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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/September/2009


   
  
 22 
 
  
 30 
  
 21 
 
 
  15
 4 
         
  5
  
   
  7
 12 
     
  18
  
         
  
 4 
 
  17
  
         
 
  8
  
   
  7
  
   
 
  27
  
         
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!
2:13 easy!
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I must have missed something towards the end - I filled in about 2/3 of the grid easily, but then had to use orphans to finish (already had one orphan, but needed to calculate the other). But it was very straightforward.
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same here, needed the orphan to finish. Alternative to orphan was to do a chain contradiction which also led to the unique solution
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4:50 straightforward
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2:45
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2:40
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I found it very easy. No orphans needed. If you start with 30D, it fills in obviously, and then most of the rows simplify, making the bottom row easy. Then the required placement of the 4's fixes everything else.
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I was just wondering who decided 'using orphans' was a crime or cheating? It's a clue to solving the puzzle, sometimes a powerful clue.
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What's an orphan?
And how do you come up with the row numbers (i.e., 30D)?
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Bette,
These are not row numbers but square numbers. You start at top left with 'A' going right then down. the 30D is the cell number D (first row) in the column that adds to 30.
Orphans are squares that are not part of a row or column sum.
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3:15 - pretty easy
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09:04 20090904
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4:05 - Straightforward / easy
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4:56
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225, same ol', same ol'
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2:08
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easy without orphans
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6:15 with late orphans
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Straightforward easy variant on Sw30D, as it came to be known, 2019
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