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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 14/January/2014


 
  
 10 
  
 27 
 
  
 17 
  
 27 
 
  35
  
           
  3
  
   
  6
 13 
     
 
  10
  
         
 
  30
  
       
  
 17 
 
  3
  
   
  15
  
   
 
  18
  
         
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!
No orphans. Very tough.
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I had to use a couple of chains. Urgh.
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Found a chain that solved it - not very satisfying.
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6:41 --- realized from the comments that I'd have to start with possibilities right away. There are just four possibilities for CDE; each of these went pretty fast. Of course without seeing the comments I'd surely have wasted more time before using this strategy.
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Karl +1
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Used a chain (another word for guessing) which worked. Orphans were not a lot of help. Eliminated only one possibility in one square. By the way there were only three possibilities for CDE not four.
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the 1st 27 column was quickly separated into 3 pairs (12, 34, 89). that would definitely eliminate lots of possibilities for me, challenging puzzle though!
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I gave up because of food. I think I had the method worked out, but it was tortuous. There's only a liimited number of confomations of the big numbers in 17D and 27D, 17D can't contain 13 and so on. The interactions between these will probably give the solution, but the work also involves that More...
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over 21 minutes from saved position,
but no orphans!
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Lucky guess
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4:14
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Orphans and still stuck, 2019
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