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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 12/May/2013


 
  
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Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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stuck
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yeah, well, after chaining once this is fairly straightforward ....
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just to say, following on yesterday's discussion, the only thing I am in competition with here is the puzzle, if it plays well, it gets congratulated, if not, I criticise it. Solutions I like to find by heuristics and brainpower and logic and not anything either brute force or guessing. The best More...
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Have to check pool before diving in..
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Chris(2) +1. Looks hopeless & needed to chain --- but falls out easily (at least is you pivot on whether Z==6 or not).
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Karl, I chose a different 6, but I think the puzzle depends on the bottleneck between 5's and 6's. Those seem to be the key but I'm not sure where to begin to look ....
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Picked the 5 in 22D and got lucky. Not a satisfying solve. Didn't really solve it.
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Like Paul, I also correctly picked the 5 in 22D. Later, I discovered it was easy to eliminate 5 from any other 22D cell.
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Don, how did you eliminate it from T?
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good puzzle, no orphans
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Pretty easy without orphans I thought.
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Got it at last. Just think about the 5's and 6's, they are the key.
The puzzle has a 5,6 bottleneck.
Whichever of the two cases where the 5 goes in 22D (J or T), both I and S=6. That solves 7D and the lower 12D. And it all falls into place after that. No need for orphans.
Good puzzle.
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or, an even simpler bit of logic. the bottom two rows must contain one 5 and two 6's. If T=5 then you can't get two 6's into any of the remaining cells of those bottom two rows. J=5 QED. And easy thereon.
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I can't see it, Angelo - 10:13 2nd time thru
with orphans!
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Solved it but not in a satisfying way.
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Orphans didn't help much so used the 5s 6s hints, 2019
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