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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 6/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!
YUCHHHHH. I never got into a groove on this one. I really struggled. If anyone had an easier experience, please let me know what I missed.
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The key is determining that none of WXYZ can be <5. From there it's pretty straightforward.
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UrBuddie - This is probably NOT the way to do it - but I got there. After the easy 5 numbers, I didn't see anything obvious. I tried what often is not such a good plan - I looked for something easy to show is wrong. In this case - K = 4,5 and 4 was very restrictive, so I showed it was wrong More...
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UrBuddie - I agree. This one is tough. I had a bunch of unsuccessful efforts. Still working on it, but I think guessing will be necessary. Correct placement of the ones seems to be the key. At least, those are the contradictions that keep tripping me up.
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Thanks Kevin. Now I see it.
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Thank you guys!!! Couldn't have done it without you!
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At last!! Would have been much faster if I had used Kevin's hint, but I eventually struggled through to the end, after many guesses/contradictions/backtracks.
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I notice that no one, myself included, is posting a time. That tells you something!
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24:53 With a phone call in the middle. There you go Donna. :)
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7:55
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forever, but all logic
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Middle two rows were key for me:
15A (IJKLM): if K=4, then 10D=2413, 21A=47352, and 15A=25413. But then I can't solve 25D.
21A: If P=3, then 19362, 28D=5986 and 25D=632194. But then I can't solve 15A and/or 26A.
This leaves only 1 possibility for P, then rest is easy.
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Too tough for me, 2019
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