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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/March/2014


 
  
 9 
  
 26 
  
 14 
  
 13 
  
 23 
 
  35
  
           
  17
  
           
 
  3
  
   
  
 9 
   
     
  3
 8 
   
  
 9 
 
  15
  
         
 
  34
  
         
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!
Orphans not required
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well, orphans are not required if grids are built, can't see an 'easy' no orphans solution
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I used orphans and still struggled.
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I had the same experience as Paul.
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Paul + 1
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Used everything and grinded it out.
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No orphans approach
1. 34A
a. Only one place for 9
b. If W=6: Force bottom 3 rows and E=6, but can't solve 26D.
c. If X=4, can't solve 15A
2. If D=9: force 14D and K, but can't solve 17A and/or 26D.
3. Rest of puzzle was easy
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Don, 1b == chainy (very)
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No orphans but tough!
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Paul +2
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Chris +1. No orphans but very chainy; doesn't count as a logical solution.
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Redid it again w/o orphans or chains. This time is was easy.
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revisited this puzzle in 2015, this time w/o orphans or chains:
1. Solve 9 in 34A
2. Regardless of 35A (xx98x, 8xx9x, or 8x9xx):
a) 9D is 72 or 81
b) any 5 in 26D must be in B or G
3. Solve 5 in 15A, 34A, other bottom half cells, and E
4. For all 35A possibilities (see work More...
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Don: It took me a while to understand this, but now that I do, it's great.
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