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Kakuro is similar to both sudoku and traditional crossword games.
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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 24/November/2018


 
  
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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!
Possibilities, orphans and chains.
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Plum: I responded to your comments on yesterday's.
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It is nada!

First fill in both 3D's. Fill in J.

The two central columns contain four 'culprits' under 6 (namely 3,4,5,5). These must appear in 13A, 29A and 16A. If T=4. then S=5, forcing either 13A or 16A to overflow, so 29A contains just one culprit, a 5. If 3 and 4 appear More...
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+P+O
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Difficult Had to us p&o then ok
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Good puzzle, got stuck then used Will's 5/6 tip then the rest was easier
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+p-o, nada seems possible but very difficult
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Thank you, willo, both for considering what was going through my mind about yesterday's discussion and also for posting your solving logic for today's Hard, which I have a question about.

I solved your first three steps same as you: 3D, 3D, J, 'four culprits 3, 4, 5, 5 in 13A, 29A and 16A.' More...
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following yesterday’s posts:
if the hypothetical super human puzzle expert can “see his way” to a solution and claim “nada”, then like any scientific claim, he must publish with an explanation so that the rest can work through the claim and then, in real scientific method, be able to repeat it.
No comprehensible explanation, no nada.
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It's a nice to have. For anybody who just wants to move on after solving it might be a big effort. Having said that, I appreciated the people who did that where, many times, I was stumped, not being the super human puzzle expert. The times when I made use of those explanations mostly I thought More...
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Hmm, I'm sorry, Aspie. I'm not satisfied with your definition yet. I'm not saying I disagree with your assertion that nada should refer to the puzzle rather than the solver. It's just that you haven't yet explained it in a way I can understand.

Here's a problem scenario that jumps to More...
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Plum: The reason you couldn't follow that step is because it makes no sense. I will try to reconstruct what I was actually thinking and will post either a correction or a retraction shortly.
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Plum: Okay, I am relieved to discover that I was *thinking* still seems to make sense, though what I typed was nonsense. Here is the corrected version; please let me know if it seems right to you:


1) Fill in both 3D's and fill in J.

2) The two central columns contain four More...
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1:49
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Orphans and Willo's hints
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Thank you, Willo! I was able to exercise my brain in a new solving direction based on these great steps. My first read through, I got to step 3) and rejoiced at how neatly that pruned the options for 29A. It also made me realize that I had been allowing too many possibilities in X and Y, which More...
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Willo, in case you don't make the jump between paragraphs along with me, while I was considering why KLM couldn't be 435, I realized that, while it could be 435, because of S and T that would leave no remaining value for X, so 16A needs the 5 (so, yes, K=2).
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Plum, if you’re not satisfied by nada = a series of demonstrable, verifiable, repeatable, simple (but not necessarily obvious) steps to solve, then you’re not satisfied by the scientific method.
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Plum: Yes, the problem with having 5,3 as the culprits in 13A is that it forces 16A to overflow. (Given that we've already got a 5 in {N,O}.)
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nada. the 7 and 9 crosses in 38D & 39D force the solution.
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