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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 4/August/2014


   
  
 39 
 
  
 10 
  
 21 
 
 
  18
 12 
         
  17
  
   
  9
 10 
     
  17
  
         
  
 5 
 
  16
  
         
 
  8
  
   
  3
  
   
 
  13
  
         
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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 and orphans, still no cells to complete. Give up.
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No possibilities, no orphans: Note that 16, 17 and 13 all have 1's in the same three columns, so 3Across must be 2/1, not 1/2. This places the 4 in the 16, so the 4 from 39Down must be in either the 17 or the 13 (it's not in the 18 because that's needed to fit the 8 and 9). Also, the 4 from the More...
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Gah---the first step in the above needs a little more argument, since the 13 and the 16 (or 17) could both have their 1's in the same column.
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Difficult. Gave up.
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orphans, possibilities, and lots of time
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willo...appreciate the self-correction. I still think there is something that'll solve this one but I don't have time.
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Possibly the hardest ever?

Just a long hard slog to get a result
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(note that a 56 in 21D takes out all 56's via H=56.
17A is not x6xx5 variant - breaks 16A
17A is not x5xx6 variant - breaks 13A (via orphans)
so, 17A = 12347 variant.
If D=56 then 16A breaks (no 6's).
A=9 (via orphans).
etc. etc.


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A hard puzzle, possibilities & possibilities,...
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with orphans, similar to Chris' '56' strategy for 21D. Then 9A is the same regardless of Z. Easy after that.
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I give.
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Packed it in. Can't be bothered. Chainy.
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Possibilities + Orphans + Willo logic. However i question the logic for the 1 in the last row.
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13:04 and many attempted =(
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