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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 28/February/2013


 
  
 3 
  
 39 
  
 8 
  
 4 
  
 21 
 
  18
  
           
  20
  
           
 
  8
  
   
  
 6 
   
     
  6
 3 
   
  
 7 
 
  15
  
         
 
  16
  
         
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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couldn't find a way w/o orphans
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found the way w/o orphans, nice puzzle, not too difficult, might even be a w/o possibilities if you can find the way ...
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(start at the top)
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with orphans.To do it without writing down the possibilities needs a very good memory.
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I had to use orphans.
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w/o orphans:

Think about the bottom two rows, they need between them four digits composed of 4456. 7D can only take one of those, so the 39D and 21D cross must take at least three of 4456.

Which means we can only have a maximum of one out of 456 in the top two rows cross with 39D and More...
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Tried again w/out orphans. Doable, but difficult.
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w/o orphans. 8A was the key for me. I tried to follow Chris' reasoning with the 4456 which worked fine on the bottom but lost me in the upper rows. A mental chain worked out 8D and it solved.
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Needed orphans. Chris' solution is nice but I could not find it independently. Maybe I need to learn more about crosses.
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Not too hard without possibilities (but with orphans) and an old memory that's not so great
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with orphans
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No orphans. Long slog but well worth it. Fun!
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solved the h28-2-2010 puzzle w/o orphans which is quite fun. Cheat attached.
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and solved the h28-2-2010 puzzle w/o orphans which was quite a struggle but good fun. Better go do some real work now ...
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should read 2012 .... and solved the h28-2-2012 puzzle w/o orphans which was quite a struggle but good fun. Better go do some real work now ...
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Straightforward with orphans, 2019
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