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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/October/2011


 
  
 9 
  
 25 
 
  
 17 
  
 33 
 
  15
  
           
  14
  
   
  14
 28 
     
 
  29
  
         
 
  10
  
       
  
 17 
 
  12
  
   
  12
  
   
 
  34
  
         
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Pretty difficult. Had to work hard to figure out just three cells. Then used a couple of chains to solve. Not very satisfying.
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Good puzzle. 2 hard days in a row.
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8:05 - tough
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Still good that I'm not hung up on the completion thing.
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Needed orphans and a long chain to solve E. Good puzzle.
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Managed to do it without chains, but I spent a long time making single logical eliminations until I finally got it.
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Did it without orphans and fairly quickly. Thought it was really easy compared to yesterday. The key is to look at the possibilities for 25D and 33D as related to 34A.
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Orphans and 2 chains
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Will somebody please tell me what a chain is?
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Paul, a chain is when you make a guess, remember where it was, and then keep going from there. If the puzzle locks up you know your guess was wrong, so you go back and start again from there. (You probably want to save the puzzle before you guess!)
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Forever. But finally solved. Still hoping one of you nice folks will tell me what a chain is.
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Thanks Cheryl. I've been calling that trial and error. Save first then undo when I hit the wall. Thanks.
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I call that trial and error too Paul!
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Paul,I think a chain is when you decide that a combination is for example 1 2 3 6 for 12.so you try it and if proven wrong then you go with 1 2 4 5

I used orphans and tried a chain successfully.
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this one seems particularly difficult.
I like your definition of a chain, John, and I've started using it (or perhaps am looking to chains more lately (1-18-12) as it seems to enable more eliminations). I just spent over a half hour on this puzzle and am going to reset and try the chain technique because my (3) single eliminations were each very long
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yet another half hour plus session til 9:40 a.m.
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15 minutes
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Didn't seem too difficult, just eliminations.
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Can't be bothered with another guessing one, 2019
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