 2021.
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