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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'.
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 5/February/2009


 
  
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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!
To Bob from Denver - The orphan description that you asked for is on yesterdays puzzle comments.
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Today's is pretty straightforward
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thanks UrBuddie. Your explanation was very clear and helpful. Please feel free to share any other stategies.
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5:05
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Bob - Usually if you get stuck on a certain puzzle and you list how you are stuck here, there will be someone that can give a clue. I have done it several times and learned quite a bit. There are some very intelligent and helpful people on this site.
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Since Ur fielding questions, do you know whether all puzzles posted here are solvable w/o guessing?
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4:40
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martyjohns

I believe all puzzles are solvable w/o guessing. Like UrBuddie says, if you get stuck, there's probably someone who can let you in on some handy strategies. If you are new to kakuro, you may be surprised to know that this one is fairly straightforward for a hard.
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Whether all puzzles can be solved without guessing depends on how you define 'guess.'
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3:59
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7:05 I agree with Mike's comment - you can solve all these puzzles through a process of elimination, it just depends on how many steps you can keep track of in your head. Personally I feel that having to use the save/load function to eliminate possibilities is getting into the 'guessing' realm, and I've had to do that on one or two of the puzzles recently.
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Thanks for the answers, folks. You all make fair sense to me.

As I try the next couple of puzzles, I'll see if I can't sort out what I meant by guess.
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7:15 A different layout this time.

Further to Chris's comment: I feel that using the save/load function is just an extension of the process of elimination. You are just keeping track of the steps on the puzzle, rather than in your head. At what stage does it become a 'guess'? I really More...
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9:01 The tiles on the Opera House are amazing close up.
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5:58
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I was surprised to see that my 7:29 wasn't so poor relatively - seemed like a fairly easy hard puzzle / no orphans used here
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13:27 without orphans much later
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1st puzzle the day after Super Bowl 2012, 11 a.m.
11:19 without orphans which probably wouldn't have helped
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good comment, Chris from Perth

I found one of the strategies I've learned from people's comments helpful in this puzzle:
if a number has to be in each of 2 or more lines, you can eliminate that number from other lines. I used this strategy on the 7s in 36A & 27A in this puzzle (which More...
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... that also requires 22D to have a 7.
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6:04 in 2017
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Straightforward, 2019
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