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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 22/January/2012


 
  
 17 
  
 16 
  
 21 
  
 39 
  
 14 
 
  31
  
           
  38
  
           
   
  10
  
       
   
  12
 15 
   
  
 16 
  
 12 
  39
  
           
 
  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!
good puzzle, used orphans
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Chris +1
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with orphans and one chain
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Shabbir +1
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Couldn't do it without orphans
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8:39
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needed orphans to find the starting point, but I believe it's possible to isolate the 3 in the 38A w/out the orphans
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Good puzlle, with orphans
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Used orphans.took a chance for 31 across on 98761 which took me all the way to the end only to find out that it was wrong on the last move.So did it with the only other solution and went all the way
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6:24 without orphans
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oops, I chose to try the 5 in 31A and it fell into place - chain or guess?
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2nd time thru about 15 - worked on the 4 in 16D & 39 D - long chain
Joe, you can go along way by eliminating the 9s in the top 2 rows and other similar eliminations
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3rd time thru I tried N<>4 and got a contradiction. Backtracked (save feature not working) and got done in 8:25
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I thought Kakuro was supposed to be logic. Yet it sounds like there is a lot of guessing going on. Is there a way to solve this one without guessing? Can someone point to the first logical number for me? Or is guessing part of the game?

Thanks.
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10:30 without orphans. Noobie - I look for an either/or situation and start a solving 'chain' to see if I can prove a choice of one of the two possibilities either correct or incorrect. That solved this puzzle for me today.

Often when choosing which choice to try first I look for the More...
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Plum,

Thanks for this response. What I take from it is that these hard puzzles don't necessarily have a starting point dictated by logic - so educated guessing is required, correct? If so, I'm less interested because I don't care for guessing games, even if the guesses are educated.

Thanks.
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Orphans and a 50/50 guess on 15D, 2019
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