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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 6/April/2011


   
  
 3 
  
 27 
  
 29 
   
 
  6
 24 
     
  
 8 
 
  19
  
         
  
 13 
   
  30
 4 
       
  13
  
       
  
 9 
 
 
  15
  
         
   
  21
  
       
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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stuck but maybe gave up too soon
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tried again, used orphans, but then needed a chain
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doable without orphans or chains
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716, orphans - good puzzle
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Yep, good puzzle and doable without orphans and chains (my time was 14:46)
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Yes, good challenging puzzle, after using orphans.
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11.38 without orphans - good puzzle.
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any hint for how to do this one without orphans? I can't see it
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No orphans, no chains

Like I often say with these sorts of puzzles, the key is in the long clues, in this case 27D and 29D.

After setting some possibilities, you should have enough in both long clues to consider possible combinations - for example, for 29D, you will see that there More...
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Pretty spot for a picnic
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OK, so here's how it works...
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It is best to start with 29D, but first look at 24D and 13A - it is clear that N must be 7, which restricts the possibilities in 13A and 24D, More...
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5:01 - orphans and a chain
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5:32
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yup, no orphans and no chains, good puzzle
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very good puzzle / very challenging
I started with the 3s.
Once I got down to 1 45 45 23 23 for 15A &
678 for 21A since 27D must have a 9 but not 29D (!), then J=9. Easy after that
This solution took me very long to see, & if you experts hadn't said it was doable without orphans, I probably wouldn't have gone back to find this solution
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Without orphans, but with some work, as kakuroaddict's solution, 2018
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Very good puzzle. Spot the cross of 3 at the top, the proove that 29 has to have a 45 pair
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