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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'.
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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 17/January/2012


 
  
 6 
 
  
 39 
  
 38 
  
 12 
 
   
  23
 14 
       
  22
  
           
  27
  
       
  
 17 
  
 21 
   
  29
 17 
       
 
  35
  
         
 
  19
  
         
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!
Seemed to be very tricky first, but actually this solves quite nicely
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got five cells (agree Yoman about tricky), then had to use orphans
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Can be done without orphans
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Same as Chris
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took 2 chances without orphans
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over 26 with chains
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over 12 with orphans and a couple chains
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eliminate 7s from 2nd and bottom rows
Y<>3; H=3
I=4; X=4
G,M=8
to the end
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was what I shoulda started that with
it still took me about 10, which isn't too terrible for me on a difficult puzzle
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Fairly easy without orphans once 7s eliminated (as per big John).
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great puzzle w/out orphans. took me a bit to realize that eliminating 7s was the way to go
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Tried again, Big John +1
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good puzzle
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I really struggled with this one. Orphans weren't a lot of help. Narrowed the choices but that's all. Picked a chain and it worked.
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Good puzlle, with orphans
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by what logic can 7s be eliminated? Struggling here. Thanks.
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noobie, 29A and 35A have to have a 7 in each. 21D can only account for maximum one of those 7's, so the other 7 must be in the square formed with 39D and 38D. There's another 7 where the last two intersect with 27A. Gives an elimination cross.
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Thanks.
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6:15
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straightforward, without orphans or chains, using 7s, then 6s, then 5s.
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Straightforward with the 7s, thanks big John, 2019
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Nada, starting with 7s and then seeing that 23A & 19A each have a 6 in the center columns, which forces V=6 which puts the 5s in 29A & 35A into the center columns and forces Y = 4. The rest flows from there.
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