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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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Hard Kakuro for 11/July/2012


   
  
 36 
  
 6 
  
 17 
  
 39 
 
 
  26
 17 
         
  33
  
           
  15
  
     
  
 24 
 
  
 14 
     
  21
 3 
     
 
  31
  
         
 
  20
  
         
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!
Urgh. I needed a couple of chains to do this one. Not nice.
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not so difficult, orphans and work on 36D
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Stuck
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No orphans, no chains. It all falls into place if you work on the bottom 2 rows for a bit.
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HINT:
there's a 7's cross
use orphans
you can get 36D eliminated to
89
67
56
12456
89
123456

and 36D can only be
156789
246789
345789

lots of eliminations follow.
Then 20A, you can see easily that XY must be either 28 or 19 and that solves 20A, easy from there




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Choose the right orphans and it all falls into place.There are still 6 choices that can be made!!!!
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No orphans. Got a lot of eliminations done and picked from two possibilities. Orphans probably would have made it easier.
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Agree with John
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Stuck. Could not make Joe's eliminations work. Will try again later.
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took me 12:55 not including orphan calc time
couldn't see any eliminations other than the obvious ones
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Chris, why A be 789???
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why CAN'T A=7?
also, if A<>7, then F must = 7
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I was gonna ask how X+Y==10 (must equal), but I did the work &, voila - you were right! I have a long way to go before I get to where you are, Chris. It was a borderline in-my-head calculation
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I'm with big John. Why is A <> 7?
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5:12
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Thanks for the hints Chris, but stuck at the X+Y=10 like big John, can't see it without a huge chain, 2019
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