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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'.
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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/2022


 
  
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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!
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No o or p but had to fix a mistake so not nada.
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+p
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Here is a solution that uses orphans only for Step 1:

1) Orphans leave only one place for 3 in 38A.

2) 8 in M is impossible: It forces two 4's in {R,S,W,X} and two 9's in {S,T,X,Y}, so 12D is 7/5, so 15D has neither a 9 nor a 7, contradiction.

3) Now can fill in 10A and C. More...
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+p, tough one
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Try no 7’s in top two 39D, then:
6x, 31A is 16789, next two 39D=89 which is not possible (6’s).

Therefore 7 in top two 39D and solves.
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nada but it involved a guess.
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Prove U =4 and then you can get nada.
If you guess it’s not nada Mike, sorry.
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Aspie: How did you rule out N=7?
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I agree with Anne that if you make a guess, it is not nada. But if you make an unjustified assumption and don't realize that it was unjustified, then you might claim a nada. An unjustified assumption and a guess superficially look very similar.
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Willo, do you mean why not O=7? I think I knocked that one out as Step 1. Sorry!
O!=7 because: by the same reasoning above 10A=28, forcing the bottom two in 39D=49 and a 9x and a 4x. The 4x forces a 7x and impossible condition 15D!=69 and 15D!=78
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'If you guess it’s not nada Mike, sorry.'

We've been telling Mike for years that he's mostly a guesser (trial and error).
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not bad nada on a redo
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Orphans and a chain / 50:50 ball / guess.
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