Kakuro Puzzles

used +p, nada looks difficult

Stuck.

Solved

Aspie + 1

Nada.

Spoiler alert:


Key is the 7's cross in the two bottom rows.

Boka + 1. Sorting out the 456 in 21D was my key.

+p, saw Boka's 7's after filling it in

It's nada:

1) Fill in K.

2) Six blocks in upper left add to 28, so 4 blocks in upper right add to 25. E and J include a 6 and an 8 or 9. So D+I=10 or 11.

3) Must be a 7 in S or X, so none in D or I, so from 2), {D,I}={4,6} or {5,6}. Either way, no 6 in S or X. So 6 in More...

pretty easy

yes, of course nada by 7x
21D is 21xxxx in that order via unique rule btw

Thanks willo would never have been able to do it without your help, which also took me a long time to work out

+p

Boka - thanks for the key. Willo, can you explain how you figure sectional sums?

Plum: The bottom four entries in 21D are all at least 3, so the top two are {1,2} in some order.
So the six squares in the upper left are enough to make 17D, 8D, and another 1+2. That's 17+8+3=28.

The two first rows add to 26+27=53; of the ten squares involved, the six in the upper left add to 28, so the remaining four add to 53-28=25.

Etc.

Aspie: Yes, you can get the order of the 2/1 in 21D by using the unique rule, but I'm extremely averse to that.

It seems to me that if you allow the unique rule, you have to allow guessing --- because if I happen to guess the solution to the puzzle, then, by the unique rule, there can be no other solution, so I'm done. But I don't want to allow guessing, so I can't allow the unique rule.

Willo, good logic. But I don't allow myself to guess in the first place, so the first step (if I happen to guess) can't happen

if you put the 7s cross together with a 6 and an 8 have to go in each if the top 2 rows AND 1 of those rows has to have a 9, A=9 ...