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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 24/June/2010


   
  
 17 
  
 23 
  
 38 
   
 
  24
 20 
     
  
 11 
 
  35
  
         
  
 8 
   
  11
 3 
       
  15
  
       
  
 3 
 
 
  19
  
         
   
  14
  
       
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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difficult but fun
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Reasonably straight forward - the solution is usually in the long runs... Here, 38D has just one set of possibilities (3,5,6,7,8,9) and 23D has two (1,2,3,4,5,8 or 1,2,3,4,6,7). In 23D, B gives you the possibilities for F (think about it) and the two 3Ds will help you get a couple of pairs in the More...
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Not that difficult with orphans
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Yes Rick, one where the orphans really helped!

Lovely pic Eileen!!
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ok, I'll spell out the solution without orphans... [spoiler alert]



















the possibilities in 24A are 7,8,9. 23D cannot contain 9 (or you are left with five squares totalling 14 which is not possible), so B=7or8.

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The only further comment I would make is, once you have solved F, you have also solved B (look carefully at my explanation of possibilities for 23D in the above comment)
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1:58 (With orphans)
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3:57
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What are orphans?
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Jen, orphans are boxes that are isolated in one direction, i.e., are part of an across total but not a down total or vice versa. If the upper left box is A, and you number from left to right, the orphans in today's puzzle are I and R. If you total the down numbers and total the across numbers and More...
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no orphans needed
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4:49
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Thanks, Mike! I suspected the numbers with only one of hz and vz clues where what people meant, but I had no idea that the difference in the total row and column sums could give a clue to them.
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854 used orphans but don't think necessary
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5:22
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easy no need for orphans
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12:10 - I shoulda finished much quicker;
groggy (almost 1 a.m.)
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7:16 2nd time thru
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it's very easy when you see that U<>6
I didn't even exclude 1&2 from T 1 of my 4 or 5 times doing this puzzle - practice makes perfect!
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it took me 1:37 (!) starting from the possibilities and eliminating 6 from U and 789 from 2 of the squares of 38D (G & Q or just Q)
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Straightforward, 2021.
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