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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 17/November/2011


 
  
 18 
 
  
 38 
  
 23 
  
 4 
 
   
  10
 8 
       
  20
  
           
  30
  
       
  
 11 
  
 9 
   
  30
 7 
       
 
  15
  
         
 
  10
  
         
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!
Used orphans
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Yoman +1
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Yoman +2, and I needed a (short) mental chain, as well.
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No orphans but 1 trial got lucky
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No shame in using orphans. Once they were in it just flowed.
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1 chain and a quick solve.
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Very good puzzle if you don't use orphans. Takes a lot of time to slowly eliminate possibilities.
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No orphans. First guess on the location of the 3 in 38D and bingo.
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Needed orphans but no guesses.
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No orphans, no guessing - just follow the possible 5s in 15A
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...Oh, and once you find the common point, go from that point and forget the 5s... 20A will need a little thought, but it should be fairly plain sailing
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I am not sure whether my technique is what is frequently referred to as a 'chain'... can anyone confirm?
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2:41 after setup with 1 correct guess
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it went exactly for me as it did for Paul
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maybe a chain is when you save your progress and try a possibility (usually 1 of 2 where you know several eliminations immediately follow (for that starting point of course). the trick then is to remember where your guess was - I've used the undo feature many times because I didn't remember More...
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... if not, barring mistakes, another educated guess should do it - I don't use orphans much anymore, but still spend lots of time on these hard puzzles
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No orphans, no guesses. Not all that hard.
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8:36
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5:44
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over 11 - picked the wrong place for the 4 in 15A and went a long way
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this is a very hard puzzle
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10:02
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(guessed the right value for S)
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3:47 from the saved position with orphans
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With orphans and a short chain / loop, 2019
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Straightforward. There is a spot where you have to choose 3 or 5 in 15A but 5 obviously fails. Then all falls into place
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