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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 20/December/2014


   
  
 3 
  
 39 
  
 22 
   
 
  12
 6 
     
  
 6 
 
  22
  
         
  
 11 
   
  13
 3 
       
  14
  
       
  
 11 
 
 
  30
  
         
   
  7
  
       
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!
both stuck and bored with this one
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+p+o+ 2 guesses
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Chris +1
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Shabbir+1. I know this is challenging, but I'm still interested in best strategy. 7 in 22D does not appear to be it, although if you happen to guess right, the rest can be solved w/o more guesses. Any other ideas?
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Chris +3. Worthless boring exercise.
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Finally noticed other potentials:
a) only 2 30A cells can be 8
b) 22D must contain 123457 (G>=4 and U>=4). Only one more >= 4.
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possibilities only
I liked this puzzle
took 25 min, though
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Joel +1
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Not trivial - orphans plus heavy reliance on 22A:

1. 22A can't contain 68 or 69 because only 39D can contain 689
2. 22A can't contain 13567 (AE=21, but can't solve 39D)
3. Longest chain was to eliminate 9 in 39D
4. Regardless of 22A, W is the same:
a) if F=8: solve W
b) More...
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Joe, what was your strategy?
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Gave up.
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This one seems to just defeat me. Even with all the hints and lots of guesses, it won't work out.
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Linda, not sure if you were talking about my six steps and if so which ones you want more info on:

Both orphans <= 2. There is a step that I assumed, that people could solve 7A and 9 in 30A, first because of 39D and then 11D.

Step 1: DEH <= 5. If two 22A cells >= 6, G=7 and More...
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