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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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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 15/May/2013


   
  
 27 
  
 9 
  
 10 
  
 23 
 
 
  30
 13 
         
  21
  
           
  11
  
         
  
 5 
     
  
 8 
  3
 6 
   
  39
  
           
 
  10
  
         
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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solved 9 cells without orphans or possibilities
put in the orphans
and it can be done without possibilities
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Orphans not required. Possibilities required for me
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I managed to do it w/o orphans or possibilities. The 9D and 10D in the top 30A create a lot of eliminations for 21A
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easy once you work thru the one mental chain
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fairly easy with orphans
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CharlesH +1 regarding the 9D & 10D comment.
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Got the 9 Chris mentioned and am stuck. See you tomorrow.
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Joe +1. No orphans. One you place the 6's in 30A and 39A, analysis of 21A produces all the eliminations.
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I had no computer for 6 months and I've forgotten how I used to tackle a puzzle like this with 4 orphans. I got the first 7 without possibilities then marked up and quickly found the other 2 = 9 obvious fills. I didn't solve using orphans because I forgot how to figure quads. Any help?
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Pretty simple without orphans or possibilities.
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If I were to figure quads:
1. Sum of across is 114, sum of down is 101. Across is +13.
2. Max value of 21A orphan is 6,
3. Max value of 39A is 9.
4. 15 minus 2 is the only way for the quads to be 13.

Conclusion: orphans must be 6, 1, 1, 9 (top-to-bottom, left-to-right)

Important Note: Not all quads would be this easy.
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over 8 1/2 - I finally discovered the 4s...
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from the 9 cells, eliminate 7 from A a la Charles H
then eliminate 5 & 6 from F,G,H,I
quad of 4s in 2nd and 6th rows ...

no one else saw the 4s ??
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Big John, how did you eliminate 5 and 6 from F?
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I used the orphans and then everything falls out ala Chris and Shabbir.
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Paul...if you eliminate 7 from A (by noting if A=7 then B=8 and C=9 would both require 1's in G&H), then A and R are 89 which requires the rest of 27D be a combo of 1234.
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Thank you me. So obvious now I wonder why I missed it. That would pretty much have solved it.
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Redid it with me's hint and no orphans or possibilities required.
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CharlesH +2
No orphans or possibilities. Good puzzle
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No orphans, no possibilities. Good puzzle.
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Good puzzle. Only one mental chain.
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Paul, like 'me from here' said. but
I couldn't remember that one this morning!
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1:52 from the saved position using the 7 & 4s
eliminations next morning
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3:52
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Straightforward, as per me's strategy, 2019
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