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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/December/2016


 
  
 5 
  
 3 
  
 27 
  
 22 
  
 15 
 
  18
  
           
  22
  
           
   
  3
  
       
   
  13
 4 
   
  
 17 
  
 6 
  24
  
           
 
  21
  
         
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!
+o-p: really easy (my first approach)
-o: can quickly eliminate possibility (very small mental chain)
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+o+p
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nada W=6789, X!=57 then easy
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Nada. Key for me was 27D
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X shouldn't be
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X shouldn't be '7'. Why?
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+p-o, couldn't see the 7's until I put in all the numbers
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+P+O
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ok, X!=7 explained in more detail ....

27D must have, in all combos, at least two of 6789. eIther from the 13A, 24A or 21A. If X=7 then two consequences, 17D=98 in that order and second the 6789 have to come from 13D and 24D - which can't be done (xxxx69 not a solution to 24A)
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addendum: looking at the combo list for the longest complicated number (27D in this case) often gives a good start on what to think on
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7:11, most of it spent overlooking the blindingly obvious.
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Nada. It's all about the 5's and 7's. Study them and realize only on possibility for 27D.
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3:20
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4:18
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Fairly easy to solve 15D, place the 7 in 22D and confirm that the first 5 squares of 27D are 6 or less. That forces W to be 7 or more, and looking at 17D W must be 7 and Y = 8 or their total won't leave enough for the other 3 cells of 21A. Then count 5s, then count 4s to finish off. Sounds like a lot but fairly straightforward.
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Straightforward with orphans, 2021.
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