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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 30/December/2017


 
  
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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!
Stuck.
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Possibilities, orphans and chains (and small chains within larger chains). Not easy.
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-p-o but no nada today. I made an addition error that required a correction but I think nada is there. The 89 crosses solve a lot.
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Lucky solved on first attempt.
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2:55 I am with KS on this one. Guessed that 21D was a straight 1-6 and there wasn't much left to figure out besides the 8's& 9's.
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Nada. You can prove that C=1. The only other choice is W, which makes 23A = 9851, which doesn't work. Then, 2, 3 & 4 in 6D are forced and the rest is easy.
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thanks Mike for your guess free approach! W=1 was not long chain like I thought (problem with 6 in 21D). I like your approach better than my 5-step -o-g-c. Here was my key step to solve 1 in 21D:
(After solving 7 in 24D,) Regardless of X, solve CD:
a. if X>=8: TSV=547, WZ contains 24, CD=17
b. if X<=7: LP contains 89, KGCD=3217
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I'm sure I'm being dense but I don't see how Mike rules out W=1. In what sense does 23A=9851 'not work'? And why not 23A=9761 ?
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I can't answer Willo's questions, but consider W=1, TS=45, LP contains 89 (but can't solve 6 in 21D)
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+p-o, good puzzle
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Agree with Mike and Don
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Believe it or not it's a nada

All about 89 pairs. P and X can't make an 89 pair together because that makes a 6 cell non unique chain with the two lower 18Ds. Which means L must be the other 89.
Then 20A=389 and easy onwards ...
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Don: I apologize for my denseness but I still don't follow. We are trying to rule out 1 in W, so we assume 1 in W. Now you say 'consider W=1, TS=45'. But we could equally well consider W=1, S=3, T=6. So W=1 has (at least) two subcases. You are trying to rule out one of those subcases, but what about the other one?
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Don: Or perhaps my denseness was of a different form. I had thought you were claiming that we could automatically rule out the other case, but I see now that you appear to have been claiming nothing of the kind.
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4:17
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7:01
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Seemed straightforward +p +o. Key for me was seeing C + D = 8 and G + H = 8, but that if you only used 2/3 in C and G, 5 & 6 in D & H, you wouldn't have a unique solution. So that forced C=1, D=7.
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Long chain to prove Aspie's 89 uniqueness, 2021.
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