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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 8/February/2012


   
  
 17 
  
 36 
  
 39 
  
 3 
  
 11 
  36
  
           
 
  32
  
         
   
  17
  
       
 
  
 15 
  10
 17 
   
  
 3 
 
  30
  
           
  34
  
           
Choose a number, and place it in the grid above.
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Easy with orphans
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needs orphans
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Yoman +1
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3:06
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Yoman +2
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with orphans
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3:25 with orphans
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orphans unlock
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23:36 Only took 2 minutes to finish the puzzle after I broke down and used orphans.
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yup
tricky even with orphans
10:12 - I need breakfast!
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no orphans, did it twice to make sure.
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Seems to require orphans to avoid chains or guesses.
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Thought I would try and find a non orphan solution. First, W!=6789, because, if it is, then RS=45 and 30A fails. W!=12 either, so W=345.

Armed with that, work on 36D, quite a lot of work but it all falls into place
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The main elimination for me was the 6 from cell N.
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Come on guys and gals, who else can do this one, you can all usually complete kakuros I haven't a scooby how to do. No chains, no guesses, no orphans on this one. Really really easy 4th time around.
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Susie +1, No orphans no chains. Good puzlle
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Yay Luca!
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susie, a bit of work in 36D to get the elimination in N, but after that it all falls into place
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I basically eliminated possibility sets by working pretty much simultaneously on 36D and 34A - I wouldn't have said it's really easy, but certainly no orphans, no chains and no guessing required.
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2nd time through, realised that the elimination at N is easy, otherwise 36D will not work. The bottom of the puzzle then requires just a little arithmetic to finish off, but actually quite easy.
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Thanks Susie, your comments made me persevere - did it with just possibilities, eliminations and logic. Really good puzzle!
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Straightforward with orphans.
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about 8 and I used orphans (late)
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I too did it without orphans - lots of thought
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1:42 in 2018
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I thought it was quite fun, no chains, no orphans, I almost always fill in possibilities, 2019
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4:23
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+p no orphans, it's not that hard, doable nada. 36D has to have a 6 (otherwise cant place 345 and 45 in 39D), and if it has a 6, it has to have 1 or 2, abd there is only one location for that, namely 10A. Then it all falls
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