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Kakuro is similar to both sudoku and traditional crossword games.
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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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Hard Kakuro for 13/November/2008


     
  
 33 
  
 31 
  
 10 
 
   
  24
 10 
     
  
 22 
 
  15
 14 
         
  30
  
       
  
 13 
 
   
  30
 3 
       
  15
  
           
 
  13
  
         
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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I have absolutely no idea how those 2 can figure this one out so quickly. I have 14,13,22 down figured out, but now I'm completely stuck. Other than just making guesses, I don't know what to do. Obviously I've already used the orhpans. I'll check back in case any one wants to leave a clue.
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I'm with you - URBuddie - I find this one a bit difficult. I remember someone posted some 'clues' about a week or so ago - I'm going to reread them and see if it makes any sense.
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with 14d,22d,13d, you have 9s for 30s and 5s for 15s.

13a/31d has a max of 5, any higher would cause column min 678912=33

13a/33d has min 6 (2+5max for other 2), and can't be 9, so 24a/33d is 9. (must have a 9 for column, since no 5s possible and 876432=30)

33d 9876 means 33d More...
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Hi Marvin,

I appreciate your help, but I am still confused. Sorry if I'm dense, but I don't understand the 2nd paragraph. Why does 13a/31d have a maximum of 5? I would think the maximum would be 15? Thanks in advance
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UrBuddie, Kathy, Marvin

Sorry, Marvin, but I could not make head or tail of your explanation. I got to the same point as UrBuddie when I felt a bit stuck. But I resorted to my standard approach - find the non-closed sets (ie a closed set is one in which the number of boxes equals the More...
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by 13a/31d i mean the box at the intersection of 13across and 31down.

Looking at the 31 column
Lowest possible value for the two 15 rows is 1+2, therefore the remaining 4 digits can add up to a maximum of 28. If the bottom digit were a 6 (or higher), than it and the remaining 3 would be 6+7+8+9 (in some order), which is 30 (too high)
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4:37 Pretty straightforward once I realized that 33down had to be 126789, in some order. 22down had to be 589, in that order (orphans add up to 9). 13dwn had to be 85, and so 14down had to be 914, in that order.
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I had missed the limitation of 31d with 13a.

Thanks to everyone for the hints!
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This was hard for me in 2008 but easy in 2010.
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817 - good puzzle
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nice puzzle, using orphans
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No orphans. Not hard when you see the magic square eliminations and discover that all solutions of 31D have 76.
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